Hilaria Baldwin has revealed she feared something could happen to her family during husband Alec Baldwin’s high-profile trial.
The 41-year-old wife of the Hollywood actor, 65, admits she wrote letters to her children “in case something happened to us” at the height of the trial after previously sharing that Alec was suicidal in the wake of the Rust on-set shooting.
Alec found himself embroiled in a legal battle after he accidentally fired a prop gun on October 21, 2021, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. The unfortunate event took place during a rehearsal at a ranch in New Mexico. In 2022, Alec was charged with involuntary manslaughter, implying that he had caused a death due to negligence.
However, these charges were dismissed in 2023 when new evidence came to light. On the latest instalment of Alec and Hilaria’s reality TV show The Baldwins, the couple returned home after the case was dismissed. Speaking to the cameras, Hilaria admitted: “This is going to sound so stupid but I wrote the kids – that I left here – little letters and hid them. I told my friend where they were in case something happened to us”.
Hilaria, who shares Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo, 4, María, 4 and Ilaria, 2, with Alec, previously recalled: “Carmen asked me last night, ‘ When daddy goes to New Mexico, do I say goodbye to him? Do I say goodbye to him in a special way? ‘]She was so afraid] that when Alec and I go into court that somebody is going to shoot us”.
Despite the case being dismissed last year, Alec still faced a civil lawsuit from Hutchins ‘ family. In March 2023, he and the Rust producers reached a financial settlement with the family. Alec received backlash for not verifying the safety of the gun before using it, given the importance of safety on film sets.
He maintained his innocence, asserting that he did not pull the trigger and that the gun discharged accidentally. Hilaria has now disclosed that she received ‘ heart wrenching ‘ text messages from Alec in the wake of the Rust tragedy. This revelation was made in a recent episode of their new reality show, The Baldwins, which offers viewers an insight into their family life and parenting journey with their seven children.
Hilaria shared some intense personal texts with viewers, revealing: “I found these text messages the other day, between us, you know, the day after. And you know, he said he wanted to kill himself”. She told the cameras about her husband’s struggles:
“He has survivor’s guilt. You’re involved in this thing that nobody could even possibly imagine. And so it goes back to that day. He wishes it were him. He would change places in a second. This has affected his health, and his mental health tremendously.
” The past few years, all of the sudden he started having heart problems. He’s been hospitalized multiple times. He’s fainted… everybody’s just screaming, I’m going, I’m on top, and I’m shaking him. It’s hard sometimes. But hopefully we’re in the hardest, but tail end of it. “
In their intimate docuseries ‘ The Baldwins’, which kicked off on Sunday 23rd February, Alec and Hilaria grapple with the aftermath of the tragic set accident where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins lost her life four years ago – an incident which led to Alec’s trial for involuntary manslaughter, a charge later dropped.
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