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‘She was my friend’: Alec Baldwin breaks silence

Actor tells reporter ‘this is a one-in-a-trillion episode’, in first remarks since fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins.

The actor spoke to BackGrid in Vermont, where he was photographed having lunch with his wife.

“A woman died,” he said. “She was my friend, she was my friend. When I arrived in Sante Fe to start shooting, I took her to dinner.”

“There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this,” Baldwin said. “This is a one-in-a-trillion episode, a one-in-a-trillion event.”

Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, used her phone to film the remarks. But she tried several times to stop her husband from talking.

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