Alec Baldwin sobs as he recalls Halyna Hutchins shooting, thought she ‘fainted’ at first: ‘I would go to any lengths to undo what happened’

Alec Baldwin sobbed as he detailed Halyna Hutchins’ death (Picture: ABC)

Alec Baldwin sobbed as he discussed Halyna Hutchins’ shooting in an emotional interview, vowing he would go to ‘any lengths to undo’ the tragedy.

The 63-year-old had been holding a gun on set of Rust which discharged, fatally shooting the cinematographer and injuring director Joel Souza.

Appearing in a sit-down interview on ABC, he detailed the moment of her death George Stephanopoulos, insisting he didn’t pull the trigger.

‘Halyna and I had something profound in common – we both presumed the gun was empty,’ he began, explaining that they were in a ‘marking rehearsal’.

‘I don’t know how that bullet arrived in that gun, I don’t know’.

Baldwin said she was giving him instructions on how to draw the gun out and hold it.

Hutchins was airlifted to hospital but died of her injuries (Picture: Getty)

Alec opened up about the tragedy in the ABC special (Picture: ABC)

‘So I take the gun and I start to cock the gun. I’m not going to pull the trigger,’ he continued.

‘I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it.’

It was then he released the ‘hammer’, and the fatal shot rang out.

‘The gun was supposed to be empty, she goes down. I thought to myself, “Did she faint?”

It was at the end of an interview with the officers that he learnt of her death.

Baldwin has been cooperating with detectives amid a police investigation into the incident, and has kept a low profile following the tragedy.

He spoke out in the days after the tragedy, expressing his sadness at the incident in a statement on social media.

‘There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,’ he tweeted at the time. 

‘I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. 

‘My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.’

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