Alec Baldwin Blasts Halyna Hutchins' Family As Money Hungry -- YEESH!
07.03.2022 - 23:27
/ perezhilton.com
Alec Baldwin is NOT doing a good job handling the Rust shooting fallout.
While we wanted to extend the actor some sympathy — obviously, he never intended for Halyna Hutchins’s death and experiencing that kind of one-in-a-million accident is unimaginable — his actions in the months following the shooting have become harder and harder to defend. Most recently, he’s been in a back-and-forth with Halyna’s widower Matt Hutchins, which is such utterly poor taste we don’t even know where to begin.
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Unfortunately, the embattled performer just can’t hold his tongue on this issue, and had to pile on. He spoke more about the shooting at the Boulder International Film Festival over the weekend, and seemingly accused Halyna’s family’s lawsuit against him of being a cash grab (you can see video of the event HERE).
According to CNN, he said:
Wow. In other words, since he’s the rich one, he’s getting targeted? Pretty shameless.
The 30 Rock alum didn’t specify which (of the many) lawsuits were specifically targeting “deep-pocket litigants,” but his comments seem in line with other recent jabs at Matt Hutchins. In a not-so-subtle subtweet, Alec wrote that “being truthful” in Buddhism means “using speech to benefit others, and not to use it to benefit only ourselves.” This came shortly after Matt’s Today interview in which he said:
Objectively, this is not an unreasonable thing for Matt to say about the man who shot and killed his wife — a man who was not only the one holding the gun, but was also a producer of the film. Yet during the moderated event at the film festival, the 63-year-old continued to pass the buck. He stated:
He went on to claim