Alec Baldwin Claims He's Been 'Fired' From Jobs Due To Fatal 'Rust' Shooting

Actor Alec Baldwin is continuing to speak about how the “Rust” tragedy is affecting his life.

Back in October, a gun that he was holding on the set of the Western film fired. A live bullet struck and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. How live ammunition ended up on a movie set is continuing to be the subject of a police investigation by the Santa Fe police department.

Although the “30 Rock” actor has yet to be criminally charged in the fatal shooting, Baldwin claims that he is afraid for his life because he claims “there is just this torrent of people attacking me.”

In a wide-ranging interview with CNN published on Friday, Baldwin, 65, said that the fatal shooting “has taken years off” of his life and has hurt him professionally. He said that he’s been let go from five jobs since the shooting.

“I got fired from another job yesterday,” Baldwin recalled. “There I was all set to go to a movie, jump on a plane … I’ve been talking with these guys for months and they told me yesterday we don’t want to do the film with you because of this.”

He credited his wife, HilariaBaldwin, for being the main reason he hasn’t stepped out of the entertainment industry entirely. “If I didn’t have my wife, I don’t know where I would be right now … If I didn’t have her, I probably would have quit, retired, gone off, you know sold everything I owned, got a house in the middle of nowhere and just you know did find something else to do, sell real estate,” he said.

He also claimed that he was afraid for his life after former President Donald Trump suggested that he fired the gun on purpose. He says that fear has “taken years off my life,” adding, “There is just this torrent of people attacking me who don’t know the facts.”

During the interview, Alec Baldwin blamed the armorer and props assistant on the film Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director Dave Halls, who was the person that handed Baldwin the gun that contained live ammunition while they were rehearsing a scene in the church. Gutierrez-Reed was reportedly not present at that rehearsal.

"Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better," Baldwin told CNN. "That was [Gutierrez Reed's] job. Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn't supposed to be any live rounds on the set."

"There are two people who didn't do what they were supposed to do," he continued. "I'm not sitting there saying I want them to, you know, go to prison, or I want their lives to be hell. I don't want that, but I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened."

Earlier this month, in a complaint filed by the New Mexico environment department’s occupational health and safety bureau against the “Rust” production company, Gutierrez-Reed claims that she told Halls to tell her when Baldwin arrived for the rehearsal so that she could check his firearm. However, Halls seemingly never notified Gutierrez-Reed that Baldwin had arrived, and just handed the loaded gun directly to Baldwin himself.

"Why didn't [Gutierrez Reed] check that bullet? Why didn't Halls obey her?" Baldwin asked. "Why did he give me the gun? Why didn't he check? Why did he tell the crew [it was a cold gun]?"

Baldwin also openly questioned whether or not it was possible that the movie’s prop supplier, Seth Kenney, was responsible for providing bullets to the “Rust” set. An FBI report released last week stated that at least 150 live rounds of ammunition had been found on the movie set.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has also openly criticized the Santa Fe police department and their handling of the investigation so far, claiming that there are “serious problems” with the way law enforcement officials are conducting their investigation. Her full statement can be read here.