Alec Baldwin: Respect My Family and Don't Blame MSNBC

In an online column, Baldwin again denies using an antigay slur in a recent incident, and he begs the public to leave his family alone and to continue to support his network, MSNBC.

Trudy Ring

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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Alec Baldwin is pleading with the public to not take any anger with him out on MSNBC in light of the uproar over epithets he yelled at a photographer last week, and to respect the privacy of his family.

It has been reported that Baldwin called the photographer, who approached the actor and his family near their Manhattan home, a "cocksucking little f****t." Baldwin, whose MSNBC talk show, Up Late, was suspended for two weeks in light of the incident, denies using the antigay slur.

"I never used the word f****t in the tape recording being offered as evidence against me," Baldwin writes in a column published in The Huffington Post Saturday. "What word is said right after the other choice word I use is unclear. But I can assure you, with complete confidence, that a direct homophobic slur (or indirect one for that matter) is not spoken." He also points out his support for marriage equality and LGBT rights in general, and laments that he is now considered a "homophobic bigot."

He goes on to praise MSNBC and says, "Don't allow my problem to be MSNBC's problem," and he also says he fears for his family's safety with so many celebrity-stalking paparazzi around. He and his second wife, Hilaria, have an infant daughter, and he has another daughter with previous mate Kim Basinger.