Update: Alec Baldwin Facing New Civil Suit over "Rust" Shooting

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Originally Posted by icecream

This four year old case sure is getting rusty.

Yeah, like your "jokes".

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Alec Baldwin Reveals Health Struggles from Stress of Rust Fallout: 'It's Taken at Least 10 Years Off My Life'

Alec Baldwin says he has experienced a number of health struggles in the years since the 2021 incident on Rust that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead.

The actor, 67, appeared on the latest episode of the podcast Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction with host Dave Manheim, reflecting on depression and other health issues he experienced after prosecutors in New Mexico filed involuntary manslaughter charges against him for the second time in January 2024.

"The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids," he said on the podcast.

Baldwin shares eight children under 13 with wife Hilaria Baldwin, as well as daughter Ireland, 30, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

"My kids would see me sitting in a corner, I couldn’t even move. There was a point in time where I took a nap every day for a year, right after they announced they were going to raise the charges again."

“I don’t want to dwell on this, I just want to say that this was very painful for my wife and my family, my sisters and brothers and so forth, my colleagues," Baldwin added. "And I can tell you, it broke every nerve in my body, spiritually, financially, work-wise, my career, my wife, my kids, my friends, my health."

"I mean," he continued, "what it’s done to my health. I mean, if I told you what my health conditions have been since October 21st of 2021 — it’s taken 10 years off my life. It’s taken at least 10 years off my life."

The 2024 involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dismissed with prejudice during his July 2024 trial after a judge ruled that prosecutors sat on evidence that would have helped shed light onto how live ammunition was brought onto the set.

On the Dopey podcast, Baldwin also admitted that he had suicidal thoughts in the months after charges were re-filed against him. Baldwin was at first charged with involuntary manslaughter in January 2023, but those charges were dropped three months later.

"It’s really kind of unappealing to me because to talk about killing yourself and to actually kill yourself are two so profoundly distinctive things. I think a lot of people — I think countless people think about killing themselves and ending their life, and then very few do," he said.

"And for me, I remember, I used to lay there in bed and go, ‘Oh God, I can’t wake up another day and have it be the same. It’s the same every day. And I can’t do it.’ But somehow I found the faith in God to, you know, not kill myself tomorrow. Let’s wait one more day," he said.

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Alec Baldwin Says He Wants 'to Retire and Stay at Home with Kids' After 'Rust' Tragedy

Alec Baldwin is ready to put his acting career behind him and spend time with his family following "very painful" years that surrounded the 2021 shooting incident on Rust that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin, 68, appeared on The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast on Monday, April 13, where he said the time he spent at home with wife Hilaria Baldwin and their seven children under 13 after Hutchins' death has changed his perspective on working. "For me, because of the situation in New Mexico, that was very painful," he told Scott Feinberg, after the host quipped that Baldwin "never stop working or surprising us" at the end of the interview.

"I wound up staying home a lot. I was home with my kids for three and a half years," the 30 Rock star said. "I hardly worked at all. And that's just changing now, I'm going to go off and do a bunch of things, but I was home and I got used to it, and I don't want to leave my house anymore. I don't. I don't want to work anymore. I don't. I really don't. I want to retire and stay home with my kids."

Baldwin shares his oldest daughter, Ireland, 30, with ex-wife Kim Basinger. He married wife Hilaria, 42, in 2012: the couple's seven children include daughters Carmen Gabriela, María Lucía Victoria, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, as well as sons Rafael Thomas, Leonardo Ángel Charles, Romeo Alejandro David and Eduardo "Edu" Pao Lucas.

Baldwin was the subject of a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding Hutchins' death on the Rust film set in 2021. The actor was at first charged with involuntary manslaughter in January 2023, but those charges were dropped three months later. He was then charged with involuntary manslaughter again in 2024, but those charges were dismissed with prejudice during his July 2024 trial after a judge ruled that prosecutors sat on evidence that would have helped shed light on how live ammunition was brought onto the set.

Baldwin offered a glimpse of his experience coping with the aftermath of the Rust shooting in his TLC series, which debuted in February 2025.

“I don't know where I would be if I didn't have her,” Alec told PEOPLE of Hilaria prior to the series' debut. “I don't know what would've happened to me.”

Baldwin's time spent at home with his family as the investigation played out was also covered in a yet-to-be-released documentary titled The Trial of Alec Baldwin, which premiered at DOC NYC in November 2025.

Baldwin shared a peek inside his life with his large family during the podcast. "My kids are all born in Manhattan, same hospital, same doctor," Baldwin said on Awards Chatter. "And my son Romeo was there and we're picking clothes, they're picking out ski jackets back in November. And I go, 'Get that one, get that color. I like that one. Don't just get the black, get that one.' And he looks at me and goes, 'What do you know? You're from Long Island.' "

"And that's my life now, day after day after day after day," he added.

Baldwin most recently appeared on the big screen in a Spanish comedy titled Torrente Presidente, in which he portrayed Donald Trump. He has a number of projects in the works, including a movie titled The Cutting Room Floor, which Deadline first reported in April 2025. Baldwin will also play a fictionalized version of himself in the comedy National Lampoon's Hollywood Hustle, which The Hollywood Reporter reported in January.

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Alec Baldwin is Headed Back to Court over Deadly Rust Shooting
by Derek Lawrence
April 17, 2026


Alec Baldwin's days in court aren't yet over.

The Oscar-nominated actor previously faced involuntary manslaughter charges stemming from the 2021 on-set shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. And while that case was officially dismissed, Baldwin is now dealing with a civil trial over alleged negligence.




Rust gaffer Serge Svetnoy is arguing that he suffered emotional distress after Baldwin fired a gun that turned out to contain a live round, which resulted in the death of Hutchins.

On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maurice Leiter allowed Svetnoy's case to move forward, while also throwing out the allegations of assault, believing that there was no intention of harm from Baldwin.




"As to intent, the analysis is different on this claim than on the assault claim… A reasonable jury could find that Mr. Baldwin recklessly disregarded the probability that pointing a gun in the direction of someone, with the finger on the trigger, would cause emotional distress," the judge wrote in his summary.

An attorney for Sventoy, John Upton, said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly, "We are pleased with the Court's decision to deny the motions for summary judgment brought by Rust Movie Productions and Alex Baldwin. These rulings enable our client to present his case at a jury trial, now scheduled for October of this year. He looks forward to finally having his day in court on this long-pending matter."

A trial date for the latest civil case is currently set for Oct. 12, with the judge reportedly noting, "I'm a little concerned about this case going on and on and on when it should be coming to a resolution."

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