Alec Baldwin has been in the news all week long, since his alleged stalker Genevieve Sabourin had been in court and was convicted on Thursday. Of course, as with any Baldwin saga, it has included confrontations with the media and in the latest, Baldwin used an anti-gay slur and has apologized for his behavior.
Yesterday, TMZ published a video taken just a few hours after Sabourin was sentenced to six months in jail. A photographer caught him, his wife Hilaria and their baby outside his Manhattan apartment and the actor yelled “c**ksucking f*g.”
“Mr. Baldwin can't lend his support for equality on paper, while degrading gay people in practice,” GLAAD said in a statement to TMZ. “It's clearly time he listens to the calls from so many LGBT people and allies to end this pattern of anti-gay slurs.”
Baldwin then took to Twitter to apologize for his actions. “Anti-gay slurs are wrong. They not only offend, but threaten hard fought tolerance of LGBT rights,” the former 30 Rock star wrote. “I'm grateful to all of the ppl I meet + hear from who recognize that I would never say something to offend my friends in the gay community.”
In another post, he sent a message directly to GLAAD, writing, “Rich Ferraro from @glaad informs me that c'sucker is an anti-gay epithet. In which case I apologize and will retire it from my vocabulary.”
This isn’t the first time Baldwin has had to apologize for using an anti-gay slur. In June, he called a Daily Mail writer a “queen” and then wrote a lengthy letter of apology, which was published by GLAAD. He said that he has supported gay rights and that he would never advocate for violence directed at gays.
As CBS News notes, after he left court earlier this week, Baldwin told a New York Post reporter “I hope you choke to death.”
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