Alec Baldwin Plans Retirement to Focus on Family

has revealed he plans to retire from acting and stay home with his wife and children in the aftermath of the Rust shooting tragedy. 

The actor, 68, has suffered tremendously in the four years since the  on the set of his film Rust, in which the gun was in his hand.

In the wake of the tragedy, Alec spent much more time at home with his wife Hilaria and their seven children. 

Speaking on The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, the actor told how he plans on making his break from acting more permanent in the future.   

He said: 'For me, because of the situation in New Mexico, that was very painful. I wound up staying home a lot. I was home with my kids for three and a half years.'

'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.'

Alec and Hilaria share Carmen, 11, Rafael, nine, Leonardo, eight, Romeo, six, Eduardo, four, Maria, three, and Ilaria, two. He also shares eldest daughter Ireland, 30, with his ex-wife Kim Basinger. 

The Cooler star was legally cleared in 2024  against him in connection with the shooting.

The 30 Rock actor said that his primary focus amid the years of legal proceedings linked to the shooting was the well-being of his family.  

Alec said that his children caught on to his  as result of the complications .

'My kids would see me sitting in a corner, I couldn't even move,' he said on the podcast Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction. 

The veteran actor said that '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.'

On the podcast, Baldwin ripped the prosecutors in , as he said they 'wanted to get their names in the paper' by moving forward with the ultimately-unsuccessful case against him.

'That's what they wanted,' Baldwin said, referring to fame and attention.

Alec, who faced up to 18 months in prison, added: 'Thank God for this judge who called in on them and said, you know, what you're doing is reprehensible.'

He continued, '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.'

Alec admitted to having suicidal ideations in the wake of the incident.

'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,' Baldwin said. 'I think a lot of people - I think countless people think about killing themselves and ending their life, and then very few do.

'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."'

He added, '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."'

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