Hilaria Baldwin revealed the heartbreaking comment her nine-year-old daughter Carmen made about rust tragedy involving her father.
In an interview with MoreThe mother of 7 children recounts her husband and wife’s story Alec Baldwin explained to their children that the actor was involved in Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dies after accidentally shooting prop.
“When [we told the children], Carmen began to say to me, ‘Why are you telling me this?’. ‘I want to quit knowing this.’ She used the word don’t know,'” Hilaria said with tears in her eyes.
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“Alec said, ‘I’d like to not know that too.’ I think everyone wants to not know that, and we can’t because it’s true,” she added.
Earlier in the interview, Hilaria said telling her children about the tragedy was one of the hardest things the couple had to do as parents.
“There’s no way you can explain this because it’s horrible. It’s horrible,” she said.
“I thought I’d do this without Alec and he said, ‘No, I can’t be cowardly. I have to be there’.”
The couple are parents to Carmen, nine, Rafael, seven, Leonardo, six, Romeo, four, Eduardo, two, Maria, one, and their newborn daughter Ilaria.
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Hilaria, a yoga instructor, explained that her husband wanted to continue the project and finish the film because tragedy was so inevitable.
“We can go ahead and talk about gun safety on set, and try to figure out how this crazy thing happened, and we can go ahead and honor Halyna,” she said.
“We can remember her, continue her legacy for her, for her family, and we can care for those who are still here, who have been hurt so badly by This terrible tragedy. That’s all we can do, but we can’t help but know it.”
Hilaria also admits that this event has shaken her husband and that she is constantly worried about him.
“When you’re going through something difficult, you know that no day will ever be the same,” she said.
“You have very difficult moments in the day. Nights are hard, nightmares are hard. So I just stay there and say, ‘I’m here and I’ll take care of you,’ and I said that. from the moment we realized what had happened.”
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