Alec Baldwin makes bizarre claim about Hamptons crash as Hilaria thanks fans for well-wishes

Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria addressed their fans on Monday evening following a shocking car crash earlier in the day.

The 67-year-old actor and his 41-year-old wife posted dual Instagram videos in quick succession in which they clarified that Alec and his brother Stephen were both all right after the collision.

Alec blamed the crash on a garbage truck as big as a ‘whale’ that he said he swerved to avoid after another car cut him off, leading him to crash into a tree in the Hamptons

He was joined in the car by his brother Stephen, and they were pictured with police by the pricy SUV, which appeared to have been totaled in the crash.

‘I just wanted to post a quick message — I got all these inquiries about my car thing this morning,’ Baldwin began a short clip while apparently wearing the same outfit he had on during the crash.

‘I was in a car accident this morning. I’m fine. My brother Stephen was visiting me on Long Island, and we spent the weekend out there for the film festival,’ he continued.

Baldwin interrupted his explanation to congratulate the staff of the Hamptons International Film Festival, where he attended the Chairman’s Brunch with his brother on Sunday. 

‘This morning I was in this car accident. Guy cut me off [in front of a] big garbage truck the size of a whale,’ he continued.

Baldwin took another detour as he described his awe at the size of the garbage truck, which he theorized ‘must have been something commercial’ for hauling away debris from construction sites due to its massive size.

‘To avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I hit a big fat tree,’ he admitted sheepishly. 

‘It crushed my car, my wife’s car. I crushed my car,’ he continued. ‘I feel bad about that. [But] it’s all fine. I’m fine and my brother’s fine.’

He added thanks to the East Hampton Police Department for quickly arriving on the scene and complimented an ‘Officer Gerkin’ for his kind and professional demeanor. 

Baldwin concluded by noting that he was about to fly out to LA to reunite with his family, and he ended with a sweet message for his wife.

‘And I’m still so proud of my wife. Hilaria, I love you more than anything and I’m very proud of you,’ he said.

The 30 Rock actor was previously seen looking disheveled as he surveyed the wreck of his Range Rover after he ploughed it into a tree.

In photos obtained by TMZ, Baldwin and his brother, who is the father of Hailey Bieber, were seen chatting with police as they walked around the smashed vehicle. 

The stressed-looking Rust star — whose wife Hilaria was recently cut from Dancing With The Stars — was seen taking a tense phone call at the scene after the crash, which happened in treacherous rainy conditions on the side of the Montauk Highway, according to the New York Post.

His younger brother was seen snapping photos of the crash scene.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Alec and Stephen Baldwin for comment, as well as the East Hampton Police Department, but has yet to hear back.

Alec’s white Range Rover appears to have crashed head-on into a tree, which completely smashed up the front of the luxury SUV.

In July, Hilaria shared a humorous TikTok video of the two driving the SUV.

In the clip, she lip synced to Christina Aguilera’s What A Girl Wants while captioning it, ‘anytime I have to parallel park.’

Hilaria sat in the driver’s seat posing seductively for the camera just as she was about to park, while Baldwin was next to her in the passenger seat with a grouchy expression plastered on his face.

As Hilaria was about to parallel park, the video switched to an exterior shot showing her and Baldwin getting out to switch seats so that he could finish the parking job for her.

Back in the car, the yoga teacher made affectionate eyes at her husband, who now smiled slightly while bobbing his head to the music. 

Among the photos of the scene was an image of a garbage truck, but its owner told the publication that the truck’s driver was not at fault in Baldwin’s crash.

The Hunt For Red October star was an expected guest at the Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from October 5 through 13, as he is the co-chair of its Executive Committee. 

‘He has been out there all week, he attended films and moderated panels,’ a source shared with Page Six.

Alec’s brother Stephen also works as an actor, though he hasn’t achieved the level of fame and acclaim that his older brother has.

He’s best known for appearing in 1995’s classic thriller The Usual Suspects, but he also had major roles in 1996’s Bio-Dome, opposite Pauly Shore, and in the 2000 sequel The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas. 

Stephen is the father of the model and cosmetics mogul Hailey Bieber, who married pop superstar Justin Bieber in 2018.

He and Alec are part of an acting dynasty that also includes brothers Daniel and William Baldwin.

Alec — who celebrity nearly four decades of sobriety last year following years of drug and alcohol abuse — owns a 10-acre estate on Town Lane in Amagansett, nestled comfortably in the Long Island billionaire’s enclave.

The property, located 100 miles from the actor’s family penthouse in Greenwich Village, features a 10,000-square-foot modern farmhouse, a pool, spa, covered porches and a pavilion.

In October 2021, while filming the Western movie Rust in New Mexico, Baldwin was holding a prop revolver that went off and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. 

Baldwin, who strenuously denied pulling the trigger, faced a charge of involuntary manslaughter that was ultimately dismissed by the judge. 

However the armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of the same crime and sentenced to the maximum 18 months in prison beginning last March.

Rust ultimately had its world premiere at a film festival in Poland last September before opening in the United States earlier this month to a polarized critical response. 

Meanwhile, this January, Baldwin filed a civil lawsuit, accusing several people in the Santa Fe, New Mexico District Attorney’s office of malicious prosecution and civil rights violations after he was charged over the shooting.

Baldwin claimed he had pulled back the hammer of the revolver, not the trigger, but the gun fired anyway.

Director Joel Souza was also injured in the incident.

In the court filing, The Departed star and his legal team accused prosecutors of trying to ‘scapegoat Baldwin for the acts and omissions of others, regardless of the evidence or the law,’ according to the Associate Press.

The case against Baldwin was dismissed in 2024 after it was discovered the prosecution had withheld evidence in the case, and did not share information about or access to live ammunition brought in by a retired police officer who said it could be related to the Hutchins killing. 

The ammunition was filed under a separate case number and Baldwin’s legal team was not notified. 

After the dismissal of Baldwin’s case, weapons supervisor Gutierrez-Reed moved to have her conviction dismissed or to receive a new trial.

In July, Baldwin’s malicious prosecution lawsuit was dismissed by a judge after both he and the defense failed to file any additional documents or make progress on the case for several months.

But Baldwin’s attorney, Luke Nikas, told the Daily Mail that the judge’s decision to dismiss the case was a ‘non-event.’

‘The court dismissed the matter without prejudice because we have been waiting to prosecute the case,’ said Nikas, who is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

‘We have been in good-faith settlement discussions with the parties to the lawsuit, and will be refiling promptly if those discussions are not promptly and favorably resolved.’