Alec Baldwin Apologizes for Homophobic Slur

Baldwin says he will 'retire' term from his vocabulary

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Actor Alec Baldwin has publicly apologized for angrily pursuing a paparazzi photographer outside his New York apartment Thursday morning and using an anti-gay epithet.

“Get away from my wife and the baby with the camera,” Baldwin is heard saying in a video of the incident posted by TMZ. He used the lewd language right before he got into his car with his family.

Later that afternoon, Baldwin, 55, tweeted about encounter. “Anti-gay slurs are wrong. They not only offend, but threaten hard fought tolerance of LGBT rights,” he wrote. Afterward, he added he would “retire” the offending term from his vocabulary.

This week’s instance is just the latest in Baldwin’s lengthy history of using homophobic language. In June, he called a reporter a “Toxic little queen” for saying his wife, Hilaria, had tweeted during the funeral of actor James Gandolfini.

[CBS News] [TMZ]