'I just can’t live in New York anymore,' Alec Baldwin writes in a gripe-filled essay in New York magazine, which hits stands Monday. The actor made a similar threat to ditch the city in the Huffington Post five months ago.
Alec to New York: Drop Dead!
Tantrum-prone Alec Baldwin said in a whine-filled New York magazine essaythis week that he’s set to bolt the Big Apple.
“I just can’t live in New York anymore,” he wrote in the cover story of the edition that hits stands Monday. “Everything I hated about L.A. I’m beginning to crave ... I want my newest child to have as normal and decent a life as I can provide. New York doesn’t seem the place for that anymore,” he wore on.
Baldwin cites the ever-present paparazzi and camera phones among his reasons for leaving New York !!!
The paparazzi and ubiquitous camera phones make it all but impossible for him to raise a family in Gotham, the “30 Rock” star griped.
Baldwin made a similar threat five months ago in the Huffington Post, insisting he would disappear from the limelight.
Baldwin and his daughter Ireland arrived at the Primetime Emmy Awards together in September. New York makes it nearly impossible for him to raise a family, he writes in his New York magazine essay.
“L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal,” he explained in the most recent rant. “I used to hate that. But New York has changed.”
Baldwin, 55, who briefly flirted with a run for mayor, defiantly defends himself in the piece from accusations of being a homophobe, which stemmed from his altercation with a paparazzo last November, where he allegedly used an anti-gay slur.
Baldwin was seen with his wife, Hilaria, and their daughter Carmen Gabriela in New York in November. 'I want my newest child to have as normal and decent a life as I can provide,' he writes.
“I’d never use that word,” he insisted, taking jibes at those who distanced themselves in the aftermath, including Mayor de Blasio, “who apparently gets his news from TMZ.”
A lot of Baldwin’s vitriol was aimed at MSNBC, which pulled the plug on his nascent talk show following the altercation with the photographer.
“None of them are funny,” he wrote of the news channel’s hosts, “although that doesn’t prevent them from trying to be.”
He blamed network star Rachel Maddow for pushing for his firing, calling her “a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.”
Baldwin, whose wife Hilaria gave birth to their daughter last year, also wrote of his disdain for the press: “I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.”
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