14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Baldwin wants you to know that he's not against gays and he's also tired of public life… again. The actor has penned a bitter yet seemingly candid essay which was published by Vulture, in which he describes just how awful 2013 was for him.
The actor takes a swing at just about anyone or anything that angered him in this last year, including MSNBC, Rachel Maddow and Shia LaBeouf. He seems to be longing for public approval, as his lengthy piece tries to explain in detail some of his latest antics and seek forgiveness.
He reveals how going off on Shia LaBeouf cost him his return to theater, how his talkshow was wrongfully moved to MSNBC when he wanted it to be on NBC and how, in November, he was labeled anti-gay for shouting a gay slur at a photographer.
Maintaining that he was never anti-gay and that he even has friends who are gay, the actor goes on to retell the entire incident when he chased a TMZ photographer while shouting obscenities at him and something of a gay slur might have escaped him.
Finally, Baldwin reaches the conclusion that he will move out of New York and back to Los Angeles in order to be able to better quit public life, “I've lived this for 30 years, I'm done with it. I probably have to move out of New York. I just can't live in New York anymore.”
He continues by explaining the beneficial aspects of living in a place like Los Angeles. “Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that. But New York has changed,” he confesses.
The only good thing that happened to Alec in 2013 was the birth of his child, and now he says that it's in the child's best interest for him to move from New York to LA, “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.”