Star says he’s done with Twitter for good, would leave showbiz too if he could

Jul 4, 2013 13:27 GMT  ·  By

Alec Baldwin got himself into a lot of trouble a few days ago after apparently using Twitter to make nasty homophobic comments about a journalist who claimed his wife Hilaria had live-tweeted James Gandolfini’s funeral.

After the rant, Baldwin shut his Twitter page down and, he tells Vanity Fair in a new interview, he has no intention of ever bringing it back up online.

Moreover, he’s considering retiring from acting, he reveals.

“I’m having a baby. And everyone has seen how certain things have played out with my daughter, which has been very painful—it’s been really unpleasant. That has consequences, and I do not want that to happen with my next child,” he says.

Alec dreams of the day when his daughter grows up and knows nothing of him as a public person. That would be great, he says.

So, back to the question at hand... Would he quit acting?

“I’d love to if I could, yeah. That would be the greatest thing in the world,” Baldwin says.

In other words, this isn’t going to happen anytime soon.