Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria wrote letters to their kids in case 'something happened' before Rust trial verdict

Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria revealed that the couple prepared for the worst before learning the verdict in the actor's Rust shooting trial, as they have since been slammed by Halyna Hutchins' family. 

On the third episode of their new TLC reality TV series, The Baldwins, Hilaria, 41, admitted that she wrote letters to five of their seven kids as she flew out to New Mexico to support Alec, 66, at the trial. 

Hilaria said she left five of the kids at home with a friend. 'This is going to sound so stupid. I wrote them all little letters, the ones that I left here. And I hid them.'

'And I told my friend where they were if something happened to us,' she added. The Yoga teacher did not explain what she thought might happen. 

Alec and Hilaria share seven children together: Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo, 4, María, 4 and Ilaria, 2 

Alec was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter in January 2023 for the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna.

Baldwin, who was holding the prop gun that discharged on the Rust set, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza, maintained his innocence.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were initially dropped in April 2023. He was later re-indicted in connection with Hutchins' death, but that case was subsequently dismissed. Baldwin has since filed a lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution and civil rights violations.

Speaking of the verdict, Hilaria said: 'This was not a win. This is just an awful thing that happened to, you know, to people. There was an awful thing that happened.' 

'The hardest thing about this is that a woman lost her life. A son lost his mom. Halyna didn't get to go home. And that's what makes everything so painful,' Hilaria added. 

She went on to say: 'We're coming back to something totally new where we just get to make more choices than what we made before. And now we can try to remember how to live again. And that is a dream come true.'

Alec added, 'Just the privilege and the gift of being able to come home, you know, and be with them. My kids are happy. That's all I care about, you know? And you just live one day at a time.'

In the clip, Hilaria and Alec were seen returning home from the trial and greeting their children.

'To come home to these kids, they're so sweet. They're so sweet. And I just was happy. This is my life now,' Alec said.

'After everything we've been through, I said to myself, this is perfect. This is what I'm doing, is raising my kids. And I just feel like it's such a privilege.'

In a previous episode, Hilaria said that Carmen was worried about their safety.

'Carmen asked me last night, "When daddy goes to New Mexico, do I say goodbye to him? Do I say goodbye to him in a special way?"'

'[She was so afraid] that when Alec and I go into court that somebody is going to shoot us,' she added.

She also said how much Alec struggled in the first months. 'I found these text messages the other day between us and the day after he said he wanted to kill himself. He has survivor’s guilt… He wishes it were him. He would change places in a second.'

'This has affected his health and his mental health tremendously. In the past few years, he has had heart problems and, multiple times, he fainted.'

Meanwhile, Alec has been blasted as it has been claimed that he  'never called or tried to contact' the parents or sister of cinematographer Hutchins after he fatally shot her on the set of the Western film Rust in October of 2021, lawyer Gloria Allred said Tuesday.

'Although some of Halyna’s friends and co-workers contacted Halyna’s mother with their condolences after Halyna lost her life on the set of Rust, the man who killed her never did,' the famed attorney, 83, told Dailymail.com in a statement Tuesday.

The Oscar-nominated actor 'never called or tried to contact her parents or sister to say that he was sorry, and to this day he has never taken responsibility for Halyna’s death,' Allred said.

Allred said that Baldwin's new TLC show The Baldwins - showing him and wife Hilaria raising their seven young children - provides a sad juxtaposition in the wake of the fatal on-set shooting in New Mexico more than three years ago.

'The Baldwin reality show at once celebrates Mr. Baldwin’s joy of being with his children while ignoring the fact that Alec Baldwin took a child away from her parents,' said Allred. 'That is the painful and actual reality with which Halyna’s parents and sister live each and every day.'

Allred added, 'Although her family lives in Ukraine, they were very close to Halyna. Halyna visited them in Ukraine and her mother, Olga, visited her in the United States.

'They communicated on the phone and on the internet on a regular basis, and their bond with their beautiful, talented, and loving daughter was a strong and close one.'

Allred spoke out as her clients - Hutchins' parents Olga Solovey and Anatolii Androsovych, and sister Svetlana Zemko - entered a court filing for a deposition this May, People reported after reviewing the filing.

Allred asked the Glengarry Glen Ross actor 'face the real-life consequences that he caused' and 'face reality under oath.'

The filmmakers survivors initially filed the wrongful death civil lawsuit against Baldwin in February of 2023.

Allred - whose career was chronicled in the 2018 Netflix documentary Seeing Allred -  said she wants Baldwin to testify in her New York office in person, 'and his testimony will be recorded on video.'