(NEXSTAR) – Actor Alec Baldwin assured his fans that he’s “fine” after crashing his wife’s Range Rover into a tree in East Hampton, New York, on Monday morning.
In an Instagram video he posted that evening, Baldwin told his followers that he wanted to share a “quick message” in response to reports of an incident involving him and his brother Stephen Baldwin.
“I was in a car accident this morning. I’m fine. My brother Stephen was out visiting me, on Long Island. And we spent the weekend out there for the film festival,” Baldwin said, referring to the Hamptons International Film Festival, which ended Monday.
Baldwin said the driver of a large garbage truck “cut me off,” causing him to swerve off the road.
“I mean a garbage truck the size of a whale, I’ve never seen a garbage truck … It must have been something commercial, for like, taking away material from construction or something. It was the biggest garbage truck I’ve ever seen,” Baldwin said.
“Anyway, I won’t go into the details now, I’ll bore you. But to avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I hit a big fat tree.”
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Baldwin said the car, which belongs to his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, was “crushed.”
Alec Baldwin: ‘I crushed my wife’s car’
“I crushed my wife’s car, I feel bad about that. But it’s all fine and I’m fine and my brother’s fine, and blobbity blop.”
He went on to thank the police officers who assisted him after the accident, before again reiterating that his wife’s car is “really smashed up.”
“Big tree,” he said. “Big fat tree.”
Pictures of the accident obtained by TMZ on Monday show Baldwin and his brother speaking with police at the scene. The outlet also published photos of the white Range Rover, its front end crumpled after hitting the tree.