Hilaria Baldwin was spotted on Friday riding horses and going shopping in the Hamptons, just one day after her husband denied firing the gun that killed a cinematographer in his first sit-down interview since the fatal shooting.
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin have been seen in the upscale Long Island community - where the two own a home - several times since he has come under fire for shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his western film, Rust, at the end of October.
They have previously been pictured enjoying some time at a park in the Hamptons, where they would kick around a soccer ball with their six children, and enjoy a picnic.
But on Friday, Hilaria, 37, was seen in photos without her husband and kids, loading errands into the back of a black Cadillac Escalade and galloping around one of the Hamptons wide-open spaces on a horse.
She sported a metallic gray winter jacket, a sweatshirt, black UGG boots, leggings and some large sunglasses in the brisk but sunny weather on Friday.
It was unclear whether Alec Baldwin, 63, and their children were in the Hamptons with her, but the two had been seen the day before loading luggage into their car.
Hilaria Baldwin was pictured running errands in the Hamptons on Friday, wearing a metallic gray jacket, a sweatshirt, leggings, a pair of black UGG boots and some large sunglasses
She was also pictured enjoying some of the brisk weather as she rode a horse around one of the East End farms
Hilaria, 37 was joined by a dog as she roamed around the wide-open spaces on her horse
Hilaria had previously been pictured in the Hamptons with her children and her husband, embattled actor Alec Baldwin
Just one day before, Hilaria and Alec Baldwin were seen grabbing coffee at the Madman Espresso in the West Village, a favorite haunt for the couple, as Baldwin kept a sullen look, dressed in all black, while Hilaria wore electric metallic leggings and a golden-colored Moncler vest priced at $1,900.
The Baldwins had also been spotted earlier in the day taking a stroll with their infants in the Manhattan streets.
After the coffee break, Baldwin carried suitcases and packed them into his SUV before going home.
It now appears the couple was packing for another weekend trip to the Hamptons, as they prepared for the fallout from Alec Baldwin's sit-down interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, in which he seemed to insist that he did not shoot the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin were spotted grabbing coffee near their New York City apartment just hours before the actors interview with ABC was set to air, where he discusses the deadly Rust film shooting
The pair can often be seen grabbing coffee at the Madman Espresso. They are pictured on Thursday waiting for their order
Hilaria Baldwin is glued to her phone as the couple walk their children near their Greenwich Village home
Hilaria was dressed in electric metallic leggings, high heel boots and a golden-colored vest
In the interview, which aired Thursday night but was pre-recorded, Alec said that he was devastated by the shooting, and frequently broke down in tears. But he insisted he bore no responsibility for Hutchins's death, because he did not bring live ammunition on to set, and so he did not feel any guilt.
He also maintained that he did not pull the trigger on the handgun and that it just 'went off' while in his hands on the set of the movie in New Mexico on October 21.
'I let go of the hammer, bang. The gun goes off. Everyone is horrified. They're shocked. It's loud,' he said.
He also revealed that in the moments after the shooting, he did not realize Hutchins had been hit, saying he originally thought she had fainted or had a heart attack, and it did not occur to him until around 45 minutes later that it could have been live ammunition put in the antique prop gun for their Western film, Rust.
'They kept saying, she's stable - just as you disbelieve there was a live round in the gun, you disbelieve it's going to be a fatal accident,' Baldwin told Stephanopoulos.
'At the end of my interview with the sheriff's department, they told me 'we regret to inform you she didn't make it,' they told me then and there.'
He added: 'That's when I went outside and called my wife.'
But, he said, he has been told by police 'in the know' that it is 'highly unlikely' he'll face criminal charges.
'Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can't say who it is, but it's not me.
'Honest to God, if I thought I was responsible I might have killed myself. And I don't say that lightly.'
Dave Halls, the assistant director who was watching, confirmed Baldwin's account, through his lawyer.
Alec Baldwin, 63, spoke to George Stephanopoulos for an interview which aired on Thursday
It was his first time opening up publicly about the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (pictured)
He said that after the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office told him Hutchins didn't survive, he went outside and called Hilaria
The next day, Hilaria took to Instagram to lament that Alec's involvement in the shooting death of Hutchins meant she had 'lost my voice in this giant cyclone', vowing that she would not let the tragedy affect them or their relationship.
In a gushing tribute to her husband - which critics immediately seized on as insensitive - Hilaria provided a deeply personal account of how the October 21 tragedy had affected her.
'I lost my voice in this giant cyclone of modern day media, social and 'news',' she wrote on Instagram.
'I stopped speaking because of fear. You always encourage me to speak, use my voice, stay true. You were right and continue to inspire me.'
She mentioned the now infamous photo of Alec Baldwin talking on the phone outside the set of Rust, apparently, as Alec said, to Hilaria.
In her post, Hilaria considered that evidence of their close bond.
'I am here, I love you, and I will take care of you.' These were the only words that came to me when we learned Halyna had died,' she wrote.
'I remember saying that phrase over and over again. The horrific loss, the torture to her family, and you, my husband, somehow put in this unthinkable nightmare.
'That moment, etched in my memory, photographers surrounding you, on the phone with me, documenting your agony. I couldn't be near you to hug you, our connection over the phone, a visual for the world to see.
Hilaria Baldwin on Friday night posted a photo of her and her husband, with a 450-word tribute and analysis of what they were enduring since the fatal shooting
But many have continued to question Alec Baldwin's version of events since the interview aired on Thursday.
Bryan W. Carpenter, a weapons armorer who works for Dark Thirty Film Services, said he was skeptical that Baldwin never pulled the trigger.
'In order to make it fire, you have to put your thumb up onto the hammer, cock the hammer all the way back, and then as the hammer is completely cocked back, then you pull the trigger and then the gun fires,' Carpenter told Fox News. 'So that's very important because that gun had to have two step process to fire. It had to be cocked and the trigger pulled to fire.'
Carpenter continued: 'Once you cock the hammer back on one of those old west guns, it doesn't take a lot to set that trigger off.'
His comments come after Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza told the outlet that 'guns don't just go off. So whatever needs to happen to manipulate the firearm, [Baldwin] did that and it was in his hands.'
Some on social media were also skeptical of Baldwin's claim that he didn't pull the trigger.
'The only way any firearm is going to fire is if the trigger mechanism is pulled or jolted hard on older weapons. I.E. dropped, banged hard,' tweeted one user. 'Do you truly believe people are so stupid to believe your nonsense?'
'Good grief his "acting" is horrendous,' tweeted another. 'Western style handguns either require the shooter cock the weapon first or don't. Either way, this weapon had the trigger pulled. It wasn't dropped.
'@AlecBaldwin had it in his hands and
