He hurled insults at a Post photographer on his way into court – and even offered the shutterbug a death wish on his way out — but hotheaded Alec Baldwin reserved his best emoting for the witness stand.
The rage-filled, former “30 Rock” star appeared to choke up on cue, dabbing at his eyes with a finger, as he described a March 2012 encounter with accused stalker Genevieve Sabourin shortly after his engagement to his wife, Hilaria.
“I got home the day of getting engaged to my wife [and] the defendant pulled up to my house in a car,” he said in Manhattan Criminal Court of Sabourin, the shapely French Canadian woman who claims Baldwin dumped her after a steamy affair.
“It was a rainy day … my wife and I were sitting in the living room… She started to get out of the car and [I] held up my hand to say wait,” Baldwin testified of the encounter outside his East Hampton pad.
“My wife was worried and I was worried this very thing would happen,” he said, wiping his tearing-on-demand eyes and dramatically pausing as if to compose himself.
“I told my wife not to come to the door I didn’t know if she had a gun or a weapon and I called the police,” Baldwin said.
“Why is he crying?” Sabourin mockingly asked, one of numerous courtroom outbursts from the zany blonde that at one point led the judge to threaten to hold her in contempt.
The movie star-turned- MSNBC host said she also appeared at his East Village home and when he and Hilaria were at a film screening at Lincoln Center, where he asked a security guard to escort her out.
During questioning from prosecutor Zachary Stendig, Baldwin flatly denied having an affair with Sabourin — prompting one of many outbursts angrily branding him a liar.
“You’re lying! Why are you lying?” Sabourin shouted. “That’s not true!”
And he again denied an affair under cross-examination by defense lawyer Todd Spodek, who asked Baldwin if the pair had sex at the Lowell Hotel.
An incensed Sabourin shouted, “You have a scar here!” and pointed to her hip as Judge Robert Mandlebaum told her to settle down
Later, when the judge threatened to hold her in contempt, she shouted:
“I got to prove that I had a sexual relationship! I didn’t do anything wrong. He’s lying to you his honor!” as Spodek led her from the courtroom.
Baldwin described meeting Sabourin while on a film shoot in Montreal in 2000.
He testified that he didn’t see her again until 2010 when he went to dinner in New York with filmmaker Martin Bregman and Sabourin, whom he described as the “Scarface” producer’s mistress.
“Marty called me told me he needed my help. That Marty Bregman was ending his relationship with her. He wanted to help get her a job. She wanted to be an actress — he wanted me to meet her to help with her potential acting career,” Baldwin said.
Baldwin then testified that he wanted to try to help his friend — an influential producer whose credits also included other Al Pacino hits like “Carlito’s Way” and “Dog Day Afternoon,” among other hits.
“Bregman asked me to do it as a favor. I wanted to handle the situation as delicately as I could knowing this was Marty’s girlfriend. The issue as I saw then was that she was 39 years old at the time, she was a French Canadian with a discernible accent… and the most I could offer her [was] advice on was where to study acting,” Baldwin testified.
Baldwin claimed the pair only met once, and testified that they exchanged phone calls and emails for about a month – a statement Spodek later shot down during cross-examination.
Asked about the nature of the calls, Baldwin said she told him she didn’t want to be with Bregman anymore and wanted a relationship with him.
“I want to see you again. When can I see you again? I want us to be together. I want to be with you,” Baldwin described her as having said.
He said she left repeated voicemails that grew more alarming in nature.
“They varied wildly, either her sobbing and crying and begging me to call her and to commence this relationship with her or it would be her laughing and giggling and bubbling, talking about what we were going to do together in her imagination…the messages would sometimes be five minutes apart…she sounded very inebriated.”
He said she eventually left hundreds of messages, prompting another outburst.
“No!” Sabourin shouted.
“It was nightmarish,” the actor said. “The final ones were threats to myself and my wife [Hilaria] … ‘I’m going to get into your wife’s classroom, I’m going to penetrate the building you live in,’ ” Sabourin said, according to his testimony.
Baldwin said he deleted many of her emails, prompting Sabourin to shout: “You delete women after sex!”
But during cross-examination, Baldwin admitted that he continued exchanging emails with Sabourin into 2012 — long after he claimed he’d told her he wanted her to stop contacting him.
“In fact you emailed her seven more times after July 11th [2011],” Spodek said, noting that, “It’s your testimony you wanted no contact with Miss Sabourin after July 11th.”
Baldwin at first replied, “I don’t know,” but then claimed that he responded to emails that she had sent to him after that date.
“The contact keeps coming, I was trying to encourage her to move on,” Baldwin replied.
“But you continued to email her?” the lawyer asked.
“In response to emails she sent to me,” Baldwin admitted.
The defense lawyer asked if Baldwin recalled an August 2011 email in which Sabourin said, “She’s crying like a dying animal and how she asks you [to] trust her again and give her another chance?”
Baldwin replied, “She writes she can’t stop crying like a dying animal [and] I wrote, ‘Believe me, I’ve been there but you must stop,’” he testified.
Spodek also referred to an email Baldwin sent her in January 2012 about a trip to Europe she was planning with another man – in which he urged her to make sure she had protected sex with her partner.
“The person she was going to be traveling to Europe with was very important… I urged her to wear protection,” he admitted.
Spodek asked if this advice was personal or professional — the only kind of advice Baldwin claimed he gave the love-struck Sabourin.
“This was personal,” Baldwin replied, prompting another outburst from the accused stalker.
“Like the sex we had!” she shouted out.
Later, prosecutors questioned Baldwin’s yoga instructor wife Hilaria, first asking her to describe how the actor in described his relationship with Sabourin.
“Purely professional. She was the mistress of a dear friend of his and he agreed to meet with her to discuss that she wanted to become an actress,” Hilaria said, prompting still another outburst from the defendant.
“She doesn’t know what she’s talking about!” she interrupted.
Hilaria told the prosecutor that Sabourin called her home once, started speaking to her in Spanish and then threatened her in English.
“She started shrieking at me: ‘You bitch, you bitch, you bitch!’ and I said ‘Genevieve this isn’t an appropriate conversation to have but you need to stop and leave us alone,” prompting another furoius reply from Sabourin.
“I neve spoke with you and you know it!” she yelled, adding moments later: “G “You’re going to go to hell!”
Hilaria also testified about the encounter at Lincoln Center.
“I’ve never been more afraid in my entire life,” she said of seeing Sabourin at the event.
Hilaria also testified about a Twitter message she received from Sabourin that mocked her for calling herself Hilaria when her birth name was Hillary, and another message wishing that she would have a miscarriage after she became pregnant.
On both the way in and way out of the courthouse, Baldwin lost his cool and hurled more insults at a Post photographer.
“I hope you choke to death!” he snarled at G.N. Miller as he left the courthouse after his testimony – leaving his wife Hilaria behind in the building.
On his way into court, the hot-headed actor spat “Tough guy!” and “You’re a liar!” at Miller, a retired NYPD detective who was snapping photos as Baldwin emerged from a car, wearing dark shades despite the overcast, snowy weather.
Sabourin, who arrived later Tuesday morning, saying she wanted to hear “the truth” from the actor when he took the stand.
“Does the truth make you nervous?” she responded when asked if she were nervous. “I’m not guilty.”
She then blasted the trial as a waste of money – the taxpayers’ and her own.
“Two hundred thousand dollars. I lost my house, I lost my retirement plan. And what’s happening to me could happen to any New Yorker,” she said in a light French accent.
“I was seeking for mediation for nearly two years, and what is happening right now is, they were never available for mediation. The DA was never available for true mediation. And we lost, what, half a million dollars and more of the New York taxpayers’ [money],” she fumed.
And she again insisted she was innocent.
“I haven’t done anything wrong,” she said.
The shapely Sabourin, 41, is accused of harassing Baldwin and his wife — though she insists they were lovers before he jilted her after a hotel tryst.
She repeatedly interrupted a opening statements in her trial last week with assorted outbursts
“Oh, my God,” she blurted at one point as a prosecutor read aloud a 2012 email she allegedly sent to Baldwin saying she wanted to have his baby.
“I will be in prime of my ovulation this St. Patrick’s Day and the best gift from you of all would be to conceive a mini Baldwin on this Ireland National Day,” read the email she sent to Baldwin.
Sabourin was arrested outside Baldwin’s East 10th Street penthouse on April 8, 2012.
Her defense lawyer argued that the case was about a “crumbling” romantic relationship.
The two dined together at the upscale eatery Elio’s in February 2010, he said. Baldwin then escorted Sabourin back to an Upper East Side hotel, where pair engaged in a sexual relationship, her lawyer said, after which he dumped her.