Alec Baldwin apologized Wednesday for the behavior that got him booted from a plane in Los Angeles.
American Airlines claimed Baldwin, 53, stormed into the plane lavatory and slammed the door when a flight attendant instructed him to power down his cell phone on a Los Angeles flight bound for New York on Tuesday.
“I would like to apologize to the other passengers onboard the American Airlines flight that I was thrown off of yesterday,” he wrote in a column on the Huffington Post website.
AIRLINE SAYS BALDWIN ‘ALARMED’ PILOTS
“It was never my intention to inconvenience anyone with my ‘issue’ with a certain flight attendant,” he wrote in a posting entitled “A Farewell to Common Sense, Style, and Service on American Airlines.”
The “30 Rock” star claimed he was “singled out” by a flight attendant who used “unpleasant tones” when she instructed him to turn off his cell phone.
Baldwin said the plane’s late departure left him confused over when he needed to put away his electronic device.
“I guess the fact that this woman, who had decided to make some example of me, while everyone else was left undisturbed, did get the better of me,” he added.
“My apology to my fellow travelers.”
But the Texas-based airline offered a different account of the incident, saying in a statement the angry actor “slammed the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became alarmed.”
They also described Baldwin as being “extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language.”
Shortly after the showdown, Baldwin tweeted about the incident claiming a crew member “reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate.”
“The flight attendants already look…..smarter,” he wrote after he was booked on a later flight to the Big Apple.
“Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950’s find jobs as flight attendants,” he added in a later tweet.
Once the actor arrived back in his native New York, his account was deactivated on the microblogging website.
A representative from Twitter told the New York Daily News that the company does not comment on individual accounts, while Baldwin’s spokesman Matthew Hiltzer said the actor was “focusing on shooting ’30 Rock’ today.”
Meanwhile, “Words With Friends” looks to have received a bump in popularity from the incident, with the game the 10th most popular Facebook app on Wednesday, according to AppData.
The Zynga game’s daily active users have jumped from 300,000 people to about 5.5 million.