Alec Baldwin, speaking publicly for the first time since the ‘Rust’ shooting incident, mourned his cinematographer friend who was fatally shot on the movie set. He called her a friend and said that he is in “constant contact” with her grieving family.

“She was my friend,” Baldwin told photographers Saturday on a roadside in Vermont. “We were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together and then this horrible event happened.” The video was distributed by TMZ.

As per the investigators, Baldwin’s gun fired a single live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

During his video statement, the actor was joined by his wife, Hilaria, who filmed the exchange with her smartphone, often trying to get her husband to stop talking. Baldwin said he was speaking out so that the photographers would stop following his family.

Baldwin called the shooting incident a “one-in-a-trillion event” and said he had met with Hutchins’ husband.

“He is in shock, he has a 9-year-old son. We are in constant contact with him because we are very worried about his family and his kid. As I said, we are eagerly awaiting for the sheriff’s department to tell us what their investigation has yielded,” Baldwin said.

New Mexico investigators said that the accident occurred due to “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on the movie set. However, they maintained that it is too early to determine whether charges will be pressed or not.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza has said 500 rounds of ammunition — a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and suspected live rounds — were found while searching the set of the Western “Rust.”

The FBI is expected to help with ballistics analysis.

Director Souza, standing behind Hutchins, told the investigators that there should never be live rounds present near the scene.

(With inputs from Associated Press)