Ms Hutchins, 42, died when a gun Baldwin had been told was safe fired off a live bullet during a rehearsal on a set of the film “Rust” in New Mexico on Oct 21.

Asked if he felt guilt Baldwin said: “No. I, honest to God, if I felt that I was responsible, I might have killed myself. And I don’t say that lightly. Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but it’s not me.

“Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property. There’s only one question to be resolved, and that’s where did the live round come from?” 

He added: “I don’t have anything to hide.”

The tragedy happened during a rehearsal outside a church for a scene in which Baldwin was required to cock the hammer of a Colt revolver but not fire it.

He was following instructions from Ms Hutchins to get the right camera angle.

Baldwin said: “Everything is at her direction. This was a marking rehearsal. And she says to me ‘Hold the gun lower. Go to your right. OK, right there. Alright, do that. Now show it a little bit lower.’

“She’s getting me to position the gun. She’s guiding me through how she wants me to hold the gun for this angle. I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it, which ended up being aimed right below her armpit.”

He went on: “I cock the gun. I go ‘Can you see that? Can you see that?’ And then I let go of the hammer of the gun, and bang, the gun goes off. The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger.

“First of all, everyone is horrified, they’re shocked, it’s loud. She (Ms Hutchins) goes down. I thought to myself, ‘Did she faint?’. The notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me until probably 45 minutes to an hour later.”