Alec Baldwin confronts Fox 5 reporter

Posted: Nov 15, 2013 9:25 AM ESTUpdated: Nov 15, 2013 11:25 AM EST

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -

The ever-explosive Alec Baldwin confronted and threatened a Fox 5 news reporter outside of his Manhattan apartment on Friday morning.

Baldwin walked up to Robert Moses, who was covering the conviction of a woman who was stalking him, and warned the reporter to leave the sidewalk in front of his building.

He started by saying, "You're in my way."

Moses answered, "Any reaction?"

"You're in my way," Baldwin responded.

Baldwin, who had been out walking his dog, then warned Moses to leave the area before he left the building again with his wife and child.

Baldwin then went inside but quickly turned around and came back out of the building. He ordered Moses to acknowledge that he understood what he had said.

Baldwin said, "If you're still here when my wife and kid come out, you're going to have a big problem, you know that."

As he reentered the building, Baldwin turned around again and said, "You are as dumb as you look, you are with Fox, right."

A judge found a Canadian actress guilty of stalking Alec Baldwin Thursday and sentenced her to 195 days in jail. That comes on top of a 30 day contempt of court sentence he handed down Wednesday to Genevieve Sabourin. The contempt ruling came after Sabourin repeatedly interrupted proceedings by yelling in court.

Baldwin and the Manhattan district attorney's office said it was a case of an acquaintance with a movie star turning into harassment. Sabourin claimed it was a romance that fell apart.

Baldwin, 55, said he first encountered Sabourin at a lunch with a mutual friend in 2000 in Montreal, where Baldwin was filming "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." Sabourin, 41, hails from the Montreal suburb of Candiac and has appeared in some Canadian films and TV series.

Ten years later, the friend asked Baldwin for a favor, the actor testified: Would he give some career advice to Sabourin?

So Baldwin and Sabourin met at a New York restaurant in 2010 for what he characterizes as an hour-long chat about her acting prospects and she calls a romantic dinner that ended in a sexual tryst, which Baldwin adamantly denies.

Baldwin says he communicated with her afterward only to convey suggestions about acting classes, but she quickly shifted to professing her love and pleading for his.

She began leaving as many as 30 voicemail messages a night, so many that he eventually disconnected the cellphone number he'd given her. And she sent a raft of emails that grew increasingly ominous in March 2012, when she wrote: "Call the FBI now!" and said she had the address of his Hamptons home, had "easy access" inside his New York apartment building and would insinuate herself into places he worked and yoga classes taught by his then-girlfriend, Hilaria Thomas, now his wife.

Shortly after Baldwin and Thomas got engaged in March 2012, they were sitting in their living room in the Hamptons hamlet of Amagansett, N.Y., when he heard gravel crunch in the driveway. He looked out to see Sabourin getting out of a car, Baldwin testified, his eyes reddening as he recalled the episode. He called police; Sabourin left before they arrived, he said.

The couple felt "extremely, extremely, extremely threatened," he said.

A few days afterward, he said, Sabourin appeared at the Lincoln Center screening — he had security guards escort her out, and Hilaria Baldwin testified that Sabourin ran toward her on the way out the door. Days later, Sabourin appeared outside the couple's Manhattan apartment building and was arrested.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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