‘Agitated’ Alec Baldwin called server a ‘peasant’ after berating her at gala, woman says

A server trying to do her job at a gala Alec Baldwin attended last week in New York City has shared new details about how the famously hotheaded actor “patronizingly” scolded her and called her a “peasant” as she walked away.

The young woman’s account of her tense encounter with Baldwin at the star-studded 2023 PEN America Spring Literary Gala Thursday night suggests that the actor has perhaps not learned patience, kindness and humility after living through the horror of accidentally killing another human being.

It also could be that Baldwin feels entitled to behave belligerently in public again, after he learned last month that prosecutors in New Mexico had dropped involuntary manslaughter charges against him in that killing — the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film “Rust.”

Whatever is going on with Baldwin, this server told Page Six in an interview published Monday that she was on the receiving end of his ire. As she and a witness revealed last week, she angered the 65-year-old “30 Rock” alum off when she began to set out guests’ dinner plates while he was still standing and talking to someone.

The server, who asked not to be named, said that Baldwin was blocking servers’ path as dinner was being served.

“I’m a sweep leader,” she told Page Six, “which means I basically tell the waiters when to put down the plates and we have to do it in a certain order.”

“I was going to feed the head of the table but that’s who (Baldwin) was talking to, so I go up to him and I say, ‘I’m sorry sir, but we’re going to have servers walking through the tables here in a minute.’”

The server understood that Baldwin probably wanted to chat with his friend, but “me and my servers have a job to do,” she told Page Six. Her request for Baldwin to move — even asked in a polite way — set him off, she said. He lashed out at her: “So when is it a good time to talk to my friends?”

The server told Page Six she “did not expect that kind of reaction.” She said Baldwin was clearly “very agitated” and added in a patronizing tone: “Do I have to explain it to you?” When she relied that she didn’t need an explanation, she said Baldwin ordered her, “Well, then step aside.”

A witness told Page Six last week that Baldwin’s scolding left the young woman visibly “shocked” and upset. She told Page Six that her co-workers came up to her and said, “Do you know what he said while you were walking away?” She said she didn’t catch the insult because she was focused on her work. “Apparently he was calling me a peasant,” the woman said. He was “clearly mad that I told him kindly, “Excuse me.’”

The server said that not all the famous guests at the gala acted rude and entitled.

“I said, ‘Excuse me,’ to Colin Jost and he was nothing but sweet about it,” the server told Page Six. “He said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry’ and stepped aside.”

“So I know it’s not a celebrity thing,” the serve continued. “Maybe it’s people’s upbringings? Who knows what makes bitter people bitter?”

The woman told Page Six she wasn’t worried about getting in trouble for the incident because she was just doing her job.

The gala, at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, was Baldwin’s first public appearance since he learned he isn’t facing charged in Hutchins’ death — at least for the time being and unless new evidence comes forward. He attended the gala with his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, who became controversial in her own right when it was learned that the Boston-born influencer had been faking faking a half-Spanish identity on social media and in interviews for more than 10 years.

Page Six reported that Hilaria Baldwin wasn’t in her husband’s vicinity when he lashed out at the server. A short time earlier, the Baldwins were all smiles as they walked the red carpet at the gala. Page Six reported how they “flaunted” their love as they posed for photos. The “30 Rock” actor and father of eight was in a tuxedo, and his yoga instructor wife was in a black gown. At one point, they wrapped their arms around each other, and Baldwin was seen sweetly kissing Hilaria on the forehead.

Baldwin was at the event to help honor his friend, “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels, who received a PEN/Audible Literary Service Award. Author Salman Rushdie also was a surprise guest and was honored at the event.