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Speaker 3: From Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill, your daily pop

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Speaker 1: I'm Em Burnham and I'm Laura Brodnick and on the

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Speaker 1: show today, one of the most iconic actresses of the

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Speaker 1: has very sadly passed away. So we need to talk

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Speaker 1: about some of the wildest stories from her career, but

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Speaker 1: also some untold stories that have recently bubbled the surface

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Speaker 1: that we need to get into.

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Speaker 3: But first, but first. This weekend, Alec Baldwin was set

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Speaker 3: and that case was then dismissed. So to refresher memory.

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Speaker 3: This goes back to twenty twenty one on the set

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Speaker 3: of the film Rust Sadly, Helena Hutchins was shot and

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Speaker 3: killed by a prop gun that contained live ammunition, and

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Speaker 3: that person holding the gun was Alec Baldwin. The trial,

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Speaker 3: Alec Baldwin's defense attorneys convinced the judge to dismiss the

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Speaker 3: case with prejudice, saying that prosecutors sat on evidence that

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Speaker 3: would have helped shed a light onto how live ammunition

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Speaker 3: was brought onto the movie set. Judge Simmons said the

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Speaker 3: late discovery of this evidence during trial has impeded the

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Speaker 3: effective use of evidence in such a way that it

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Speaker 3: has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings. So if

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Speaker 3: he was convicted, Alec Baldwin would have actually faced up

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Speaker 3: to eighteen months in jail. This doesn't actually prove that

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Speaker 3: It's just proven that there was evidence that was like

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Speaker 3: So the case was just dismissed all out. It is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. This is such a wild turn of events

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Speaker 1: and what happened there, and it was thought that Alec

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Speaker 1: important too to note is that I've seen people posting

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Speaker 1: over the weekend that he was found innocent, which wasn't

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Speaker 3: It's so upsetting, especially because they would have also seen

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if this had gone ahead, it would have taken

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Speaker 1: There's so much around this story that is just wild,

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Speaker 1: And I think so much of the last few years

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Speaker 1: think a lot of her fans found it difficult to hear,

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Speaker 1: And that was her first big role and it was

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Speaker 1: the woman who his character had died saving, like she'd

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Speaker 1: been an accident and he'd saved her life and he

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Speaker 1: passed away, and then she was able to have this

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Speaker 1: talk with his son on the show and talk about

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Speaker 1: how his dad had saved her life and what a

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Speaker 1: good person she was, and it was meant to be

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Speaker 1: like Shannon Doherty what she would have said about Luke Perry,

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Speaker 1: like he saved my life and we loved him, but

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Speaker 1: he was always thinking of others. And I think that

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Speaker 1: was the last time she had a really big acting role.

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Speaker 3: Because she got to be Riverdale. I hope it, and

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Speaker 3: I mean it was for Luke Perry.

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Speaker 1: I know, well, that was a huge, huge cult show

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Speaker 1: that ran for a long time. It was a teen

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Speaker 1: show too long, like me nine O two one zero

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Speaker 1: was the foundation for shows like that. It was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Luke Perry was a huge part of that show.

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Speaker 1: So I think it actually was very fitting that that

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Speaker 1: was her kind of last big acting role. Was a

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Speaker 1: tribute to her first on screen love.

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Speaker 3: A lot of celebrities have been paying tribute to Shannon,

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Speaker 3: and we rounded them all up in one article that

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Speaker 3: we were link in our show notes. Also, if you

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Speaker 3: want more content on Shannondohity mum be out Louder actually

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Speaker 3: doing an episode revolving around Shannon's marriage and the unraveling

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Speaker 3: of all of that. We will link that episode in

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Speaker 3: our Shannets. Thank you so much for listening to this

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Speaker 3: spill to day. We will be back in your podcast

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Speaker 3: feed at three pm tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye

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Speaker 1: It