The Usual Suspects - Baldwin Apologises For Attacking Radio Host

Baldwin suggested Hannity should "get off the radio" for exhibiting "petty stupidity" by attacking his big brother last week (ends07Jan11) - but now he's regretting his outburst.

Speaking to website PopEater.com, the actor says, "I did a very foolish thing."

Stephen Baldwin admits he snapped when Hannity played an infamous irate phone message his brother left for his then-11-year-old daughter, which was leaked to the media.

He adds, "When Sean played that again, it really caused a knee-jerk reaction in me.

"I'm here to publicly apologise to Sean Hannity and say that I'm very sorry. That was not the correct thing to do, and I feel terrible about it. In turn, it became a much more exacerbated situation because he got upset and he got angry and kind of used his platform in a greater way to make the matters worse.

"I just wanna call it even, and wanna say, 'Sean, from the bottom of my heart, God bless ya. I apologise and wanna take the higher road here, bury the hatchet and just hopefully start over.'"