Bruce Willis is speaking out after being asked to leave a Rite Aid in Los Angeles for not wearing a mask.
A source told Fox News that the 65-year-old “Die Hard” actor entered the pharmacy at about 3 pm Tuesday and immediately made other customers uncomfortable because he was not covering his face at the store.
Rite Aid has required customers to wear facial coverings in all stores since July 21, due to the coronavirus pandemic. When an employee asked Willis to cover his face, sources said he looked “unhappy” and chose to leave without buying anything.
In a statement to People, Willis admitted that he should have masked himself before joining Rite Aid.
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“It was an error of judgment,” he told the channel.
He added: “Be safe out there, everyone and we will continue to hide.”
Bruce Willis was photographed at Rite Aid in Los Angeles after refusing to put on a mask.
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Willis representatives did not respond to Fox News’s request for comment.
In the photo, Willis wears a black hat, black jacket, striped T-shirt and jeans. He also has a scarf around his neck, but it is not clear if this could have worked as a cover for his face if he pulled it up.
California remains the state most affected by the coronavirus, with 2,804,663 cases as of Wednesday morning.
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The new coronavirus infected more than 91,669,273 people in 191 countries and territories, resulting in at least 1,963,934 deaths. In the United States, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, totaling more than 22,846,810 diseases and at least 380,796 deaths.
Willis’ appearance at a Los Angeles store means that he is back in town after choosing to spend the early quarantine with his ex-wife Demi Moore and her daughters Rumer, 32, Scout, 29, and Tallulah, 26 in your home in Idaho.
Meanwhile, Willis’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, and their two young children, Mabel, 8, and Evelyn, 6, stayed in Los Angeles. While the decision to quarantine her ex raised some eyebrows, Scout appeared on a podcast where she helped clarify things.
Bruce Willis says that not wearing a mask in public was an ‘error of judgment’.
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“My little sister, who is now about to be [6] years, in a park, I’ve never heard of not fucking with hypothermic needles that she found, so she really tried to poke her shoe with them and poke her foot, ”explained Scout.
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Heming and the younger girls stayed in Los Angeles to await test results after the incident, Scout said, “so the trips went crazy, so my stepmother stayed in LA with my little sisters.”