Los Angeles, California — Actor Bruce Willis apologized on Tuesday for refusing to wear a mask at the Rite Aid store in Los Angeles despite the city’s request to wear a mask.
The stubborn mask stance caused the “Die Hard” star to be launched from the drugstore on Sunday. Page 6 reported that Willis refused to wear a mask or pull the headscarf over his nose and mouth while shopping in the pharmacy. A photo of a kerchief uffle circulated on social media and was widely ridiculed in Los Angeles, where more than 200 people died of coronavirus every day.
The 65-year-old action star is currently appearing on the small screen in the DieHard car battery ad, and a series of negative news on Tuesday prompted him to make a statement on the matter.
In a statement to People magazine, Willis called it a “misjudgment.”
He said: “Everyone is safe, let us continue to cover ourselves.”
Nonetheless, critics have adopted Twitter to give Willis a difficult time.
Bruce Willis: Do you know who I am? Etiquette assistance: pic.twitter.com/BCUZKSPcm6
-Johnny Akzam (@JohnnyAkzam) January 12, 2021
Want to know how @riteaid employees do this? “We have an unbreakable mask. I don’t have a sixth sense about it, but neither do you have a mask. I’m not a Boy Scout either. If you don’t take it apart, it will be the end of the world. Second.”
-Nick Potts (@NickPotts__) January 13, 2021
Bruce Willis would rather die than live free (LIVE FREE)-The actor was reportedly told to leave the Los Angeles Ceremony after refusing to wear a mask (@nypost)
-Geek Vibes Nation (@GeekVibesNation) January 12, 2021
I remember when Bruce Willis was very cool, Tony Amato from Miami Vice, David Addison in the moonlight.Now Bruce Willis is asking to leave etiquette assistance because he does not wear a mask
-Jason Elias (@Zebop) January 13, 2021
Bruce Willis participated in a ceremonial aid and was asked to leave because he did not wear a mask. He may eventually fall into the “warning” of the “trauma center” with his “death wish”, and may be “hardened” so that he will not be “unbreakable” without a “sixth sense”
— Mayday Mindy (@maydaymindy9) January 12, 2021
Bruce Willis realized that he was actually dead, and he refused to wear a mask in the etiquette
-Anthony Kapfer (@AnthonyKapfer) January 12, 2021
I am shocked that Bruce Willis does not have a personal shopper to go to the Rite Aid? https://t.co/2yjdETX2b0
-Tom Harrington (@cbctom) January 13, 2021
City News Agency contributed to this report.
