LOS ANGELES, CA – Actor Bruce Willis apologized Tuesday for refusing to wear a mask at a Rite Aid store in Los Angeles despite the city’s mask mandate.
The die-hard mask attitude got the “Die Hard” star started from the pharmacy on Sunday. While shopping at the pharmacy, Willis refused to wear a mask or pull a bandana around his neck over his nose and mouth, Page Six reported. A photo from the handkerchief was circulated on social media and much despised in Los Angeles, where more than 200 people die daily from coronavirus.
The 65-year-old action star is currently appearing on the small screen in a DieHard car battery commercial, and a series of negative headlines on Tuesday prompted him to issue a statement about the incident.
In a statement to People Magazine, Willis called it “a mistake in the verdict.”
“Be safe out there everyone, and let’s continue to mask,” he said.
Still, critics took to Twitter to give Willis a hard time.
Bruce Willis: Do you know who I am? Rite Aid: pic.twitter.com/BCUZKSPcm6
– Johnny Akzam (@JohnnyAkzam) January 12, 2021
Wondering how the @riteaid employee approached this? “We have an unbreakable mask on the rule. I do not have a sixth sense for this, but your mask is not on. I am not a boy scout either. It will be Armageddon if you do not correct it in a split second.”
– Nick Potts (@NickPotts__) January 13, 2021
Bruce Willis would rather DIE HARD than live for FREE – The actor was reportedly asked to leave a Los Angeles Rite Aid after refusing to wear a mask (@nypost)
– Geek Vibes Nation (@GeekVibesNation) January 12, 2021
I remember when Bruce Willis was so cool, Tony Amato on Miami Vice, David Addison on Moonlighting, now Bruce Willis asked to leave a Rite Aid so as not to wear a mask
– Jason Elias (@Zebop) January 13, 2021
Bruce Willis went into a Rite Aid and was asked to leave because he would not wear a mask. What a “Cop Out” he might end up in “Trauma Center” with a “Death Wish” and could “Die Hard” because he is not “Unbreakable” without a “Sixth Sense”
– Mayday Mindy (@ maydaymindy9) January 12, 2021
bruce willis refused to wear a mask inside a ritual aid when he first realized he was actually dead all the time
– Anthony Kapfer (@AnthonyKapfer) January 12, 2021
I’m stunned. Bruce Willis does not have a personal shopper to go to Rite Aid? https://t.co/2yjdETX2b0
– Tom Harrington (@cbctom) January 13, 2021
City News Service contributed to this report.
