Hillary “Hilaria” Baldwin is of the opinion that she is accused of falsifying her background, and insisted that it was everyone’s fault because she accepted that she was Spanish.
Alec Baldwin’s wife told The New York Times in an interview posted early Wednesday that she always hid her parents’ true background as civilian Bostonians simply in an innocent attempt to protect their privacy.
And she claims that she was raised by a father with such ‘deep, deep, deep ties’ with the European nation, that’ when we were not in Spain, it ‘brought Spain into our home’.
The world then misrepresented her innocent statement about ‘going home’ because they did not realize that ‘the house is where my parents are going to be’, Baldwin said.
“When my parents move to China, I go to China and say, ‘I’m going home,'” Baldwin, born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, claims.
People were also far too literal about her statements about family roots in Spain, she claimed, saying that she only spoke in the conversation about family friends there.
‘These people I call my family, I learn in this particular situation. I have to say, ‘People who considered us our family,’ “she claimed.
The problem was exacerbated by her representatives at the Creative Artists Agency and used unverified information from the internet to write a sloppy biography about her, of which she was not aware until the scandal blew up.
“It was very disappointing,” she interjected.
Similar mistakes led to magazines like ¡Hola! and Latina repeatedly calls her a Spaniard, also on cover stories.
Yet despite posing twice for the cover of ¡Hola – who has written about 20 items about her on the English-language website so far this year – she simply never realized the mistake, as she never reads about herself, claiming the Instagram-loving, self-absorbed former yoga teacher.
Even the most viral video of her – who apparently forgets the English word “cucumber” while speaking with a heavy Spanish accent in the program “Today” – can be declared innocent as a ‘brain fart’ because she has one made her first big TV nervous. appearance, she said.
“Today we have the opportunity to explain to people who were confused – and who were in some ways confused by people who were misrepresenting me,” she told the Times.
“There’s nothing I do wrong, and I think there’s a difference between hiding and creating a boundary.”
The growing scandal was ‘very surreal’ because she was ‘very clear’ about her background. She insisted on mistakes made only by others.
“I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain. My family now lives in Spain. “I moved to New York when I was 19 and have lived here ever since,” she told the Times.
‘For me, I feel like I’ve shared the story over and over for ten years. And now it would seem that this is not enough. ”
In fact, her pride in her Boston roots was one of the first things she mentioned when she met her current husband, Alec, who once told David Letterman that ‘my wife is from Spain’ and also regularly a heavily imitated Spanish accents. pretending to be his.
“‘Who are you? I need to know you, I need to know you,’ ‘she recalls saying when they met when she spoke Spanish in a vegan restaurant in New York in 2011.
“He said, ‘Where are you from? “And I said, ‘I’m from Boston.’
“That was the first thing I said, which has always been my narrative,” she told the Times.
Baldwin said she first visited Spain as a baby and returned at least once a year without discussing exactly how often or for how long.
Her family also spoke Spanish in Boston, immersing herself so deeply in European culture that her heavy accent and trust in Spanish culture is not cultural appropriation, she insisted.
“Who says what you may absorb and not grow up?” she thought.
“It’s been a part of my whole life,” she claimed, “and I can’t make it go away just because some people don’t understand it.”
She calls it ‘extremely important’ for people to ‘be able to come out as different parts of themselves and how they identify and make people listen.’
She said: “My intention is to lead my life and my life is created by my parents, my different experiences, my languages, my culture and yes, my children have many Spanish-influenced names.”
Baldwin – who regularly posts intimate family photos on Instagram and has been working in TV since her marriage – has insisted she ‘is entitled to my privacy’.
People say, ‘No, you’re not entitled to your privacy because you’ve married a famous person and have Instagram. “Well, that’s not really true,” she complains.
Despite her claims of innocence, old friends admit that they are amazed at her transformation – especially to change her name from Hillary.
“The whole ‘Hilaria’ thing is hilarious to me,” her rival dance partner from 2006 to 2009, Alexander Rechits, told The Times.
“It was always her desire to be considered Spanish,” he said.
“But Hillary is a very good name, so why would you change it if you were born here and not born in Spain?”
The mysterious Twitter user who started the analysis of Baldwin’s background also spoke to The Times – but only after his anonymity was granted, because she fears the famous actor Alec, who was previously ordered to take classes in anger management.
“It just seemed so strange to me that no one had ever come out and said it, especially to someone who gets so much media attention,” @Lenibriscoe said of Hillary’s faltering Spanish accent.
Not CAA or ¡Hola! responded to the Times about the allegations that the mistakes were made by them.