Alec Baldwin defends wife Hilaria after she admits her name is Hillary and she was born in Boston
‘Twitter is a lot of sh*t’: Alec Baldwin defends wife Hilaria against claims she faked Spanish heritage after she admits her real name is Hillary and she was born in Boston NOT Majorca – as clip surfaces of him impersonating her Spanish accent
- The SNL star took to Instagram Sunday to defend his wife after she told her followers: ‘Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl’ in a rambling video
- That came following claims she’s spent years misrepresenting her heritage
- Alec called Twitter, where the allegations first surfaced, ‘a lot of s***’ on Sunday
- He added: ‘There’s things that have been said lately about people that I love, that I care about deeply, which are ridiculous. I mean, just ridiculous’
- He also shared a quote about ‘lies’ spreading faster than the truth on Monday
- A video of Alec from 2013 emerged Monday in which he impersonated his wife’s ‘Spanish’ accent, telling David Letterman: ‘My wife is from Spain’
- Hilaria admitted she was born in Boston, not in Majorca, as previously claimed
- In interviews over the years Hilaria has indicated that she moved from Spain to the US when she was 19 to attend New York University
- She actually attended the exclusive The Cambridge School of Weston where fees are $64,900 a year and class ratios are 6:1 under the name Hillary
Alec Baldwin has defended his wife Hilaria after she was forced to admit her real name is Hillary and she was born in Boston and not Majorca.
The SNL star took to Instagram Sunday after his wife, 36, told her followers: ‘Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl.’ That came following claims on Twitter that she’s spent years misrepresenting her heritage.
While not addressing the allegations directly Alec, 62, said Sunday Twitter is ‘a lot of s***’. He added: ‘You have to kind of hack your way through the debris of Twitter. Twitter is just a vast orchard of crap.
He added: ‘There’s things that have been said lately about people that I love, that I care about deeply, which are ridiculous. I mean, just ridiculous.’
‘They’ve said it about people I love – false things. Untrue things,’ the actor added.
‘And as much as that hurts, the only thing I can do is talk to that half of the public or that portion of the public who understands what I mean when I say: “Consider the source. When you love somebody you want to defend them.’
On Monday he posted a quote seemingly about the incident to his Instagram page. It read: ‘A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its shoes.’
A video of Alec on The Late Show in 2013 emerged Monday in which he impersonated his wife’s ‘Spanish’ accent, telling David Letterman: ‘My wife is from Spain.’
Hilaria indicated in one 2020 interview that she moved from Spain to the US when she was 19 to attend New York University. Now it has emerged Hilaria, who was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, attended $64,900-a-year The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts.
Hilaria’s husband Alec took to Instagram on Sunday – not to address the allegations, but rather to blast outlets like TMZ and the New York Post for printing claims he called ‘spectacularly false’
On Monday he posted two quotes seemingly about the incident to his Instagram page. One read: ‘A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its shoes’
Hilaria posted a rambling seven-minute video to Instagram on Sunday days after claims that she’s spent years misrepresenting her heritage went viral on Twitter.
User shared a string of videos presented as evidence that her Spanish accent isn’t real.
‘Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl,’ the 36-year-old influencer admitted.
‘Let’s be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally, I grew up with two cultures so it’s really as simple as that.’
Her video sparked a flurry of memes with some jokingly comparing her to Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug.
Krug, a professor of African American history at George Washington University, who pretended to be black her entire career; Dolezal, a former NAACP leader, was unmasked as a white woman in 2015.
The online frenzy over Hilaria’s heritage began on December 21 when a woman tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.’
In the next few days several videos of Hilaria’s past TV appearances resurfaced showing her commitment to a Spanish accent, including one where she seemingly forgot the English word for ‘cucumber’.
Yet Hilaria appeared to slip out of the accent last week when she took to Instagram Live to react to a prank post from comedian Amy Schumer.
Several former classmates came forward to confirm that Hilaria was in fact raised in Weston, Massachusetts, by professor parents without a hint of a foreign accent.
‘Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl’: After a slew of accusations she ‘faked’ her Spanish heritage, Hilaria Baldwin confessed Sunday that her real name is Hillary and she was actually born in Boston not Majorca
A video of Alec on The Late Show emerged Monday in which he impersonated his wife’s ‘Spanish’ accent, telling David Letterman: ‘My wife is from Spain’
Hilaria’s biography on her agency’s speakers site states that she was born on the island of Majorca and raised in Boston, without specifying a timeline for her upbringing.
Internet sleuths were also quick to uncover details about Hilaria’s parents, Dr Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, who worked as professors in the US for years before retiring to Majorca in 2011, according to Page Six.
While Hilaria has long described her mother as Spanish, records revealed that Hayward is in fact a fourth-generation Massachusetts resident.
‘I miss them so much’: Baldwin noted that ’44 people from Spain’ attended her 2012 wedding to Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin (L), but she hasn’t seen her family since September 2019 because of ‘the pandemic’
The online frenzy over Hilaria’s heritage was sparked on December 21 when a woman tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person’
Hilaria’s father’s family has even deeper ties to the US, having lived here since before the American Revolution.
And on Sunday Hilaria changed her tune about her upbringing telling fans she spent ‘some of’ her childhood in Spain and ‘some’ of it in Massachusetts, where she was born. She maintained that her entire family lives in Spain now.
‘There was a lot of back and forth my entire life,’ the Mom Brain podcaster explained.
‘And I’m really lucky that I grew up speaking two different languages and I’m trying to raise my kids, so they speak two languages too. And that’s something very important to me especially having my family abroad.’
Hilaria added: ‘Yeah I’m a different kind of Bostonian but that’s who I am, and you kind of can’t change your background – nor would I want to – I’m really, really proud of who I am.’
She also noted that ’44 people from Spain’ attended her 2012 wedding to Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin, but she hasn’t seen her family since September 2019 because of ‘the pandemic’.
Internet sleuths were quick to uncover details about Hilaria’s parents, Dr Kathryn Hayword (left) and David Thomas (right), who worked as professors in the US for years before retiring to Majorca in 2011, according to Page Six
The NYU alum and her 62-year-old husband gave all five of their children Spanish names – daughter Carmen Gabriela, 7; son Rafael Thomas, 5; son Leonardo Ángel, 4; son Romeo Alejandro, 2; and son Eduardo ‘Edu’ Pao Lucas, 3 months.
As for her name, Hilaria said she’d use Hillary in the States and Hilaria in Spain.
‘My whole family call me Hilaria. It always kind of bothered me that neither name sounds good in the other language. So I would use one or the other one,’ she said.
Hillary (not Hilaria) Baldwin’s real past: Alec’s wife, 36, attended exclusive Massachusetts high school despite claiming to have come to the US from Spain at 19, her mom is a white college professor and her accent comes and goes
Hilaria Baldwin was born in Boston and attended an exclusive Massachusetts high school despite claiming to have come to America when she was 19 and presenting herself as a Spanish person.
The 36-year-old wife of Alec Baldwin confessed to her 859,000 Instagram followers on Sunday that her real name is Hillary, that she is ‘a white girl’ and that she spent only ‘some of’ her childhood in Spain.
Hilaria’s biography on her agency’s speakers site states that she was born on the island of Majorca and raised in Boston, without specifying a timeline for her upbringing. In interviews over the years Hilaria has indicated that she moved from Spain to the US when she was 19 to attend New York University.
Additional posts revealed that Hilaria’s mother discussed growing up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where she spent most of her career practicing medicine.
Hilaria, who was actually born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, also previously claimed that she came to the US when she was just 19 years old despite attending Cambridge School of Weston School in Weston, Massachusetts
Now it has emerged Hilaria, who was actually born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, attended exclusive $64,900-a-year The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts.
Internet sleuths were also quick to uncover details about Hilaria’s parents, Dr Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, who worked as professors in the US for years before retiring to Majorca in 2011, according to Page Six.
According to MassLive, Hayward, served as ‘an associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School’ until she retired.
While Hilaria has long described her mother as Spanish, records revealed that Hayward is in fact a fourth-generation Massachusetts resident.
Hilaria’s father’s family has even deeper ties to the US, having lived here since before the American Revolution.
Hilaria, who co-hosts the Mom Brain podcast, is listed as a 2002 alumni of The Cambridge School of Weston, despite claiming in April of this year that she moved to New York from Spain in 2003 to attend New York University.
‘I came for school and I never, ever left,’ she said in an interview entitled Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages.
Class ratios at her exclusive school are six students to one teacher. Other alumni include Lion King screenwriter Jonathan Roberts (1973) and American Pie actress Jennifer Coolidge (1979) who played Stifler’s mom.
Several former classmates also came forward to confirm that Hilaria was in fact raised in Weston, Massachusetts, by professor parents without a hint of a foreign accent.
‘I went to high school with her. Genuinely lovely person, I recall, but fully a white girl from Cambridge,’ one wrote.
Another added: ‘I went to high school with her. She was perfectly nice and serious about ballroom dancing. Her name was indeed Hillary Hayward-Thomas and she did not have her current accent.’
‘Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl,’ the 36-year-old influencer admitted. ‘Let’s be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things’
The Mom Brain podcaster explained: ‘And I’m really lucky that I grew up speaking two different languages and I’m trying to raise my kids, so they speak two languages too. And that’s something very important to me especially having my family abroad’
Seeking to quell the social media firestorm in her video on Sunday, Hilaria said that she spent ‘some of’ her childhood in Spain and ‘some’ of it in Massachusetts, where she was born. She maintained that her entire family lives in Spain now.
The influencer has graced the cover of Spanish magazine Hola! where she was identified as a Spanish person throught the interview.
Her husband Alec has also called his Spanish.
He defended his wife on Instagram, saying: ‘The majority of what’s been said, and—again, I don’t want to enumerate what those things are—is false. And some of it’s so spectacularly false.’
‘There was a lot of back and forth my entire life,’ the Mom Brain podcaster explained.
‘And I’m really lucky that I grew up speaking two different languages and I’m trying to raise my kids, so they speak two languages too. And that’s something very important to me especially having my family abroad.’
‘Let’s be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally, I grew up with two cultures so it’s really as simple as that’, Hilaria said Sunday.
Hilaria added: ‘Yeah I’m a different kind of Bostonian but that’s who I am, and you kind of can’t change your background – nor would I want to – I’m really, really proud of who I am.’
Hilaria noted that ’44 people from Spain’ attended her 2012 wedding to Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin, but she hasn’t seen her family since September 2019 because of ‘the pandemic’.
The NYU alum and her 62-year-old husband gave all five of their children Spanish names – daughter Carmen Gabriela, 7; son Rafael Thomas, 5; son Leonardo Ángel, 4; son Romeo Alejandro, 2; and son Eduardo ‘Edu’ Pao Lucas, 3 months.
As for her name, Hilaria said she’d use Hillary in the US and Hilaria in Spain.
‘My whole family call me Hilaria.
It always kind of bothered me that neither name sounds good in the other language. So I would use one or the other one,’ she said.
‘A handful of years before I met Alec, I decided to consolidate the two…It means happy in both languages. I think we can all be really like clear that it’s the same name just a few letters difference, so I don’t think we should be upset about it.’
Amy Schumer took to Instagram on Sunday to poke fun at Hilaria Baldwin’s cultural controversy
‘So cringe’: Hilaria later shared on Instagram never-before-seen snaps of herself in Spain
Baldwin – who boasts 852K Instagram followers – also shared a Spanish-language text from her brother and concluded: ‘I’ve said my piece’
She indicated that in her youth she tried to be her ‘coolest self,’ but ‘as you get older you kind of just embrace who you are and you just kind of want to be open about it and that’s what I’m trying to do here’.
Hilaria – who boasts 852K Instagram followers – later shared on her Instagram story never-before-seen snaps of herself in Spain.
She also shared a Spanish-language text from her brother and concluded: ‘I’ve said my piece.’
Speaking about the ‘spectacularly false’ printing claims, Alec said: ‘And as much as that hurts, the only thing I can do is talk to that half of the public or that portion of the public who understands what I mean when I say: “Consider the source.” It’s a sunny day here. We’re going to enjoy a sunny day – me and my little pack.’
Ireland Baldwin defends stepmom Hilaria after she says she’s signing off over scandal about her heritage: ‘It’s just kinda sad and pathetic’
Ireland Baldwin has long been close to stepmother Hilaria, who has described them as ‘girlfriends’ in the past.
And the model has broken her silence after Hilaria found herself in the middle of a social media controversy.
She took to her Instagram Story Sunday to set the record straight and defend her stepmom, after the mother of five announced that she’s signing off for a while, amid a scandal about her heritage.
The 25-year-old reposted a Christmas photo of Hilaria, 36, and father Alec Baldwin, 62, with daughter Carmen, seven, sons Rafael, five, Leonardo, four, Romeo, two, and Eduardo, three months.
Supportive stepdaughter: Ireland Baldwin took to her Instagram Story Sunday to set the record straight and defend her stepmom Hilaria, after the mother of five announced that she’s signing off for a while, amid a scandal about her heritage
It was accompanied by comment from Tracie Egan Morrissey, who’s fueled the discourse around Hilaria’s heritage: ‘If I were Ireland (Alec’s adult daughter with Kim Bassinger) I would be p****d watching my piece of the inheritance pie get smaller and smaller.’
Ireland then addressed her 645K followers in a video: ‘It’s so pathetic that anyone would wanna play detective, and dig that deep into someone’s life that they don’t know, don’t know anything about, how they were raised, who they were actually raised by. It’s just kinda sad and pathetic.
‘And also, it’s the holidays, and people are depressed, people are going through a lot. I know I’m going through a lot, personally. And the last thing we really need to do is start s*** and gossip about something that is so, so stupid. And about somebody that nobody really even knows.’
Morrissey previously took to her Instagram Story with an overwhelming amount of evidence that Hilaria has lied about being from Spain.
Sad and pathetic: Ireland then addressed her 645K followers in a video: ‘It’s so pathetic that anyone would wanna play detective, and dig that deep into someone’s life that they don’t know… It’s just kinda sad and pathetic’
Ireland added: ‘And this person has dug up old tweets from Hilaria’s high school peers, and they all say one thing about her, that she’s really kind, when they reflect back on their experience with her. And that’s because she is very kind, she’s a good person. And she’s a caring person who’s always respected my relationship with my dad.
‘I have a great relationship with her. And she could be a really malicious, terrible, horrible human who tears people down, but she isn’t. Hilaria is a wonderful mother who takes great care of her kids, and she takes great care of my dad. And that’s really all that matters to me.’
She concluded in regard to the original post: ‘I’m not worried about my inheritance, because I’m gonna take good care of me. But thank you so much for your suggestion.’
Great relationship: She concluded: ‘I have a great relationship with her. And she could be a really malicious, terrible, horrible human who tears people down, but she isn’t. Hilaria is a wonderful mother who takes great care of her kids, and she takes great care of my dad. And that’s really all that matters to me’ (pictured in July, 2015)
