Hillary “Hilaria” Baldwin has been accused of falsifying her background and has insisted that everyone else’s fault has been to assume she was Spanish.
Alec Baldwin’s wife told the New York Times in an interview published early Wednesday that she had always hidden her parents ’true story as Boston bourgeois, purely in an innocent attempt to protect their privacy.
And she claimed she was raised by a father with “such deep and profound ties” to the European nation that, “When we weren’t in Spain, we called it ‘we brought Spain home.’
The world then misrepresented its innocent pronouncement on “coming home” to Spain, because they did not realize that “the house is where my parents will be,” Baldwin told the dam.
“If my parents move to China, I’ll go to China and say,‘ I’m going home, ’” said Baldwin, who was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas.
People were also too literal about his statements about family roots in Spain, he said, saying he only spoke colloquially about his family friends.
“These people I call my family, I’m learning in this particular situation, I have to say,‘ People we’ve considered our family, ’” he stated.
The problem was exacerbated by her representatives at the Creative Artists Agency who used unverified information from the Internet to write a careless biography of her, which she did not know until the scandal erupted.
“It was very disappointing,” he grabbed.
Similar mistakes caused magazines like Hello! and Latina repeatedly called it Spanish, including the covers.
Still, posing twice for the cover of Hello! “She has written about 20 articles about her on her website in English so far this year,” she simply did not realize the mistake because she never reads about herself, said the former yoga teacher. Instagram lover and obsessed with selfies
Even his most viral video, which seems to forget the English word “cucumber” while speaking with a strong Spanish accent on the “Today” program, can innocently be described as a “fart brain,” as he nervously made one of the her first big TV appearances, she said.
“Today we have the opportunity to clarify for people who have been confused, and who have been confused in some way by people who misrepresent me,” he told the Times.
“There’s nothing wrong with that and I think there’s a difference between hiding and creating a border.”
The growing scandal has been “very surreal” because it has been “very clear” about its background, he insisted on mistakes made only by others.
“I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 and have lived here ever since, ”he told the Times.
“For me, I feel like I’ve spent 10 years sharing this story over and over again. And now it seems that it is not enough ”.
In fact, her pride in her Boston roots was one of the first things she mentioned the first time she met her now husband Alec, who told David Letterman that “my wife is from Spain.” and that she regularly imitated a strong Spanish accent when pretending to be her.
“‘Who are you? I have to know you, I have to know you,'” he reminded her when he met her when he spoke Spanish in a vegan restaurant in New York in 2011.
“He said, ‘Where are you from?’ And I said, “I’m from Boston.”
“It was the first thing I said, which has always been my narrative,” he told the Times.
Baldwin said he visited Spain for the first time 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 and immersed her so deeply in European culture that her strong accent and dependence on Spanish culture is not a cultural appropriation, she insisted.
“Who can say what it can absorb and not absorb as it grows?” he reflected.
“This has been a part of my whole life,” he said, “and I can’t make it go away just because some people don’t understand it.”
He said it was “extremely important” that people “be able to come out as different parts of themselves and how they identify and get people to listen.”
She said: “My intentions are for me to live my life and my life is created by my parents, my different experiences, my languages, my culture and, yes, my children have names with Spanish influence.”
Baldwin, who regularly posts intimate photos of the family on Instagram, and who has worked on television since his marriage, insisted he had a “right to my privacy.”
“People say,‘ No, you don’t have a right to your privacy because you’ve married a famous person and you have Instagram. “Well, that’s not really true,” he complained.
Despite their claims of innocence, old friends admit that they are baffled by her transformation, especially by changing her name to Hillary.
“Everything about‘ Hilaria ’is fun for me,” her competitive dance partner from 2006 to 2009, Alexander Rechits, told The Times.
“It was always her desire to be considered Spanish,” she said.
“But Hillary is a really good name, why would you change it when you were born here and you weren’t born in Spain?”
The mysterious online Twitter user who started the analysis of Baldwin’s background also spoke to The Times, but only after being granted anonymity, as he fears the famous actor Alec, who had already received the order to take anger control classes.
“I found it so weird that no one would have ever come out to say that, especially for someone who has so much media attention,” @Lenibriscoe said of Hillary’s hesitant Spanish accent.
Neither CAA nor Hello! he responded to the Times about allegations that the mistakes had been made by them.