Hillary “Hilaria” Baldwin opened that she was accused of falsifying her past – insisting that everyone’s fault was that she was Spanish.
Alec Baldwin’s wife told The New York Times in an early Wednesday interview that she has always hidden her parents’ true past as purely Boston bourgeois in an innocent attempt to protect their privacy.
And she claimed she was raised by a father with such “deep, deep, deep ties” to the European nation that, “When I wasn’t in Spain, I called her ‘I brought Spain home.’
People then distorted her innocent statement about “going home” to Spain, because they did not realize that “home is where my parents will be,” Baldwin said.
“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 far too literal about her statements about family roots in Spain, she argued, saying she only talks colloquially about family friends there.
“These people I call my family, I’m learning in this special situation, I have to say, ‘People I considered to be our family,'” she said.
The problem was aggravated by her representatives from the Creative Artists Agency, who used unconfirmed information on the Internet to write a careless biography about her, of which she was unaware until the scandal erupted, she said.
“It was very disappointing,” she said.
Similar mistakes have led to magazines such as ¡Hola! and Latina repeatedly calling her Spanish, including on cover stories.
However, despite the fact that he posed twice for the cover of the movie ¡Hola! – who has written about 20 articles about her on his website in English so far this year – simply did not realize the error because he never reads about her, said the former yoga teacher lover of Instagram, obsessed with selfies.
Even her most viral video – apparently forgetting the English word “cucumber” while speaking with a strong Spanish accent on “Today” – can be innocently explained as a “brainwashing” while she got nervous. one of her first major TV appearances, she said.
“Today we have the opportunity to clarify for people who have been confused – and who have been confused in some respects by people who misrepresent me,” she told the Times.
“I’m not doing anything wrong and I think there’s a difference between hiding and creating a limit.”
The growing scandal was “very surreal” because it was “very clear” about her past, insisting 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, “she told the Times.
“For me, I feel like I spent 10 years sharing this story over and over again. And now it doesn’t seem to be enough. “
In fact, her pride in her Boston roots was one of the first things she mentioned the first time she met her husband Alec, who once told David Letterman that “my wife is from Spain,” and, she also regularly mimics a heavy Spanish accent when pretending to be her.
“Who are you? I need to know you, I need to know you,” she reminded him, saying when they met while speaking Spanish at 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 was always my narrative,” she told the Times.
Baldwin said he first visited Spain as a child and returned at least once a year, without discussing exactly how regularly 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 trait, she insisted.
“Who can say what you are allowed to absorb and not absorb in growth?” she meditated.
“It’s been a part of my whole life,” she said, “and I can’t make it go away just because some people don’t understand it.”
She called 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 intentions are that I lead my life and my life is created by my parents, my different experiences, my languages, my culture and, yes, my children have very Spanish-influenced names.”
Baldwin – who regularly posts intimate family photos on Instagram and has worked on marriage TV – insisted he had “the right to my privacy.”
“People say, ‘No, you don’t have the right to your privacy because you married a famous person and you have Instagram.’ Well, that’s not true, “she complained.
Despite her claims of innocence, her old friends admit that they are puzzled by her transformation – especially by changing her name from Hillary.
“The whole Hilaria thing is hilarious to me,” Alexander Rechits, her competitive dance partner from 2006 to 2009, told The Times.
“It has always been her desire to be considered Spanish,” he said.
“But Hillary is a very good strong name, so why would you change that when you were born here and not born in Spain?”
The mysterious online Twitter user, who began analyzing Baldwin’s history, also spoke to The Times – but only after he was granted anonymity because he fears the famous hot-blooded actor Alec, who was previously ordered to take classes. anger control.
“I found it so weird that no one ever came out and said it, especially for someone who gets so much media attention,” @Lenibriscoe said of Hillary’s hesitant Spanish accent.
Neither CAA, nor Hello! the Times responded to allegations that the mistakes were made by them.