Alec Baldwin personified his wife’s accent, Hilaria Baldwin, and stated, “My wife is from Spain” during an appearance on David Letterman’s 2013 night talk show, according to an old clip that appeared online.
Hilaria Baldwin’s heritage has come under fresh scrutiny after she recently confirmed that she was born in Massachusetts – and not in Spain, as she had previously stated.
In a 2013 interview with Letterman on CBS’s “The Late Show”, Baldwin told the host that his wife was from Spain, so he used a fake accent while posing as her on the phone with a hairdresser or friend.
“My wife is from Spain,” said Baldwin later. “I don’t want to be racist when I put on that accent, by the way.”
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He also used the fake accent when imitating her when dealing with a change in mood during pregnancy, according to reports.
Hilaria Baldwin also admitted over the weekend that she is white and her real name is Hillary. Critics accused her of lying about her Spanish heritage and of adopting a false Spanish accent.
The controversy began after a Twitter user wrote: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade of life, where she pretends to be a Spaniard.”
Alec Baldwin, the 62-year-old actor and impersonator of Donald Trump, defended his wife amid a negative reaction that she was misrepresenting the extent of her Spanish heritage.
He shared a quote from Mark Twain posted on his Instagram this week.
“A lie can travel half the world while the truth is putting on your shoes,” read the quote.
Previously, he had called the controversy “just a lot of s —“.
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“You have to break into the rubble of Twitter. Twitter is just a vast orchard of shit. And I certainly threw some shit in that orchard from time to time with things I said. So, I didn’t miss that, I am also guilty of that,” he said. him on Instagram.
Hilaria Baldwin and Alec Baldwin attend the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Achievement 2020 Award at the Rainbow Room on March 3, 2020, in New York City. (Getty Images)
She explained in a podcast in April, “I moved here [to America] when I was 19 years old to go to NYU from … my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca. “
The accent of the bilingual mother of five also fluctuated noticeably over the years when she appeared on TV.
She also addressed online criticism in a video. “There have been some questions about where I was born, I was born in Boston … I spent part of my childhood in Boston, part of my childhood in Spain, my family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everyone is there in Spain now, I’m here “, he explained.
“I am that person, if I have spoken a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix it up, or if I speak a lot of English I mix it up, it is one of those things that I have always been a little insecure in,” she said of her accent.
Hilaria’s parents left America in 2011 and live in Majorca, an island in Spain.
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Alec Baldwin and Hilaria have been married since 2012. They received their fifth child together in September.
Fox News’ Jessica Napoli contributed to this report.