Ilast week, a Twitter detective outlined how Hilaria Baldwin, the actor’s influential wife (and sometimes SNL star) Alec Baldwin, perpetrated “a decade of grift in which he pretends to be a Spaniard”.
The user, who passes through the handle @lenibriscoe, shared a series of condemning videos from “Hilaria”, from a Good Morning America appearance where she employed a Spanish accent for one Today show stop where she was supposedly unable to remember the English word for “cucumber”.
Further Posts showed Hilaria’s mother discussing her childhood in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and several articles pointed out how she spent almost her entire career practicing medicine in Massachusetts, where she served as an “associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School ”Until she“ retired from both positions in 2012 ”, according to MassLive. (On a video interview she said that she moved to Mallorca, Spain, in 2011, the same year that Hilaria started dating Alec.) An obituary for Hilaria’s grandfather from her father stated that he was an American with roots in the country that “was earlier to the American Revolution, ”while a wedding announcement indicated that his grandfather’s first wife (and mother of his children) was from Nebraska.
Hilaria Baldwin’s CAA speaker page states that she was born in Mallorca, Spain, as well as her IMDb biography and Wikipedia page. She said in a podcast earlier this year: “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 “, adding:” I did not know pop culture “. She stamped the cover of Hola! magazine, a Spanish publication based in Madrid, where she was identified as Spanish in the interview and your press release. Alec Baldwin repeatedly referred to her as “Spanish” online. And she did a series of appearances in Latina magazine, that she is enthusiastically promoted (Spain is not part of Latin America, by the way), and has he referred to Spain as his “home”.
If that were not enough, his five children with Baldwin have Spanish names.
It looks like Hilaria’s real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas, according to her old MySpace page and who claims to be your former classmates. She attended Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts, and in her senior yearbook is listed as “Hillary Hayward-Thomas”:
A Nexis poll revealed that her New York voter registration is under the names “Hilaria L. Baldwin” and “Hillary Hayward-Thomas”.
In the face of Twitter’s speech, Hilaria took advantage of Instagram to explain her side of the story. “The first thing I said to my husband was that I was born in Boston,” she said. “I spent a large part of my childhood in Spain. My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long time. And I came here – I was moving around a lot, but I came here when I was 19 to go to college. “
She continued: “I never said that my mother was Spanish, my family is a great mix of so many different things … I really don’t understand why this is becoming such a big thing. I want to take this seriously, but I don’t want it to be sudden either. I’m apologizing for who I am. Because, at this point, I’m beginning to feel that I’m being attacked for who I am, and that no answer is the right answer. “
“It seems that Hilaria’s real name is Hillary.“
Alec Baldwin also accessed Instagram and, over the course of eight meandering minutes, seemed to deny that there was any merit to the controversy surrounding Hilaria.
“Most of what has been said and – again, I don’t want to list what those things are – is false,” he said. “And some are so spectacularly false … As much as it hurts, the only thing I can do is talk to half the audience or part of the audience who understand what I mean when I say, ‘Consider the source. ‘Consider the source. ”
Now, there is still a possibility that Hilaria Baldwin spent a considerable amount of time in Spain as a child and may have Spanish culture, but it does not seem likely that she is Spanish. (Her New York Times the wedding announcement says that she “was raised in Boston and Spain”.)
In a bizarre twist, the first person who seems to have questioned Hilaria Baldwin about all of this is none other than Genevieve Sabourin, Alec Baldwin’s stalker. In 2012, Sabourin tweeted: “Hilaria, wife of Alec Baldwin, REAL name: Hilary Hayward-Thomas.LIED wile calling me 911 with her fake name. She was eventually convicted of persecuting Alec Baldwin and sentenced to six months in prison.