Amy Schumer feels bad for Hilaria Baldwin and the role she inadvertently played in the beginning of the controversy that may have damaged Baldwin’s reputation for “authenticity” and his thriving career as an influencer, giving advice on parenting, well-being and yoga.
Hilaria Baldwin’s controversy consumed the Internet in early 2021 and focused on Alec Baldwin’s wife, apparently branding herself as a glamorous immigrant from Spain.
In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Schumer agrees with many that the controversy was “so insane” and “fun”, especially after a year full of pandemics in 2020 and just before the news cycle was consumed by the US Capitol uprising. United States.
“I think Hilaria is probably the only person who is happy with the Capitol insurrection, because it distracted (the people) (from his scandal),” joked the comedian.
In his comments, Schumer tried to walk a fine line between offering sympathy to someone humiliated in a public scandal and, with humor, calling Hilaria Baldwin for a situation that many say was self-inflicted.
Hilaria Baldwin, born Hillary Hayward-Thomas in Boston, had a Spanish accent during TV or podcast appearances. The mother of five young children also had no objection when official biographies or cover stories in Spanish publications said she was born in Spain or referred to Spanish as her “native” language.
“She is amazing and I wish her and her family the best,” Schumer told Entertainment Tonight. “I hope she visits Spain as much as she wants.”
“Look, she’s a mother,” continued Schumer. “She has a million and a half children, and that is very difficult. So, I just don’t want them to have a bad time. But also, you can’t just pretend you’re from Spain. “
Questions about Hilaria Baldwins’ true heritage have been simmering for years in different corners of the Internet. But Schumer pushed the questions to the audience after mocking one of Hilaria Baldwin’s photos, where she is just wearing lingerie while holding one of her children or doing a complicated yoga move.
The former ballroom dancer, 37, said she wanted to show pride in her post-baby body. She posed for a photo, holding her new child and wearing only a bra and panties, which showed an enviably flat stomach. Schumer again posted the image on his Instagram account with a cheeky caption, suggesting it was her in the photo.
Hilaria Baldwin questioned Schumer and others for making fun of her photo and took a video message to Instagram, calling people to “embarrass the body”.
People who watched Hilaria Baldwin’s video realized that her Spanish accent was missing and it was then that people started asking questions about her heritage, with Twitter and Instagram detectives revealing information about how she grew up in Boston and that her family dates back to several generations in the United States.
Videos also started circulating that showed Hilaria Baldwin saying in interviews that she did not move to the United States until she was 19 to go to college, but her parents did not retire to the island of Mallorca until 2011, when she was 27 Hilaria she also talked about the “35 or 40 family members who came from Spain” for her wedding in 2012 to Baldwin, and she forgot the English word “cucumber” during a show cooking segment on “Today”.
As Hilaria Baldwin was accused of cultural appropriation, questions also arose about what Alec Baldwin knew about his wife’s true heritage. He told David Letterman in 2013 that his wife was “from Spain”, and he joked imitating his Spanish accent.
In an interview with The New York Times, Hilaria Baldwin said she never claimed to be from Spain. She said she divided her time, when she was growing up, between the United States and Spain, although she did not provide details about where she lived at that time. She also suggested that she had spent so much time in Spain that she naturally developed an accent and sometimes forgot the words when sliding between Spanish and English.
Hilaria told the Times, somewhat elliptically, “There is nothing I am doing wrong and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a limit”.
Since the controversy broke out in late December, Hilaria Baldwin has apparently put her influential efforts on Instagram on hold.
She didn’t post anything last month, a dramatic withdrawal from a self-styled “excessive sharer” who regularly posted photos of herself or her children using or playing with products for which she had sponsorship deals. His popular podcast “Mom Brain” also did not release any new episodes.