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Hilaria Baldwin blames Spanish heritage scandal on everyone but herself

Hillary “Hilaria” Baldwin has opened up about being accused of faking her background — insisting it was everyone else’s fault for assuming she was Spanish.

Alec Baldwin’s wife told The New York Times in an interview posted early Wednesday that she had always hidden her parents’ true background as bourgeois Bostonians purely in an innocent attempt to protect their privacy.

And she claimed she was raised by a father with such “deep, deep, deep bonds” with the European nation that, “When we weren’t in Spain, we called it ‘we brought Spain into our home.’”

The world then misrepresented her innocent pronouncement about “going home” to Spain, because they did not realize that “home is where my parents are going to be,” Baldwin claimed to the outlet.

“If my parents move to China, I am going to go to China and say, ‘I’m going home,’” claimed Baldwin, who was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas.

People were also far too literal about her statements about family roots in Spain, she claimed, saying she was merely speaking colloquially about family friends there.

“These people who I call my family, I am learning in this particular situation, I have to say, ‘People who we have considered to be our family,'” she claimed.

The problem was compounded by her reps at Creative Artists Agency using unverified information from the internet to write a sloppy bio about her, which she was unaware about until the scandal blew up, she claimed.

“It was very disappointing,” she griped.

Similar mistakes led to magazines like ¡Hola! and Latina repeatedly calling her a Spaniard, including on cover stories.

Yet despite twice posing for the cover of ¡Hola! — which has written some 20 items about her on its English-language website so far this year — she simply never realized the error because she never reads about herself, the Instagram-loving, selfie-obsessed former yoga teacher claimed.

Even the most viral video of her — seemingly forgetting the English word “cucumber” while speaking with a heavy Spanish accent on the “Today” show — can innocently be explained as a “brain fart” as she nervously made one of her first major TV appearances, she said.

“Today we have an opportunity to clarify for people who have been confused — and have been confused in some ways by people misrepresenting me,” she claimed to the Times.

“There is not something I’m doing wrong, and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a boundary.”

The growing scandal has been “very surreal” because she has been “very clear” about her background, she insisted of errors only made by others.

“I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since,” she told the Times.

“For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it’s not enough.”

Despite her claims of innocence, old friends admit they are baffled at her transformation — especially changing her name from Hillary.

“The whole ‘Hilaria’ thing is hilarious to me,” her competitive dance partner from 2006 to 2009, Alexander Rechits, told The Times.

“It was always 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 you weren’t born in Spain?”



Amazing mental gymnastics.

No she lied. She said she was born in Spain and moved to the US when she was 19 to study in Uni, which was all a lie. That is not misunderstanding.
Her parents are three generation Americans, she is just some upper class white girl from Massachusetts. Her parents retired to Spain, many people do. That doesn't make you Spanish. But keep trying to explain it, it's funny.