Ay dios mios!
Hilaria Baldwin found herself in another Spanish-speaking pickle after a video showed the self-proclaimed Spaniard forgetting how to pronounce a commonly used English word despite being from Massachusetts.
In the clip obtained by Daily Mail, Alec Baldwin’s wife — real name Hillary Hayward-Thomas — was cooking a “traditional” Spanish dish for her holiday guests when she blanked on the word “onions.”
Dressed in flannel pajamas, the 40-year-old yoga instructor boasted about the authenticity of her recipe in her best Spanglish accent.
“I learned this from when I was a kid, don’t look it up online because you’ll learn something different,” Baldwin said in what appeared to be a heavy faux accent while in the kitchen with a friend.
She shared that the secret to her tortilla dish was not cutting the potatoes “too tiny.”
While continuing to talk about the recipe, Baldwin struggled to remember the word “onions” while telling the camera, “My husband hates…cebollas [onions in Spanish].”
Luckily, her friend helped her out, reminding her of the English word.
This isn’t the first time that the actor’s wife has been absentminded when it comes to the English language.
She caught flak in 2015 when she forgot the word for “cucumber” during a six-minute segment on the “Today” show.
While making “authentic” gazpacho, Baldwin listed the ingredients.
“We have very few ingredients,” she told Telemundo TV host Evi Siskos, with whom she appeared alongside that day.
“We have tomatoes, we have, um, how do you say in English? Cucumber!”
Fans immediately slammed Baldwin, accusing her of faking her accent while noting she sounded English in several on social media videos. Some of her former classmates also addressed the backlash.
“I went to high school with her. Genuinely lovely person, I recall, but fully a white girl from Cambridge,” one posted on X (formerly Twitter).
Another said: “I went to high school with her. She was perfectly nice and serious about ballroom dancing. Her name was indeed Hillary Hayward-Thomas and she did not have her current accent.
“I believe she and her brother Jeremy (also nice) grew up in Boston and were white people.”
After being called out on her heritage, Baldwin defended herself and admitted her name was Hillary.
“There’s some stuff that needs to be clarified,” she stated. “There’s been some questions about where I’m born, I’m born in Boston … I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain, my family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now, I’m here.”
She also claimed she grew up speaking both English and Spanish and wants to raise her seven children to be bilingual.
Alec’s wife attended Cambridge School of Weston School in Weston, Massachusetts and told “Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages” in 2020 that she moved to New York from Spain when she was 19 to attend NYU: “I came for school and I never, ever left.”
While she lives in the U.S., Baldwin’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, reportedly live in Mallorca after leaving the States in 2011.
