Hilaria Baldwin says ‘whole world’ was mean to her over accent

Hilaria Baldwin, wife of Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, opened up about the hate she has received over the years on the March 16 episode of The Baldwins.

Admitting that she worked on her accent after 2020 when people started speculating about the truth behind her Spanish origins, she added, “Growing up in a way where you have multiple cultural influences on you means that you're never going to be able to fit in. You can try. You can chameleon. You know, people who code-switch we’re very good at chameleoning… and you don't even think you're not even thinking about it. It's just normal. It's just natural.”

Speaking to her daughter’s friend, she compared code-switching to speaking to an elderly person, “They say that it's like communication, if you ever talk to a really old person who cannot hear, and I’m gonna emphasize, I'm gonna speak slower. And you're not even really thinking about it. You just start to do it.”

“You know what it's called? Code-switching… I had to learn about it because the whole world was mean to me, and so I had to learn it. It's code-switching,” she added.

Reflecting on the controversy and how she took it in stride, Baldwin continued, “Being in, the spotlight, as people like to call it. People say, 'Oh, don't you get used to it?' No, you don't get used to it. You never get used to people being mean. But you take a deep breath, and I think you learn to distance yourself from it, and so, you know, you just try turning down the volume in my head a bit… and I'm not gonna take it personally.”

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