Hilaria Baldwin says she had to learn about code-switching in the wake of her accent controversy: 'The whole world was mean to me.'

For years, people have accused Hilaria Baldwin of faking a Spanish accent and pretending to be a Spaniard. Hilaria, who is married to Alec Baldwin, was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, but at some point,

Back in 2020, a social media shitstorm emerged when people noticed that Hilaria had been donning a Spanish accent in numerous interviews — even going so far as to forget the English word for "cucumber" in one. The only slight hiccup is that she was born "Hilary" in Boston.