Hilaria Baldwin ‘Fake Accent’ Drama Resurfaces, but With Different ResultsLisa WhiteWed, February 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM UTC

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Actor Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria addressed her fake accent controversy recently. The former Dancing With the Stars contestant made mention of this at a Gurus Magazine Valentine’s-themed luncheon years following the public scrutiny.

Social media lit her up in 2020 when people noticed inconsistencies in both Hilaria’s background story as well as her accent. She notably appeared in a Today show cooking segment with a heavy accent, saying she did not know the word “cucumber.”

Hilaria Baldwin is reportedly able to laugh at the “fake accent” chaos of her past

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Page Six reports Hilaria laughed at the accent hubub during the magazine’s lunch after Gurus Magazine founder and stylist Derek Warburton thanked guests for coming. “Hilaria said ‘thank you’ in her signature faux Spanish accent and Derek joked back, ‘I love you whatever accent they think you use.’” Then about 50 people broke out in laughter, says a source.

Among attendees at the event held at Maison Close were designer Nicole Miller, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Sutton Stracke, publicist Anna Rothschild and former America’s Next Top Model judge Nolé Marin.

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However, the Boston-bred mother of seven, born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, blames the accent on “code-switching.” In her book, Manual Not Included, she says ADHD and dyslexia contributed to the mix-up. The diagnoses “greatly impact” her speech, reading, listening, focus, memory and self-confidence, she wrote.

While addressing the public in 2020, Hilaria explained, “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 [while] I’m here.”

In her TLC reality show with Alec, The Baldwins, Hilaria mentioned the uproar, saying, “I love English, I also love Spanish, and when I mix the two it doesn’t make me inauthentic, and when I mix the two, that makes me normal. I’d be lying if I said [the controversy] didn’t make me sad and it didn’t hurt and it didn’t put me in dark places.”

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