Hilaria Baldwin claims that her accent, which fluctuates between Spanish and American, is partly due to being neurodivergent and having a brain that is wired “differently.”
“I have ADHD and dyslexia,” the entrepreneur, 41, writes in her new book, “Manual Not Included,” out now.
“And these [diagnoses] greatly impact my speech, my reading, my listening, my focus, my memory and my self-confidence.”
In late 2020, Hilaria — who had long claimed to be from Spain — was outed as having grown up in Boston while spending holidays in the European country.
Interviews were later uncovered where she spoke in different accents. In one of the resurfaced clips, she even claimed to have forgotten the English word for cucumber during a cooking segment on “Today.”
Days after the scandal erupted, Hilaria, who is married to actor Alec Baldwin, took to social media to defend herself.
“I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain,” she explained. “My family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now [while] I’m here.”
However, as Page Six reported, Hilaria’s parents didn’t move to Mallorca until 2011, when she was already 27 years old.
The former yoga instructor married Baldwin, 67, in 2012 and they share seven children: Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo and Marilu, 4, and Ilaria, 2.
The “30 Rock” alum also shares a daughter, 29-year-old Ireland, with his former wife, Kim Basinger.
Hilaria further claims in her tome that her brain is a cyclone of activity due to being neurodivergent.
“I have a brain that is one part English, one part Spanish, seven dollops of mom brain, a heavy pour of distraction when I get stuck or go off on tangents and forget what I am saying while I am saying it,” she writes.
The “Baldwins” star also confesses that she has never discussed “any of this publicly” — until now.
“I just existed in a land where sometimes I spoke one language and sometimes I spoke another, sometimes I mixed them and got mixed up, and I never talked about my processing differences,” she tells readers.
Hilaria admits that the public backlash from the scandal was brutal for her entire family.
“I started to really unravel. I was confused. I felt lost. I missed my family. I couldn’t eat. I got very thin. I started to question my sanity. I started to question if I was a good person,” she recalls.
“I returned to what I used to do as a child, and started to call myself stupid. When I woke up, I wanted to be dead. And I got worse and worse and worse.”
Eventually, Hilaria says she got through the media circus with the help of her husband.
“Alec was so good to me throughout this time,” she gushes in the book. “He had experienced similar situations: people saying awful things about him, trying to destroy him, making others think he was a bad person. He could reach out from a place of real empathy and personal experience.”
Hilaria now accepts that her “brain just works differently,” telling fans, “I can really succeed in the right environments and tasks.”
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