Alec Baldwin leaves Twitter 'for now' dubbing it 'a party where everyone is screaming' - after wife Hilaria was exposed for 'faking her Spanish heritage' when she was born and grew up in Boston
Alec Baldwin appeared to leave Twitter on Monday amid the fall-out from wife Hilaria's on-going scandal in which she was accused of faking her Spanish heritage and accent.
The 62-year-old SNL actor posted a tweet at 9:45am saying: 'Twitter is like a party where everyone is screaming. Not much of a party. Goodbye for now.'
The Academy Award-nominee's departure from the social media site is the latest episode in the unfolding scandal around his wife and mother of their five children, Hilaria, who has been accused of faking her Spanish heritage when she was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
The 30-Rock star previously defended his 36-year-old wife saying in a video in December where he called Twitter is 'a lot of s***'.
Baldwin, who previously won an Emmy for his portrayal of President Donald Trump on SNL, added: 'You have to kind of hack your way through the debris of Twitter. Twitter is just a vast orchard of cr**.'
On January 3 Hilaria Baldwin’s sister-in-law Chynna Phillips defended her in a YouTube video Tuesday saying: 'It's an awkward and embarrassing time for her'.
Alec Baldwin said he was leaving Twitter 'for now', calling the website 'a party where everyone is screaming' in the aftermath of his wife Hilaria's scandal where she was accused of faking her Spanish heritage
The SNL star has defended his wife over the last month, claiming things are posted online that are 'untrue'.
A tweet on December 21 sparked the whole scandal, in which the poster accused Hilaria of faking her heritage when she grew up in the US
The online frenzy began on December 21 when a woman tweeted: 'You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin's commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.'
In the next few days several videos of Hilaria's past TV appearances resurfaced showing her commitment to a Spanish accent, including one in 2015 where she seemingly forgot the English word for 'cucumber'.
A video of Alec on The Late Show in 2013 emerged days after in which he impersonated his wife's 'Spanish' accent, telling David Letterman: 'My wife is from Spain.'
And Hilaria herself indicated in one 2020 interview that she moved from Spain to the US when she was 19 to attend New York University.
After the accusations she 'faked' her Spanish heritage, Hilaria Baldwin, who has five children with her husband, pictured on Instagram, later confessed that her real name is Hillary and she was actually born in Boston, not Majorca
Internet sleuths were quick to uncover details about Hilaria's parents, Dr Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, pictured, who worked in the US for years before retiring to Majorca in 2011
Hilaria's biography on her agency's speakers site stated that she was born on the island of Majorca and raised in Boston, without specifying a timeline for her upbringing.
Her agency later removed that reference and simply listed her professional work history after.
While Hilaria has long described her mother as Spanish, records revealed that Hayward is in fact a fourth-generation Massachusetts resident.
She was was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas to Dr Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, who worked as professors in the US for years before retiring to Majorca in 2011, according to Page Six.
She attended $64,900-a-year The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts.
Several former classmates came forward to confirm that Hilaria was in fact raised in Weston, Massachusetts, by professor parents without a hint of a foreign accent.
Majorcan friends of her parents, who moved to the Spanish island in 2011, said last month that she speaks to them in English.
In January it was revealed that in 2009 she took two attempts to fill out her W9 tax form, dithering between two names, before filling in the name she was born with.
Days after the scandal erupted Hilaria posted a rambling seven-minute video to Instagram in which she said: 'Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl.'
She added: 'Let's be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally, I grew up with two cultures so it's really as simple as that.'
Her video sparked a flurry of memes with some jokingly comparing her to Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug.
Krug, a professor of African American history at George Washington University, pretended to be black her entire career; Dolezal, a former NAACP leader, was unmasked as a white woman in 2015.
Hilaria later told the New York Times of the scandal: 'There is not something I'm doing wrong, and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a boundary.
'I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since,' she told the paper. 'For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it’s not enough.'
When the original poster of the Tweet was asked what she would like to say to Hilaria, she replied: 'I would say she should say sorry to all the immigrants and English second language learners and moms of color who are actually mistaken for their children's nannies'.
Baldwin and Hilaria are parents to five children - daughter Carmen, seven, and sons Rafael, five, Leonardo, four, Romeo, two, and Eduardo, four months.
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