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Within the first episode of their TLC actuality present, “The Baldwins,” (premiering Sunday, Feb. 23 at 10 p.m.), Alec and Hilaria Baldwin tackle criticism that Hilaria is a “gold digger.”
Through the premiere, tweets are proven of critics alleging that Hilaria, 41, married Alec, 66, for his fame and cash.
The couple, who share seven children, tied the knot in 2012 when Hilaria was 27 and Alec was 53.
“I haven’t Googled myself in a very long time, so I don’t know what the word on the street is, but I’ve heard some rumors,” Hilaria tells the cameras. “There’s certain things I can understand. If I looked at a 27-year-old yoga instructor that was dating a 53-year-old rich and famous actor, what would I think?”
Hilaria and Alec are the mother and father of Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo and Marilu, 4, and Ilaria, 2. Alec additionally has an grownup daughter, Eire, 29, along with his ex-wife, Kim Basinger.
The “It’s Complicated” star has regularly made headlines for having a brief fuse and entering into altercations with photographers, however Hilaria feels “the world very much misunderstands Alec.”
“He is a very tender soul,” she explains.
Turning to Alec, she provides: “People think that I married you for money, fame, glamour, all of these things…Why I married you is because you’re a good looking guy. You were a good looking guy.”
Alec jokingly berates her for saying “were” within the past-tense.
“Can he be a curmudgeon? Absolutely. Can he be set in his ways? Absolutely,” she goes on. “But he’s really fantastic. He’s funny, he’s kind, he’s handsome, he’s extraordinarily smart, and he’s so generous.”
Earlier than marrying the Emmy winner, Hilaria — the daughter of a Harvard med faculty professor mom and a Georgetown-educated lawyer father — describes herself as having a easy lifetime of instructing yoga, “mopping the floors, cleaning the mats,” and being “happy as a clam.”
“So, all of a sudden this idea that I was going to marry Alec and walk around really fancy, that was not where my experience in life is,” she explains.
The “Beetlejuice” actor chimes in: “I fell in love with my wife because she’s so special. I had never met anybody like this before, never.”
He provides that after they met, “her life was, I’m not gonna say simple, but it was in a sense a lot simpler” with out the publicity the couple recurrently will get, “and some notoriety with it.”
Hilaria additionally addresses criticism that her Spanish accent is “fake” onscreen, and the couple open up about Baldwin’s manslaughter “Rust” trial.
A choose in July dismissed a cost of involuntary manslaughter in opposition to Baldwin within the demise of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
“This past year there was times I’d lay in bed and think, ‘Wow I can’t, I can’t get up,’” Alec reveals.
Hilaria maintains that amid the “Rust” tragedy, “everyone close to Alec has seen his mental health decline.”
“He was diagnosed with PTSD,” she provides. “In [Alec’s] darkest moments, [he thinks], ‘If an accident had to have happened this day, why am I still here, why couldn’t it have been me?””
“The Baldwins” airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on TLC.
