Alec Baldwin has been attempting to ‘cheer up’ his wife Hilaria amid her Spanish heritage scandal

Alec Baldwin has been attempting to ‘cheer up’ his wife Hilaria amid her Spanish heritage scandal

Alec Baldwin has been attempting to cheer up his wife Hilaria in the midst of her Spanish heritage scandal.

Hilaria, 37, has been the subject of major backlash after she was accused of faking her Spanish background, but fortunately her husband, 62, has been doing his best to support her throughout the controversy.

‘They celebrated New Year’s in the Hamptons. While Hilaria has seemed a bit upset, Alec has been around to comfort her,’ a source told People.

‘He has been supportive’: Alec Baldwin has been attempting to cheer up his wife Hilaria in the midst of her Spanish heritage scandal

‘He has been supportive and has tried to cheer her up.’

Since Hilaria’s Spanish heritage came under scrutiny last month, the couple have been ‘very upset’ over the backlash.

The Boston-born yoga teacher, who had long played up her purported links to Spain, has been ‘deeply affected’ that heritage is now ‘being questioned,’ a source told Entertainment Tonight.

However her Saturday Night Live star husband ‘unconditionally supports and loves Hilaria in whatever she does,’ the source claimed.

Support system: Baldwin has been doing his best to raise his wife's spirits in the midst of the scandal (pictured 2020)

Support system: Baldwin has been doing his best to raise his wife’s spirits in the midst of the scandal (pictured 2020)

Controversy: Hilaria has been accused of faking her Spanish heritage

Controversy: Hilaria has been accused of faking her Spanish heritage 

Hilaria has since clarified she was born and raised in Boston’s posh Beacon Hill district to parents (who moved to Spain in 2011) with deep roots in the United States.

Baldwin even went as far as to blame her agency CAA and ¡Hola! magazine for mistakenly referring to her as Spanish in an interview with the New York Times last Wednesday.

‘Home is where my parents are going to be,’ the Mom Brain podcaster bizarrely explained. ‘If my parents move to China, I am going to go to China and say, “I’m going home.”‘

Clarification: Hilaria has since clarified she was born and raised in Boston's posh Beacon Hill district to parents (who moved to Spain in 2011) with deep roots in the United State

Clarification: Hilaria has since clarified she was born and raised in Boston’s posh Beacon Hill district to parents (who moved to Spain in 2011) with deep roots in the United State

But as far back as 2011, Hillary perpetuated her fictional heritage by tweeting that she was a ‘Spanish yoga teacher.’

As recent as two months ago, Baldwin’s husband Alec told Aaron and Rohit’s Hopeless Show ‘my wife is from Spain’ and he said the same on Late Show with David Letterman in 2013. 

The defiant NYU alum and the 62-year-old Oscar nominee are now laying low in their 18th-century farmhouse in East Hampton with their five children and two nannies.

Laying low: The couple have been staying at their 18th century farmhouse in East Hampton with their children

Laying low: The couple have been staying at their 18th century farmhouse in East Hampton with their children