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#HilariaBaldwin is defending herself in the wake of the scandal surrounding her accent. The celebrity and entrepreneur addressed the controversy during Sunday’s episode of her family’s TLC reality show “The Baldwins.” If you need a refresher, in 2020, a Twitter post accused Baldwin of faking her Spanish accent. This led to a flurry of posts and articles dissecting, criticizing and mocking said accent. The Daily Beast even accused her of “posing as a Spanish person,” and The Atlantic listed Baldwin as an “identity hoaxer” alongside #RachelDolezal. At the time, Baldwin defended her accent, saying that she identifies as white but that her ethnic background is varied and that she was raised in a Spanish-speaking household. Now, five years on, she has opened up about this particular online controversy. “You know what it’s called? Code-switching,” Baldwin said on Sunday’s episode of “The Baldwins.” “I had to learn about it because the whole world was mean to me, and so I had to learn it. I...

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