Hilaria Baldwin is attempting to clarify her claims that she was bullied off of Dancing With the Stars.
“They’re gonna vote for all the couples besides me, or besides X person,” Baldwin, 41, alleged during a Monday, November 3, appearance on the “Too Much” podcast. “So that suppresses your fan vote.”
Hilaria, who is married to Alec Baldwin, added that seeing DWTS fans online actively working to vote against her was hurtful.
“It was because they were reaching out to everybody to do it. You open TikTok, you’re like, ‘Oh my God, this is sad,’” she reflected “It hurts your feelings.”
Hilaria decided to publicly make her claims because she said it’s happened to other competitors “in the past.”
“And I don’t care. I’ll be the person who’s crying in front of the world because I’m gonna show my humanity,” she said. “Some people are gonna like that and some people are gonna make fun of me more for that.”
The yoga instructor claimed that since she departed DWTS, fans who participated in the alleged campaign against her have reached out to apologize via direct message.
Hilaria made it clear that her journey on the dancing competition show was a positive experience and she never felt bullied by anyone from the cast.
“Everybody on the show is lovely,” she shared.
Hilaria added that she doesn’t need anyone to “feel bad” for her because her journey ended sooner than she would have liked.
“I had the time of my life,” she said. “I’m only a better, happier person because I did the show.”
Hilaria and her partner Gleb Savchenko were eliminated from DWTS during week four. Following her elimination last month, Hilaria claimed during an Instagram Live that she was bullied off the competition series.
“Very coordinated, very strategic bullying,” she alleged. “And as I feel the darkness that undoubtedly brings to me, I always want to remember that my life belongs to the whole community and I want to leave a lasting mark of courage to speak up against what is simply wrong.”
In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Hilaria opened up about her experience navigating the “mean girls” on TikTok.
“I’m very new to TikTok. I’ve only been on a couple months. It’s interesting because there’s a lot of mean girls,” Hilaria exclusively told Us in October. “I guess what people were doing is they were having campaigns where they wouldn’t just vote for their favorite — because you can vote 10 times for a couple — they were voting for all the other couples except us, so they were boosting everybody else and trying to drown out my fan base.”
Hilaria added that while she “obviously would love to dance” more she was happy for her friends who remained in the competition.
“I have such wonderful things to say. It was sad that it was like that,” she continued. “There’s more good people than bad people. And I just want one day that people can just see me and stop, like, the crazy stuff.”
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