Billy Baldwin and his wife Chynna Phillips support Hilaria Baldwin amid her Spanish heritage controversy: 'None of us are perfect'

• In a new interview for Page Six, Billy Baldwin and his wife, Chynna Phillips, shared their support for Billy's brother Alec as the controversy around his wife Hilaria's upbringing and Spanish accent continues.
• Hilaria, whose birth name is Hillary Thomas, was born in Boston to white American parents, but in dozens of interviews seemingly led people to believe she was from Spain, often speaking with a Spanish accent.
• "This is probably an awkward and embarrassing time for Alec and Hilaria," Billy said.
• According to the actor, he's "been texting Alec the whole time to make sure he's OK and if he needs anything."
• And Phillips also shared a message of support for the couple, telling Page Six that she experienced similar situations growing up with parents who were part of the popular 1960s group, The Mamas & the Papas.
• "I feel terrible," Phillips added in a recent YouTube video. "Who's going to throw the first stone at my sweet sister-in-law? She's a good woman and, you know, none of us are perfect."

Billy Baldwin and Chynna Phillips have spoken out in support of Hilaria and her husband, Alec Baldwin, after the mother of five was accused of faking her Spanish heritage and accent.

In an interview for Page Six published Saturday, Billy and Phillips shared their thoughts on the backlash that their sister-in-law, who was born Hillary Thomas to white American parents, is receiving.

"This is probably an awkward and embarrassing time for Alec and Hilaria," Billy told The New York Post. "I've been texting Alec the whole time to make sure he's OK and if he needs anything."

And Phillips, whose parents were a part of the popular '60s band The Mamas & the Papas, said she was all too familiar with living life in the spotlight and the scrutiny that it could bring.

"My family has been through this before," she told Page Six. "I was born in a fishbowl and this kind of stuff has been happening around me since 1968."

In a YouTube video released last Wednesday, Phillips called Hilaria a "good woman," and expressed her dismay at the controversy.

"I feel terrible. Who's going to throw the first stone at my sweet sister-in-law?" Phillips said in the video (around the 3:00 mark). "She's a good woman and, you know, none of us are perfect. We all have issues."

Billy and Phillips' message of support comes after a tumultuous past few weeks for Hilaria.

When Hilaria posted an Instagram video on December 23, followers noticed that she was speaking with a very American accent - in contrast to past interviews in which she spoke with a Spanish accent.

And around the same time, a viral Twitter thread by the user @lenibriscoe claimed that Hilaria was impersonating a Spanish person. The thread included numerous instances of Hilaria speaking with a Spanish accent, which @lenibriscoe implied was "fake" since Hilaria "grew up in Massachusetts."

Hilaria subsequently responded to the backlash in late December in several Instagram videos posted to her account.

The yoga enthusiast would later address the controversy in an interview with The New York Times.

"The things I have shared about myself are very clear," she said in late December. "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."

"For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again," Hilaria told the newspaper. "And now it seems like it's not enough."

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