Amy Schumer On The Hilaria Baldwin Controversy

Quick recap: Schumer reposted (and has since deleted) a picture of Baldwin holding her child in lingerie with a nearly identical caption as a joke. The pic generated comments towards Baldwin that she addressed in a series of videos on Instagram — and those videos are part of what kicked up the whole “Hilaria from Boston” business.

“Oh my god, I really don’t even know what to say,” Schumer said. “I didn’t know that was going to happen, obviously. I feel like it was so insane and entertaining that I think Hilaria is probably the only person who is happy about the insurrection in the Capitol, because it distracted [people] from that.”

As for the joke that predated the entire controversy? Schumer said she “just thought it was funny” at the time: “It’s a little insane to be in, like, lingerie with your baby…then I saw that she made a video and she seemed a little bit upset. Not at me, but about the comments she was getting.”

“We were just playing with each other, and then the whole Spain thing came out. I just felt like everybody else watching it. Just like, ‘What is going on?’ I thought we were still kinda playing, so I wrote, ‘Hey, look, I love Spain too.’ But then it became this whole big thing and people were really upset so I just took it down [too].”

Along with the mea culpas, Schumer had some reflections that Hillary—sorry, Hilaria—Baldwin might want to keep in mind: “Look, she’s a mom. She has a million and a half kids, and that’s really hard. So I just — I don’t want them to be going through a bad time.”

“But also, you can’t just pretend you’re from Spain.”