“I don’t need to use her name and I don’t want any problems with her,” Hilaria Baldwin writes of a mystery celebrity in her memoir ‘Manual Not Included’

Is Amy Schumer the mystery celebrity Hilaria Baldwin speaks out about in her new book?

In her wide-ranging new book Manual Not Included, out now, Hilaria, 41, writes about a “famous person, someone I’ve never met, who said nasty and untrue things about me and my family,” including husband Alec Baldwin.

Though she does not mention Schumer, 43, by name, Hilaria writes about a celebrity mentioning her and her family in a “show” and that “she even tried to bait me and Alec via Instagram.”

“We didn’t engage with her and I guess I am proud of that,” she writes. “It made me mad at the system, but here, in this book, is where I can talk about it. I don’t need to use her name and I don’t want any problems with her, and I would like to be left out of any articles that mention her, because she has nothing to do with me. A total stranger.”

Hilaria said she “became very sick with stress” around the time of the special’s release and that she saw one of her kids crying over the comments. “It gutted me because I couldn’t understand how someone could be so inherently cruel,” writes Hilaria.

“I don’t need an apology,” Hilaria writes, later adding, “No matter what, I hope I never meet her.”

In her Netflix special Emergency Contact that debuted in June 2023, Schumer said, “I’m not trying to bully a sociopath — I have a point,” while doing a bit about Hilaria and the controversy her accent sparked in 2020 when people questioned the authenticity of her Spanish origins. “My point is that all evidence points to this woman, since she met her husband, has straight-up pretended to be from Spain.”

Hilaria, who stars on a TLC reality show with her family called The Baldwins, previously apologized for not being “more clear” about her cultural background.

Schumer also poked fun at Hilaria and Alec’s “Von Trapp amount of children” and the names they were given. Hilaria and Alec, 67, who married in 2012, share seven kids: Carmen Gabriela, Rafael Thomas, Leonardo Ángel Charles, Romeo Alejandro David, Eduardo “Edu” Pao Lucas, María Lucía Victoria and Ilaria Catalina Irena.

During a Romper interview published one week after Schumer’s special dropped, Hilaria said, “It is a ridiculous thing to be cruel to another person.”

That wasn’t the first time Schumer has publicly taken aim at Hilaria. In December 2020 — shortly before Hilaria’s heritage controversy emerged — Schumer posted some of Hilaria’s family photos on her own Instagram page, later deleting them and apologizing to Hilaria, who spoke out about receiving negative comments.

Then, in January 2021, Schumer told Entertainment Tonight she chose to delete the posts after Hilaria “seemed a little bit upset.” She added, “I was just like, ‘I don’t want to be mean,’ and she seemed like maybe it hurt her feelings, so I just took it down.”

“She is amazing and I wish her and her family the best. And I hope she gets to visit Spain as much as she wants,” said Schumer, adding, “Look, she’s a mom, 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.”

Schumer, who has made jokes about Alec and the Rust incident, brought up Alec during her interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast in January 2025, recalling awkwardly speaking to him at the gym a “long time ago.”

“Alec Baldwin was there. This is 25 years ago. He was getting water, and I was behind him at the water fountain. I was like, I quoted Glengarry Glen Ross, and I said ‘Water is for closers,’ ” she said. “I should have killed myself instantly. I don’t remember… Like, I blacked out because it was so stupid. I don’t know if he acknowledged me, but I am sorry.”