Hiliara Baldwin is opening up about what she claims really led to her dismissal from Dancing With the Stars.
“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. 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,” Baldwin, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly on Sunday, October 12, while attending the 2025 Guru Awards at the Cicada Club in Los Angeles.
Three days after Baldwin and her professional dancing partner, Gleb Savchenko, were voted off the hit reality TV show on Tuesday, October 7, Baldwin claimed via Instagram Live that she was bullied off the show — intentionally.
“Very coordinated, very strategic bullying,” Baldwin said on Friday, October 10. “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.”
On Sunday, the reality TV star told Us that while she’s “glad my other friends were voted for,” she “obviously would love to dance.”
“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.”
Baldwin is not without controversy. During the first episode of the Baldwin family’s TLC series The Baldwins, she addressed past drama surrounding her use of a Spanish accent after she was accused in 2020 of fabricating the cadence of her voice.
“I’m raising my kids to be bilingual, I was raised bilingual,” she explained in a confessional on the show. “My family — all my nuclear family — now lives over in Spain. I want to teach my kids pride in speaking more than one language. I think just growing up and speaking two languages is extremely special.”
While Baldwin admitted in Friday’s video that she ultimately has no control over how other people perceive her, she called out those who she claims have “harassed” her for “years.”
“Some of the people who have harassed me for years and misrepresented and outright have lied about me,” she claimed. “I know that they’ll only be satisfied when I’m gone. I think that nothing I can say or do will be right. In their eyes, I am always getting everything wrong, and I’m too much and not enough. And there’s nothing I can do about that.”
Instead, Baldwin said at the start of the video that she was speaking out in honor of World Mental Health Day, adding that she is aware of the “elephant in the room” before diving into her claims.
“I would be remiss if I didn’t address the elephant in the room, which is that there was some bullying going on aimed at me over the past few weeks,” Baldwin said, going on to add that she “cannot in good conscience stay silent.”
“For me, experiencing something that I know plagues so many while having a big platform, it torments me, and it makes me defiant,” she said. “Because some people don’t have the blessing that I have of all of you who support me and write me kind things every day and are excited to see the different projects that I do and things that I create. And that makes me sad because I don’t want anyone else to feel alone. I want to lend myself to help.”
Baldwin also opened up about being dismissed from the show in a Thursday, October 9, interview on the ABC dance competition’s official companion podcast hosted by season 33 champion Joey Graziadei.
“This has been an experience that I never thought I would have, and I’m so grateful,” she explained. “And to meet [Gleb], that’s been incredible. I also am grateful that everybody else gets to continue to dance. … I really think we are a team, so my team continues to go on.”
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