Hilaria Baldwin Claims Dancing With the Stars Bullying Forced Her Off the Show

Hilaria Baldwin got voted off Dancing with the Stars on October 9 and then spent the next day making it very clear how she thinks it went down: online hate helped push her out.

Her take, in her words

'I did get bullied off the show.'

That was Baldwin on Instagram Live after the elimination. She is 41, partnered this season with pro Gleb Savchenko, and says the steady pile-on she faced across four weeks was not just background noise — she believes it played a role in the result.

How she addressed it

• Instagram Live: Right after she was eliminated on October 9, Baldwin said she believes a coordinated wave of hate online helped get her and Gleb sent home. She did not hedge.
• The show’s official podcast: She then talked with Joey Graziadei — yes, the winner of season 33 — and widened the conversation to how people treat each other on the internet, specifically calling out what she sees as women turning on other women. Her point: 'We don’t see each other. We make enemies out of each other... We need to stop. We will never get anywhere.'
• World Mental Health Day video: The next day, she used the moment to call out what she described as coordinated bullying aimed at her over the past few weeks. She also said people who meet her in person are often surprised by the negativity around her because, as she put it, she is none of the things her critics say — and that breaks her heart.

The tone and the context

There’s no soft-pedaling here. Baldwin framed the backlash as a problem bigger than a TV contest — a broad online culture issue — while still tying it directly to her exit. And for the super-fans keeping score, taking this to the show’s own podcast with Graziadei is a very on-brand, inside-the-machine way to address it.

Despite all that, she did end on a gracious note: she says she’s grateful for the run she had on Dancing with the Stars and is still rooting for her castmates.