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Hilaria Baldwin is opening up about a “crazy” experience she had that left her thinking about the ways that how people interact with each other in the world have changed. According to the story that Hilaria shared in an Instagram post earlier this week, she was being chased in New York, and none of the people around her who could see what was going on bothered to help — even when she asked them directly. And unfortunately, her husband Alec Baldwin wasn’t there to defend her at the time, either.
Hilaria was walking through a park at the time.
She shared the story in a video that she posted on Instagram, telling her followers about a scary encounter she recently had.
“I was walking through a park and a crazy person was chasing and screaming at me and calling me awful things,” she explained. “And that’s not the crazy part.”
Apparently, the crazy part is that none of the onlookers jumped in to help.
She says no one responded when she asked for help.
“The even crazier part is that I asked for help and the answers were either silence, walking away, they were, ‘I don’t want to get involved,’ I heard a few times, or ‘I don’t know what to do,'” Hilaria said. “And that just got me thinking about all the things that are happening with the world right now. “Those cannot be our answers when people are asking for help.”
She went on to add that if the situation had happened to one of her children, she would want to know that someone helped them.
She wants people to do better.
At the end of the video, Hilaria emphasized, “We have to help people even when we don’t know what to do and even when we don’t want to get involved. We do so because it’s the right thing to do.”
Though when all is said and done, she said she was “totally fine” in her caption, Hilaria also wrote that she wanted everyone to look out for each other more because things like her experience really do happen in real life.
“I share this story only because I think it’s important to get involved,” she wrote. “There is so much going on in the world and i know it’s overwhelming, but apathy can’t win. Thinking that someone else will take care of it for us all, we have to be that someone else.”
