Hilaria Baldwin’s “Dancing With the Stars” journey came to an end Wednesday — and she grabbed the mic post-elimination.
The former yoga instructor took the opportunity to gush over her “incredible experience” competing on Season 34.
“I am so grateful to all of you, I’m so grateful to my children and my family,” the 41-year-old said. “I’m cheering on everybody in the cast. This has been an amazing time.”
Meanwhile, Hilaria’s pro partner, Gleb Savchenko, praised her as an “inspiration” and labeled her a “superhero and an incredible mom.”
The dancer, 42, added, “Listen, I’m so proud of you.”
Hilaria cried in a post-show interview about her heart being “a little broken,” telling “Good Morning America” that she felt “sad because this has been wonderful.”
Her and Savchenko’s Disney Night quickstep to “Cantina Band” from “Star Wars: A New Hope” left judges Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba and Derek Hough conflicted.
“The force is still with you,” Tonioli, 69, said of the performance. “Whatever you did, worked. I was looking for something wrong; I didn’t see it.”
Inaba, 57, agreed, adding, “It was beautiful. Here is the contender.”
However, Hough, 40, complimented Baldwin’s “amazing talent” but said she should have featured more quickstep content in the dance — a note for Savchenko, who choreographed the piece.
Despite the mixed feedback, Baldwin and Savchenko still received one of the higher scores of the night: 23/30. Eliminations are determined by the the judges’ scores combined with viewer votes.
Fans railed against the axing via Instagram, with one writing, “She danced extremely well. She shouldn’t have left, but then … this show is partly dancing and partly popularity.”
Another called Baldwin’s exit a “class act,” writing, “I have to say, she said one of the most gracious and beautifully kind exit interviews I’ve ever heard from a celebrity on ‘DWTS.’”
The remaining contestants heading into week five are Whitney Leavitt, Alix Earle, Elaine Hendrix, Jordan Chiles, Dylan Efron, Jen Affleck, Robert Irwin, Scott Hoying and Danielle Fishel.
Baldwin spoke about her “DWTS” journey on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, in an episode that aired earlier that same day.
The fitness guru insisted she is not a “nepo wife” who was cast because she is married to Alec Baldwin.
“I’m a hard worker. I want to earn things on my own merit,” she explained. “If he ever made a call that would make things easier on me, I would feel like I didn’t deserve it.”
The “Baldwins” star similarly told Page Six last month that she did not “campaign” for the part.
In the September interview, she recalled, “They called me and were like, ‘Do you wanna do this?’ And I just made a spur-of-the-moment decision. I had to move my whole family.”
Hilaria and Alec, 67, have welcomed seven children — Carmen, 12, Rafael, 10, Leonardo, 9, Romeo, 6, Eduardo, 5, María, also 5, and Ilaria, 3 — since tying the knot in 2012.
