"Frida" star Salma Hayek, in a recent interview for a French publication, shared that her daughter with Francois-Henri Pinault, had once become a target of discrimination, TVNotas reported.
Sayek said that her 8-year old daughter Valentina handled the insults during an incident and it did not discouraged the kid, but it was an event that really bothered Hayek. "My daughter was insulted by another kid. Racist insults. I kindly tried to get the other kid to stop, but there was no way. And the kid's mother didn't try to do anything to stop him. I found the whole thing to be crazy," Hayek said.
"I had to take my daughter by the hand and march her away from there so that the situation wouldn't escalate," the actress added.
And when they left, Sayek made sure that the racist insults did not let her daughter down. She said further, "When we were pretty distant I looked at her and told her, 'I feel bad for not being more firm with that kid who insulted you.' But she looked at me and responded, 'He was so dumb that I don't even pay attention. He was stupid and was saying foolishness.'"
In August this year, the Mexican actress also shared to The Huffington Post her own racism-related experience at a movie theater at Los Angeles, where a man refused to sit next beside her and told her to "go back to her country."
"Not only do I have my citizenship, but even before it was America, this was already my country, and if you don't like it, you can move," Hayek told the man. ""I sort of felt sorry for this person for just being so out of touch with the world, with his own humanity."
"I think America has a very severe problem with discrimination that we try to overlook," she said further.
Hayek was recently honored at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood Awards last week, along with Kate Winslet and Carey Mulligan.
