The Young And The Restless' Eric Braeden and Eva Longoria Beef, Explained
Did someone ask for a soap opera in real life? Because we just got one.
When two stars accidentally find themselves in conflict, it's always fascinating to follow. You can pick sides or root for the one you love.
But when the conflict is just a media spat, it always makes you feel a little uncomfortable because you find out that there wasn't really a conflict between them, but just some small talk that didn't end well.
The same thing happened between The Young and the Restless star Eric Braeden and actress Eva Longoria, who, it turns out, used to be a part of the long-running show's cast as well.
Apparently, Longoria is not too happy about this particular time in her past.
As the actress revealed in an interview with Chris Wallace, she kept her work in this soap opera a secret and never told anyone about it.
She didn't even quit her day job at a temp agency where she had the position of a headhunter at the time.
The reason, as she claims, was that the pay for her character Isabella Braña on The Young and The Restless was so low that she simply couldn't afford to lose the money she was making from her day job at the agency.
Another reason she hid her work on the soap is because she thought it was beneath her, and she didn't want people at the temp agency to think of her as a "dumb actress" and not trust her with their accounts.
Well, needless to say, those kind of harsh words hurt The Young and The Restless veteran Eric Braeden, who has played Victor Newman on the CBS soap for more than 40 years.
As it turns out, he has more than enough respect for the soap opera business and cannot believe that she would say such a discrediting thing about it.
Braeden posted on his Twitter that the only reason Longoria could feel that way is because she didn't put enough effort into the work, or simply wasn't "good enough to survive the pressures" of the business.
He then pointed out that her character was not even a series regular and that she played one episode in two weeks.
Well, this kind of behavior doesn't go unnoticed in the media, so Braeden got a lot of criticism for his post. But he doesn't seem to care as long as he's defending the honor of soap operas, and The Young and the Restless in particular.
Source: Eric Braeden, Who's Talking to Chris Wallace