Longtime ‘Young & The Restless’ star Eric Braeden rips Eva Longoria for ‘derogatory remarks about daytime actors’

Ex-“Desperate Housewives” actress Eva Longoria has caught the wrath of Eric Braeden, the longtime mainstay of “The Young & Restless,” for making what he deemed “derogatory remarks” about acting in soaps.

Braeden, who has portrayed the ruthless tycoon Victor Newman on the long-running CBS serial, took umbrage with comments Longoria made about her humble daytime drama beginnings during a recent interview on CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” that aired Sunday.

The 48-year-old actress, currently promoting her upcoming film “Flamin’ Hot,” played Isabella Braña on the CBS soap opera for two years in the early aughts.

“When I got ‘Young and the Restless,’ it didn’t pay enough for me to live off being an actor. So I continued being a headhunter and ‘Young and the Restless,’” she revealed. “And I would hide the fact I was on ‘Young and the Restless’ to my clients, because they didn’t want, like, a dumb actress handing their accounts.”

She said she denied her soap experience to a client who’d recognized her.

“I was like the opposite of a publicist’s dream. I was like, ‘Don’t tell anybody I’m on that show’ because I was still making more money on my day job,” said the Corpus Christi, Texas native, who also appeared on “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “General Hospital.”

Those recollections didn’t sit well with Braeden, who has been on the show since 1980.

“EVA LONGORIA: you just made derogatory remarks about daytime actors!” the 81-year-old Emmy Award winner wrote on Twitter. “You simply weren’t good enough to survive the pressures of this medium! You were very lucky to get on that ‘housewife’ show! You did one show in 8-12 days, with mediocre but salacious dialogue!”

Braeden didn’t stop tearing into the L’Oreal spokesmodel.

“Our actresses would run rings around you!! And they did then!! From Robert [De Niro] to whoever they all are, many of them started in the medium you denigrate! It shows a complete lack of class!!”

Many of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities cut their teeth on daytime dramas. They include Oscar winner Julianne Moore (“As The World Turns”), Golden Globe winner Demi Moore (”General Hospital”), “Creed III” star and director Michael B. Jordan (“All My Children”) and “S.W.A.T” star Shemar Moore (“The Young & The Restless”).

“When people who have not made it in the [daytime TV] medium or have no idea what it is about say pejorative things about it, I get pissed off!” Braeden fumed. “Because I’m one of few people in it who have done it all, from theater to films to loads of nighttime guest star roles! I know what I’m talking about!’”

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, “The Young & The Restless” is CBS’ longest running soap opera.