Tracey Bregman is soap opera royalty, but there are some people who haven\u2019t been too fond of some of her storylines.<\/p>\n
Bregman recently claimed that her most famous character, Lauren Fenmore in \u201cThe Young and the Restless,\u201d was originally so poorly received that she received death threats.<\/p>\n
She went as far as saying \u201cpeople tried to run me off the freeway\u201d due to her character\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n
Lauren Fenmore made her first appearance in the long-running daytime drama in 1983, and Bregman has been playing her ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the character is a fan favorite now, it wasn\u2019t always that way. In the beginning, Lauren was a bully, and Bregman recalled specifically that her character\u2019s treatment of co-star Beth Maitland\u2019s Traci Abbott was a tough pill for fans to swallow.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the \u201cSoapy\u201d podcast, she confirmed she received backlash for her character\u2019s harsh words and said it was also difficult personally to say those kinds of things to Maitland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was very, very difficult because Beth is one of my best friends for 42 years,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I knew, because we were so close, how she was really feeling about a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
She recalled a story based on Maitland being \u201ca little overweight and being conscious about that,\u201d saying, \u201cThen I had to say the worst things to her, and Beth will tell you that I cried more than she did over it because I could barely get it out sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tracey Bregman received death threats after playing Lauren Fenmore in \u201cThe Young and the Restless.\u201d Faye Sadou\/Retna Ltd \/MediaPunch<\/p>\n
There were \u201cfun times\u201d during filming too, but Bregman said, \u201cI will tell you, it was a double-edged sword playing the mean girl because I would get death threats, and people tried to run me off the freeway.\u201d<\/p>\n
The podcast\u2019s hosts, fellow soap stars Greg Rikaart and Rebecca Budig, were shocked by that.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, it was bad,\u201d Bregman said. \u201cThere were some bad parts that I never really talked about, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bregman has played the role of Lauren in over 2,000 episodes, 1,847 on \u201cThe Young and the Restless\u201d and 377 on \u201cThe Bold and the Beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before she took on the character, she got her start in soap operas by playing Donna Temple Craig in \u201cDays of Our Lives\u201d in over 150 episodes from 1978 to 1980.<\/p>\n
While Lauren eventually became more likable, another soap opera villain wasn\u2019t as lucky.<\/p>\n
The cast of \u201cThe Young and the Restless\u201d in 2019. CBS<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a double-edged sword playing the mean girl,\u201d Bregman claimed. ANDREA RENAULT\/GLOBE PHOTOS<\/p>\n
Last month, \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d actress Eva LaRue spoke about her departure from the show after just one season, admitting it was \u201chard\u201d for her personally that her character was despised by fans after being a fan favorite during her time on \u201cAll My Children.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was hard for me, actually \u2014 for me as a person,\u201d she told Soap Opera Digest. \u201cBecause, in daytime, when you play a character like Maria Santos, love her or hate her, she was not ever meant to be a vilified character. And so it was hard from being that character, being a fan favorite, to being, like, literally hated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe GH fans couldn\u2019t stand [her character]! So that was tough, because especially if you are accustomed to being rooted for, to be rooted against is not as comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tracey Bregman is soap opera royalty, but there are some people who haven\u2019t been too fond of some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[236,88,2294,63374,19332,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-122744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-podcasts","11":"tag-soap-operas","12":"tag-the-young-and-the-restless","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}