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Gossip & rumors: soap opera star tracey bregman claims 'people

GOSSIP & RUMORS: Soap opera star Tracey Bregman claims ‘people tried to run me off the freeway’ over villainous TV role

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Tracey Bregman is soap opera royalty, but there are some people who havenโ€™t been too fond of some of her storylines.

Bregman recently claimed that her most famous character, Lauren Fenmore in โ€œThe Young and the Restless,โ€ was originally so poorly received that she received death threats.

She went as far as saying โ€œpeople tried to run me off the freewayโ€ due to her characterโ€™s behavior.

Lauren Fenmore made her first appearance in the long-running daytime drama in 1983, and Bregman has been playing her ever since.ย 

While the character is a fan favorite now, it wasnโ€™t always that way. In the beginning, Lauren was a bully, and Bregman recalled specifically that her characterโ€™s treatment of co-star Beth Maitlandโ€™s Traci Abbott was a tough pill for fans to swallow.

Speaking on the โ€œSoapyโ€ podcast, she confirmed she received backlash for her characterโ€™s harsh words and said it was also difficult personally to say those kinds of things to Maitland.

โ€œThat was very, very difficult because Beth is one of my best friends for 42 years,โ€ she said. โ€œAnd I knew, because we were so close, how she was really feeling about a lot of things.โ€

She recalled a story based on Maitland being โ€œa little overweight and being conscious about that,โ€ saying, โ€œThen 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.โ€

Tracey Bregman received death threats after playing Lauren Fenmore in โ€œThe Young and the Restless.โ€ Faye Sadou/Retna Ltd /MediaPunch

There were โ€œfun timesโ€ during filming too, but Bregman said, โ€œI 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.โ€



The podcastโ€™s hosts, fellow soap stars Greg Rikaart and Rebecca Budig, were shocked by that.

โ€œNo, it was bad,โ€ Bregman said. โ€œThere were some bad parts that I never really talked about, actually.โ€

Bregman has played the role of Lauren in over 2,000 episodes, 1,847 on โ€œThe Young and the Restlessโ€ and 377 on โ€œThe Bold and the Beautiful.โ€



Before she took on the character, she got her start in soap operas by playing Donna Temple Craig in โ€œDays of Our Livesโ€ in over 150 episodes from 1978 to 1980.

While Lauren eventually became more likable, another soap opera villain wasnโ€™t as lucky.

The cast of โ€œThe Young and the Restlessโ€ in 2019. CBS
โ€œIt was a double-edged sword playing the mean girl,โ€ Bregman claimed. ANDREA RENAULT/GLOBE PHOTOS

Last month, โ€œGeneral Hospitalโ€ actress Eva LaRue spoke about her departure from the show after just one season, admitting it was โ€œhardโ€ for her personally that her character was despised by fans after being a fan favorite during her time on โ€œAll My Children.โ€

โ€œIt was hard for me, actually โ€” for me as a person,โ€ she told Soap Opera Digest. โ€œBecause, 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.

โ€œThe GH fans couldnโ€™t 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.โ€



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