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Victoria Rowell is on a crusade to expose what really goes down behind the scenes of daytime televisions top-rated soap opera 'The Young and the Restless.'And it's not the thinly-veiled, campy drama that she touches upon with her latest tome, 'Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva,' either.
Backstage at Steve Harvey's 8th Annual Hoodie Awards in Las Vegas, the 11-time NAACP Image Award winner talked exclusively to Blackvoices.com about the discrimination she suffered while on the set of the CBS serial.
From white actresses running around with an "afro wig" and spitting in her face on set, to wardrobe staffers making the black actors keep the tags on their clothes so they can return them, Rowell tells it all.
The Portland, Maine broke down her mission to stop, what she refers to as, "soap opera apartheid."
Watch the provocative video interview below.