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Eric Braeden, ‘Y&R’s’ Victor Newman, Blames Hackers for N-Word Tweet

Actor Eric Braeden attends the 37th Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race Practice Day on April 1, 2014 in Long Beach, California.
Actor Eric Braeden attends the 37th Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race Practice Day on April 1, 2014 in Long Beach, California.

*Followers of Eric Braeden on Twitter were shocked to see a tweet posted by “The Young & The Restless” legend, which featured a meme of himself with a caption that included the N-word.

“If you know this ni**a, yo grandma helped raise you,” read the meme, which drew an immediate negative reaction among his fans on Facebook and Twitter.

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Braeden eventually deleted it, but, not before the image was screenshotted and reposted around the Internet. The actor is blaming hackers for the tweet.

“My twitter account was hacked and I deleted the tweet once I saw it,” he said via his publicist after a request for comment from Deadline.

The shocking tweet comes just two days after Braeden retweeted the following, “I dont understand why ‘i will not accept or excuse racism’ is such a hard concept to grasp. we won’t accept it. we won’t give it an inch.”

Braeden, born in Germany, is best known for his role as self-made business magnate Victor Newman the long-running CBS daytime soap, which has been on the air for 37 years.

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