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'D-Bag' Eric Braeden Responds to Neil Patrick Harris

And he didn't do it on Twitter. "His choice of words bothered me," The Young and The Restless star said to EW.com about Neil Patrick Harris' Twitter slur. "It seems to me like a young whippersnapper, having seen himself on a few covers, who's received a few awards, is now suddenly suffering from the first signs of hubris. I've been in the business for 50 years. I've seen people come and go and I'm still here." For his part, Braeden says he only dropped out of How I Met Your Mother because of his busy schedule following hip surgery. "Everyone knows that I'm exhausted. I was not about to appear on a show for two lines." There are no small parts... [EW]