WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Barbara Crampton (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, GUIDING LIGHT)

Barbara Crampton, best known to soap fans for her run as Leanna Love on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, was recently interviewed by Crave Online. Crampton has a huge horror following and stars in the new film, You're Next.

Crampton, who also played Mindy Lewis on GUIDING LIGHT (miscast alert!) and Trista Evans on DAYS OF OUR LIVES among other soap roles, feels watching a daily soap opera is too much of a commitment these days. Said Crampton: "You can’t do it. There’s too much else going on. I’m glad to say that I was a part of it when they were big. They were a big part of my life."

She feels soaps are now being reinvented thanks to reality shows.

"JERSEY SHORE is kind of like a soap opera now. That’s the new version of the soap opera, the reality soap opera, and THE KARDASHIANS. I don’t watch either one of those. They’re just not my thing but millions of people watch them so I think the soap opera is just being reinvented."

Crampton does remember her time at THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS fondly.

"That’s one of my favorite roles and I know a lot of horror people don’t know me from that genre," she said. "It was definitely a favorite part of mine. When I got that part, it was only supposed to be for three months. I was supposed to be a crazy psychotic woman who comes in to kill Eileen Davidson’s character, Ashley Abbott. So I did a few scenes and then they said after a few days, 'We really like this character so we’re going to continue it on for about another year. Would you like to do it?'"

Read the complete interview here.

Do you miss Crampton on daytime?