‘The Young and the Restless’: 5 Times Eric Braeden’s Victor Newman Beat the Odds

Eric Braeden is best known to TV viewers as the ruthless Victor Newman on Young and the Restless. “Victor” is an appropriate name because the mustached mogul always emerges victorious — one way or the other! Braeden, too, is determined to beat the odds. A cancer survivor, the actor recently lost his Los Angeles home in the Pacific Palisades fires.

“I had done, that day, 42 pages of dialogue at CBS, and drove home,” Braeden said of the day. “Obviously, I was aware of the fires burning in the Palisades but not to the extent.” Originally, he was told that the winds were blowing in the opposite direction and his home shouldn’t be impacted. That changed quickly, and when the fires closed in, Braeden and his wife, along with others in their neighborhood, left in a panic. They packed everything they could —  “important papers … you don’t know what to grab first” — and safely evacuated.