Carol Baum does dramatic U-turn over THOSE Sydney Sweeney comments: Top ... trends now

Hollywood producer Carol Baum has admitted she regrets publicly slanging Sydney Sweeney after feeling the wrath from the actress' diehard fans. 

Last week, Baum sparked outrage when she took aim at the 26-year-old actress while speaking to New York Times film critic Janet Maslin in front of a live audience. 

DailyMail.com then exclusively revealed that she had accused Sweeney of not being able to act while branding her film Anyone But You 'unwatchable.'

The American star was defended by fans who were quick to accuse Baum of jealousy and said she was an example of 'internal misogyny.'

Now, Baum has confessed she wishes she'd never made the remarks, telling TMZ that 'c***ping on an actor like that in public usually isn't her style.'

Baum went on to reveal that she's been inundated with hate mail in the aftermath. 

Simultaneously, Sweeney  broke her silence on the debacle to lambast Baum for attacking another woman in the industry.

'How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman,' a representative for Sweeney told DailyMail.com.

'If that's what she's learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that's shameful.

'To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms Baum's character.'

Baum was speaking with Maslin before an audience of fans when she made the comments following a screening of her 1988 film Dead Ringers starring Jeremy Irons.

'She's not pretty, she can't act,' said Baum, whose films include Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

'There's an actress who everybody loves now – Sydney Sweeney. I don't get Sydney Sweeney.'