United Kingdom, April 18 -- Kelly Ripa was "terrified" of being fired from 'All My Children'.

The 54-year-old star made her name when she was cast as Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera in the early 1990s and while she enjoyed the security of the regular work, she was always conscious of being written out at a moment's notice.

Speaking on 'Live with Kelly and Mark', she said: "A steady gig has always appealed to me. I liked the weekly guarantee of the soap. Most people, they get on a soap and their goal is to get right off a soap, and I just settled right in there. I liked the steadiness of it. It just gave me a layout of my life over the next year.

"But anything can happen in a soap. Every 13 weeks you can be fired. It was te...