I didn't get the sense from any comments by the DS actors that Alexandra thought working on DS was "beneath" her.
Well, Lara Parker certainly seemed to think so - and the quote Midnite shared with us said as much in as many words:
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She didn't need to do anything. She was a socialite basically, that was her posture. She had come from a lot of money. The show was beneath her." Though, of course, that was simply LP's perception of Alexandra's feeling, which may have shared little to absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to how Alexandra herself actually felt. That can be the trouble with stating a perception - it can often be colored by the perceivee's own bias.
because i love the show and am also so fond of alexandra's portrayal of vicki it makes me sad to know that she "hated" being on the show.
And that feeling of sadness is why I've often said that it was probably a blessing that Alexandra was finally allowed to leave. As I've said, by the time she left Vicki had become a mere shadow (pun fully intended) of her former self and was basically a doormat for every villain to torment. Vicki had lost nearly all the spark that had made her so interesting during DS' first year. And let's face it, taking the dissatisfaction with how one's role had degraded and combining it with having to work so closely alongside RD nearly every day could have been enough to make almost any actor want to jump out of their skin.
Almost any remarks Alexandra might have made at the time of her departure would have been perfectly understandable.
The one thing that I do find ironic is that once Betsy Durkin took over Vicki, Vicki suddenly displayed a great deal of the backbone that Vicki had once had and Alexandra had not been given to play for the longest time...