Brenda Song accuses Disney of 'underpaying and overworking' child stars on her hit show claiming she passed out on set amid brutal conditions

Brenda Song has recalled the time she fainted while filming a hot tub scene for The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

The 38-year-old former child star appeared on the Disney Channel show from March 2005 to September 2008, starring alongside Cole and Dylan Sprouse, who played the titular characters.

'I just remember breathing heavy and my chest felt really hot. I just went, "Am I having a panic attack?" Song recalled while visiting Dylan's Wildmen podcast on Tuesday.

'And then all of a sudden I remember [seeing] stars and [then I was] gone,' she added.

Dylan said everyone else inside the tub started to complain about the severe heat, but it wasn't until Song fainted that the accidental 250-degree temperature was addressed.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Song said she thought the cast was 'underpaid and overworked.' 

Dylan recounted about Song fainting: 'If you didn’t pass out, you wouldn’t have said anything. At the same time, everybody on the set, once you passed out, went, "Oh s**t, this is really real.' 

'People can have third-degree burns on them, but unless Brenda passed out, it wasn’t real,' he teased, noting her high tolerance for discomfort.

Song said she 'had a lovely time' shooting the hit show, but corroborated Dylan's previous revelation that the actors do not receive residuals.

'I look back on it, I was like, "Oh my God, we did actually pay them to work. We basically did," she said.

And she said that everyone who worked on the series should be 'set' for life in terms of money.

Sprouse added that if the show had been on a different network, 'we would have seven generations of children that would not have to worry about what they did [for money].'

'We would have seven homes,' Song piled on before acknowledging that the show was her breakthrough.

'Disney did give us a platform to be sitting here right now,' she recognized. 'So it’s very hard to complain about certain things.'

Song was cast as the hotel heiress London Tipton and reprised the role for the spinoff The Suite Life on Deck, which ran from 2008 to 2011. 

These days she balances her career with raising two boys with fiancé Macaulay Culkin, 46. 

Earlier this month, speaking with his former Suite Life costar Phill Lewis on Wildmen, Dylan said he has received only a single paycheck for residuals on the series.

The check was for just one episode – a 2006 crossover in which he and his twin brother Cole joined forces with fellow Disney Channel hit Hannah Montana, which starred Miley Cyrus.

The actor revealed to Lewis, who played hotel manager Marion Moseby, that the meager check wasn't even enough to buy a cup of coffee. 

In fact, the check may have cost more to print than it was worth, as he only received an insulting five cents from the Suite Life-Hannah Montana crossover. 

'In a time where residuals would have been great, [there was] not a single paycheck for being arguably one of the most popular shows,' he said bitterly.