Correction, July 19: In a Yahoo News interview with Abigail Disney, published July 9, we reported that she had visited Disneyland to gather information about worker conditions. She subsequently told another news outlet and later confirmed to Yahoo News that in fact she had not visited the theme park but met with Disney workers at an offsite union office in Anaheim, Calif. This information was crucial context, and we regret the error. We have updated the story, video and headlines on all platforms to reflect this correction.

As an heiress to the Disney fortune, anything Abigail Disney says about the brand beloved by millions worldwide garners attention.

And she’s calling out Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger for his nearly $66 million yearly salary, saying he isn’t doing enough to rectify the huge gap between his own earnings and that of other Disney workers.

“Bob needs to understand he's an employee, just the same as the people scrubbing gum off the sidewalk are employees,” Disney said during an interview with the Yahoo News show Through Her Eyes.

“And they're entitled to all the same dignity and human rights that he is.”

Iger’s pay check last year was more than 1000 times what the median Disney employee made in 2018, according to Equilar.

View photos Abigail Disney called out Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger for his annual $66 million salary. Source: File/Getty Images More

To understand the grievances of Walt Disney Co. employees, Abigail Disney said she went to Anaheim, Calif., after receiving a Facebook message from a distressed worker.

She said what she discovered was a façade that was about to crack from the pressure of making ends meet.

“Every single one of these people I talked to were saying: ‘I don't know how I can maintain this face of joy and warmth when I have to go home and forage for food in other people's garbage’,” she recalled, adding that this was not the work environment her grandfather Roy O. Disney sought out to create.

View photos Disney CEO Bob Iger has come under attack from the Disney heiress due to his high salary. Source: File/Getty Images More

“I was so livid when I came out of there because, you know, my grandfather taught me to revere these people that take your tickets, that pour your soda,” she continued.

“Those people are much of the recipe for success.”

After this article was published, a spokesperson for the Walt Disney Co. reached out to say the company generally avoids responding to such "baseless" accusations, "but this one is particularly egregious, and we won’t let this stand."

The spokesperson continued: "We strongly disagree with this characterisation of our employees and their experience at Disney. This widely reported stunt is a gross and unfair exaggeration of the facts that is not only a misrepresentation but also an insult to the thousands of employees who are part of the Disney community. We continually strive to enhance the employment experience of our more than 200,000 employees through a variety of benefits and programs that provide them opportunity, mobility and well-being."

Disney’s full statement can be found here.

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Abigail Disney says her efforts are part of preserving a work culture of respect that originated with her grandfather and that she says has gradually declined at the Walt Disney Co.

“When my grandfather worked there, he hired people there to have a job for life,” she said.

Pay complaints

The company has also been accused of sexist pay practices. Earlier this month, four new women joined a major pay-gap case against it, according to the Guardian.

They are part of a larger class-action lawsuit, filed in April, alleging the company systematically underpays its female employees. Disney denied the allegations.