Debra Messing made headlines early in the E!'s broadcast of the Golden Globes Red Carpet when she used a question from Giuliana Rancic as an opportunity to call the network out over their treatment of former anchor Catt Sadler.

'We want intersectional gender parity, we want equal pay,' Messing said. 'I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn't believing in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts I miss Catt Sadler. So we stand with her.'

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Sadler recently left the network after discovering a huge pay disparity between herself and her male counterparts. She told People she was 'informed and made aware that my male equivalent at the network who I started with the same year and have come up with doing essentially similar jobs, if not the same job, wasn't just making a little bit more than me but was making double my salary and has been for several years.'

After being at the network for 12 years, she described her time at E! as 'Literally a dream job.' Her absence continues to be a black mark on the network, as was evidenced during the E! Red Carpet.

Later in the broadcast, Eva Longoria, standing with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman also voiced her support of Sadler.

Watch the exchange here:

While being interviewed by Ryan Seacrest, Longoria, Kidman, and Witherspoon bantered jovially about the former Desperate Housewives actress joining the second season of Big Little Lies.

But when Seacrest tried to bring the segment to a close, Longoria spoke up about Time's Up, a legal defense fund and movement supported by over 300 women who work in film and television which seeks to address systemic inequality in the workplace. She also spoke up in solidarity with Catt Sadler saying 'Times up. We support gender equity, equal pay; we hope that E! follows the the lead with Catt as well. We stand with you, Catt.'

And Twitter loved it:

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