Roseanne Barr Says ‘God Advised Me’ to Ship Profession-Derailing Tweet
It’s been seven years since Roseanne Barr despatched what many perceived to be a racist tweet that led to the cancellation of her hit present Roseanne — and the previous sitcom star has no regrets.
“The way in which I really feel about it’s that God advised me to do what I did, and it was a nuclear bomb,” Barr, 72, advised Selection in an interview printed on Friday, June 6. “The day of my tweet, over 2 million Individuals Googled Valerie Jarrett and the Iran deal. And that was my intent. So, no matter.”
In 2018, Barr despatched a racially charged tweet, captioning an image of Jarrett subsequent to Helena Bonham Carter: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a child=vj.” Barr claims she had no concept that Jarrett is Black, as an alternative telling the outlet that she believes she despatched “the proper caption.”
“I used to be already having nightmares about by no means going again to that present [Roseanne], and God woke me up,” Barr stated of the evening she despatched the tweet, including that she had been each ingesting and on Ambien on the time. “I had my laptop computer there in mattress, as at all times, and I opened it, and there was [an X post with] an image of Valerie Jarrett subsequent to Helena Bonham Carter in full make-up as Ari in Planet of the Apes, and so they seemed like Xerox copies of one another, so I captioned it.”
Roseanne Barr isn’t any stranger to controversy. Lengthy earlier than ABC selected to cancel the reboot of Roseanne in 2018, the actress made headlines for quite a lot of causes together with a controversial Nationwide Anthem efficiency and a run for president. Years after Barr’s Roseanne character was killed off The Conners, Us Weekly discovered unique particulars about […]
(Jarrett was born in Iran and performed a major function within the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as a part of former President Barack Obama’s administration.)
Roseanne Barr attends the Mr. Birchum Collection Premiere on Might 07, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Araya Doheny/Getty Pictures for DailyWire+
In response to Barr’s tweet, ABC virtually instantly canceled the Roseanne revival following a profitable first season and after initially renewing it for season 2. Channing Dungey, the at-the-time ABC Leisure president, referred to as Barr’s tweet “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,” whereas Disney CEO Bob Iger reportedly signed off on Barr’s inevitable firing.
Barr denies that her tweet was racist, nevertheless, telling Selection that the declare itself is an indication of different folks’s racism.
“They have been so racist that they thought my tweet stated Black folks appear like monkeys when it was about ‘Planet of the Apes,’ which is a film about fascism,” she advised the outlet. “Rod Serling himself stated it’s concerning the Jews in Germany. It’s not a film about Black folks, Bob.”
Regardless of Roseanne Barr‘s absence from The Conners, her character was nonetheless entrance and middle on the ultimate season. Roseanne initially aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997. After being briefly revived in 2018 — and after Barr’s eventual exit from the sequence amid controversial social media posts — the story remodeled into The Conners. The […]
After initially canceling the present, ABC determined to maneuver ahead with the Roseanne revival – however with out its star. As an alternative, the sequence killed off the eponymous character through an opioid overdose and adjusted the present’s title to The Conners, which debuted in 2018.
“I felt very pissed off that they stole my rights and killed me,” Barr advised Selection of the revival and her former character’s storyline. “It was so silly and shortsighted, and I don’t understand how they reply to their shareholders for canceling me earlier than even one sponsor pulled out.”