Roseanne Barr Wants Sympathy After Being Fired from Her Show
by EG
Roseanne Barr wants you to know that she wasn't being racist when she compared Valerie Jarrett to an ape, she was simply insulting Jarrett's appearance. At any rate, Barr seems baffled at the revelation that people might not like you if you're a social-media troll. Meanwhile, the reboot of her ABC series, Roseanne, is going on without her under a new name. Read on for the details about the latest Roseanne drama.
Via People.
Roseanne Barr is opening up about the racist tweet that caused ABC to cancel the Roseanne reboot.
In an interview on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s podcast, Barr remarked, “It’s really hard to say this, but I didn’t mean what they think I meant.”
“I don’t want to run off and blather on with excuses, but I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there’s no excuse for that ignorance,” she continued.
Becoming tearful, she added, “I definitely feel remorse.”
“I’m a lot of things, I’m a loud mouth and all that stuff, but I’m not stupid, for God’s sake,” Barr tearfully told Boteach. “I never would have wittingly called any black person…a monkey.”
Although the interview was made public on Sunday, The Blast reported it was recorded just two days after the sitcom’s cancellation. It has since been announced ABC has greenlit a spinoff, with which Barr will not be involved.
On May 29, ABC canceled Roseanne after Barr, who starred as wife and mother Roseanne Conner, shared (and then deleted) a tweet comparing former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, who is black, to an ape.
Barr later tweeted that she “mistakenly thought [Jarrett] was white.”
In a statement announcing the show’s cancellation, president of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey wrote, “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”
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