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Roseanne Barr is getting candid astir her eponymous character's fate.
The comedian didn't clasp backmost successful sharing her effect to her Roseanne quality being killed disconnected successful the sitcom's 2018 spinoff The Conners.
"When they killed my quality off, that was a connection to me, knowing that I'm mentally sick oregon person intelligence wellness issues, that they did privation maine to perpetrate suicide," Barr told the Los Angeles Times successful an interrogation published Feb. 9. "They killed my character, and my character. And each of that was to accidental convey you for bringing 28 cardinal viewers, which they ne'er had earlier and volition ne'er spot again. Because they tin buss my ass."
The 70-year-old was fired from the Roseanne revival—which re-branded arsenic The Conners successful the aftermath of Barr's departure—after she posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a erstwhile advisor to Barack Obama. In the bid premiere of The Conners successful 2018, it was revealed that the quality Roseanne had died of an opioid overdose.
As for her erstwhile formed mates—including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert—Barr has struggled to reckon with however they handled her firing.
"I can't cognize what they deliberation oregon feel," she stated. "I don't cognize wherefore they did what they did. I'm not similar them. I realized that. I can't judge what they did, with each the symptom that I went done to bring the amusement back. And it didn't faze them to execution my character, either."
Barr originated the relation of Roseanne Conner successful October 1988 connected Roseanne. The ABC sitcom ran for 9 seasons until 1997 earlier being revived for a 10th play successful 2018. The Conners, meanwhile, is presently successful the midst of its 5th play connected the network.
Still, Barr contends she isn't holding grudges against her erstwhile onscreen family.
"I forgive everybody," she said. "I started reasoning that God took maine retired of determination to prevention me. And erstwhile I started reasoning that way, I was, like, a batch amended off."
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The Conners airs Wednesdays astatine 8 p.m. connected ABC.
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