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Roseanne Barr makes explosive claims about ABC’s insidious tactics before they fired her… and reveals her biggest regret in a defiant new interview

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The blue-collar queen of comedy was back on her primetime throne.

In 2018, Roseanne Barr made her comeback to ABC following a 20-year absence, which brought in impressive viewership numbers and earned her a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump.

Later, she abruptly halted her professional comeback with an astonishing late-night tweet aimed at Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to Barack Obama.

As a fervent admirer, let me share my perspective: I honestly had no inkling about Jarrett’s African-American lineage when I blithely compared her visage to the hypothetical offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.

But the backlash was immediate and the cancel culture mob came baying for blood.

The people in charge of the network cancelled the revival of “Roseanne” and strongly denounced the remark as being extremely offensive, disgusting, and contrary to their principles.

Overnight, the image of America’s once-adored homemaker took a drastic turn into unforgivable racism – this transformation stemmed from her explanation that a controversial joke about autocratic governments was simply misinterpreted.

‘They were waiting for me to slip up,’ she says in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail.

In my perspective as a lifestyle guide, when she refers to “they,” she’s talking about the progressive executives at ABC Network, who, according to Barr (aged 72), were uncomfortable with my populist perspectives and my open endorsement of President Trump.

In his unyielding statement, Barr claims they had been watching him closely from the start, tracking every move he made, and their ultimate goal was to suppress his speech right from the beginning.

‘They hijacked that tweet and made out it said something that it didn’t.’

In an upcoming documentary titled ‘Roseanne Barr is America,’ produced by conservative filmmaker Joel Gilbert, the comedian plans to discuss her past conflict with the cultural movement known as cancel culture.

Indeed, the decline in popularity was quite unexpected – just like abruptly ending a highly successful television show that boasted record-breaking viewership figures among new programs in recent years.

However, Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company (which also owns ABC), firmly stated: ‘The appropriate action in this situation was clear, and it was to do what was right.’

During that period, Barr provided multiple reasons for his remark directed at Jarrett, who was born in Iran but has African-American ancestors.

She attributed her poor decision-making to “tweeting under the influence of Ambien,” indicating that she frequently used social media late at night following the consumption of this sleep aid medication.

However, Barr now asserts that it had no connection to race, but rather stemmed from the fact that Jarrett played a significant role in Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement, a policy move that the comedian, an avid advocate for Israel, strongly criticized.

‘I’m not stupid. I would never refer to a black person as the product of an ape,’ she says.

The ‘Planet of the Apes’ film depicts a scenario where power is seized by a totalitarian regime – this is the subject I was referring to earlier. My tweet aimed to make a humorous comment on politics, not race. Regrettably, some individuals in Hollywood’s liberal community may have jumped to the conclusion that I intended a racial remark without fully considering my intention.

And so today, the main thing Barr regrets is saying sorry.

She states, “The biggest error is offering an apology to the left side, for then they will vigorously oppose you, launching a campaign against you.

‘Once you admit a mistake, they will keep on until you’re dead.’

Barr has been battling against left-wing ideology in some form or other for seven decades.

The eldest of four siblings, she was born to Jewish parents in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1952. 

Following a car accident that caused a brain injury when she was 16 years old, Barr awoke as a transformed individual – turning to alcohol, cigarettes, and truancy from school. For over eight months, her family arranged for her to be institutionalized in a state psychiatric facility.

In reality, I had imagined it as being much more vibrant compared to where I usually live, is what Barr shares with Gilbert, who’s known for his movies like ‘Trump: The Art of the Insult.’

When she was 17 years old, Barr found herself pregnant. Her parents, Helen and Jerome Hershel ‘Jerry’ Barr, decided to send their troubled daughter to a Salvation Army home in Denver. There, she delivered her baby girl and chose to place the newborn up for adoption.

‘Mom didn’t want the neighbors to be ashamed of her,’ Barr explained. 

‘When I look back on that I bust a gut laughing because they were all drunks and perverts.’

Barr stayed in Denver and vowed to return home one day as a famous TV star with her own show.

To begin with, she started performing her comedic acts at biker bars, jazz clubs, and Unitarian churches, opting out of the conventional humor style in favor of a groundbreaking approach she labeled as ‘funny femininity’.

One woman didn’t find the joke amusing, so she subtly changed her seat’s direction during Barr’s performance, as the humor about feminine hygiene didn’t appeal to her.

She wouldn’t let radical feminism ‘penetrate her brain’, Barr said, laughing.

However, she swiftly fulfilled her promise by taking the stage at LA’s Comedy Store and gracing the Tonight Show in 1985. Despite her anxiety, she concluded her set with a punchline and hurried away from the stage rather than staying to chat with host Johnny Carson.

On October 18, 1988, the popular sitcom “Roseanne” first aired, captivating approximately 21.4 million households with its depiction of the Conner family, a relatable working-class American family that mirrored many viewers’ own lives.

As a die-hard fan, I’ve got to spill the beans about Roseanne Barr. Off-camera, she was locking horns with the male writers, claiming they watered down my beloved character’s progressive humor. To make matters worse, they often saved the juiciest jokes for John Goodman, my on-screen spouse Dan.

In a surprised manner, they exclaimed. They predicted that the public would reject it. However, Barr countered by stating that working-class individuals differ significantly from the average person, similar to how they aren’t accustomed to having servants, unlike many others.

It seems like only those with an Ivy League education from Harvard were involved. At that particular moment, they apparently considered both Democratic and Republican audiences as disdainful.

By that point, Barr was among the highest-earning women in entertainment, surpassed only by Oprah Winfrey. However, she was revising her scripts and even hinted at refusing to film certain scenes.

However, she persisted and was proven right when Roseanne surpassed The Cosby Show in 1989, becoming the country’s most beloved sitcom instead.

She mused, “When this series becomes a top-rated hit, these are the individuals I’ll let go. Consequently, I listed everyone’s name,” she states.

Immediately afterward, everyone on the naughty list (for both boys and girls), they got fired as if it was no big deal.

there were plenty of peaks and valleys, with Barr’s sharp wit and candid remarks causing friction among some people.

During a July 1990 Padres-Reds baseball game, her out-of-tune performance of The Star-Spangled Banner was criticized as “unacceptable” by former President George H.W. Bush.

After nine thrilling seasons of “Roseanne,” I found myself basking in the stardom of Roseanne Barr. She graced our screens with her own talk show, lit up Saturday nights as the host of SNL, and embarked on a global comedy tour that had me laughing along with several HBO specials!

In the year 2012, she contested for president with a reputation as a vocal progressive, self-proclaimed as “the only real comedian in the competition,” and promised to give a physical reprimand to Nancy Pelosi, who was the then-Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives.

At the 2016 election, she threw her support behind Donald Trump, the eventual winner.

She expresses that they found it hard to accept that she wasn’t supporting Hillary Clinton. In her words, it was a matter of personal, gender-based politics which left her feeling nauseous.

In 2017, when Barr consented to revive her cherished sitcom, she vowed to confront the expanding political rift directly.

She desired individuals who disliked both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Despite their mutual anger towards one another, they held a deep affection for each other, according to her.

At first, she planned for Goodman to portray the Republican character, with the aim of countering allegations that the show was merely a platform for her political opinions, disguised as a MAGA advocacy outlet.

‘John refused. It fell to me. I looked like a crusader,’ Barr says. 

Off-screen, her caustic tweets were also beginning to unsettle Democrat-backing network bosses.

I, being a devoted fan, can attest that the watchful eyes of the ABC’s LGBTQ+CIA mafia, as Barr calls them in Gilbert’s movie, were always on me. They never missed a single move I made.

The individual was requested to remove a tweet that insinuated David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, made a Nazi salute.

however, a post comparing Valerie Jarrett to a character from Planet of the Apes on May 29, 2018, ultimately led to the downfall of Barr.

Despite the severe impacts of cancellation, Barr has bounced back strongly, finding success in podcasting and developing a new sitcom centered around a hardworking Alabama farmer who clashes with drug cartels – think a blend of “Roseanne” and “The Sopranos”.

She now lives with her son Jake, his wife and their two daughters on a ranch outside Austin, Texas.

‘It’s a very liberal city, that’s why I live outside of it,’ she says, laughing. 

Barr teamed up with Gilbert, she says, to spread the word that there’s life after cancellation.

‘They won’t manage to catch or defeat me. This is due to my intelligence and wit, which surpass their own. The underlying theme in this documentary is that one cannot bring down someone who refuses to yield.’

  • Roseanne Barr is America, directed and produced by Joel Gilbert of Highway 61 Entertainment, will be available on iTunes, Amazon Prime, YouTube Movies and other streaming platforms from June 10

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2025-05-30 18:35

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