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It’s been seven years since Roseanne Barr was abruptly fired by ABC after posting a tweet that many believed was racist. Now, Barr is finally launching her comeback. Indeed, she’s holding nothing back when it comes to the network that tried to take her down forever.

Barr Drops Bomb About ABC

On Tuesday, Barr’s new documentary Roseanne Barr Is America premiered. In it, she dropped a bomb about ABC. According to Barr, ABC executives asked her to do a guest spot on The Conners, the spinoff of her iconic show Roseanne. This was incredibly insulting to Barr, as this came after ABC cancelled Roseanne and replaced it with The Conners. The network even killed off her beloved character in the process.

“They called me and asked me if I would like to come back as a guest star. You’re coming back as a ghost,” revealed Barr, 72.

In typical Barr fashion, she didn’t mince any words in her profanity-laced response.

“You’re asking me to come back to the show that you [expletive] stole from me and killed my [expletive], and now you want me to show up because you got [expletive] [expletive] ratings and play a ghost?” she reportedly told ABC.

Barr went on to say that she then shut down their request by telling the executives, “I’m gonna be bowling that [expletive] week.”

Whether you like Barr or not, you can’t deny that she is never afraid to tell it like it is!

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Barr Slams ABC For Killing Off Her Character

Not stopping there, Barr then touched on the fact that her Roseanne character was killed off through a drug overdose. This was particularly disturbing to Barr, as Glenn Quinn, who played Becky’s (Alicia Goranson) husband Mark Healy on the original Roseanne, died of an accidental drug overdose in 2002.

“Within three weeks, they revived the show as The Conners, and of course they killed off my character Roseanne in an opioid overdose,” Barr lamented in her documentary. “Which was staggering because Glenn Quinn, who played Becky’s husband, actually died of an opioid overdose.”

Barr was fired by ABC in 2018 after she tweeted a photo of Barack Obama’s former advisor Valerie Jarrett next to the Planet of the Apes actress Helena Bonham Carter.

“Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr wrote alongside it.

This landed Barr in hot water, as Jarrett is of African American descent. However, Barr has long claimed that she was not aware of Jarrett’s heritage.

“The way I feel about it is that God told me to do what I did, and it was a nuclear bomb,” Barr told Variety last week. “The day of my tweet, over 2 million Americans Googled Valerie Jarrett and the Iran deal. And that was my intent. So, whatever.”

“I had my laptop there in bed, as always, and I opened it, and there was [an X post with] a picture of Valerie Jarrett next to Helena Bonham Carter in full makeup as Ari in Planet of the Apes, and they looked like Xerox copies of each other, so I captioned it,” she continued.

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Barr Doubles Down

The Conners ultimately ran for seven seasons, with the final episode airing in April. Though ABC stood by the show, it never achieved the same success as the original Roseanne, or the iconic season’s reboot.

“I felt very pissed off that they stole my rights and killed me,” Barr concluded. “It was so stupid and shortsighted, and I don’t know how they answer to their shareholders for canceling me before even one sponsor pulled out.”

Many feel that Barr was treated unfairly by ABC and Hollywood. We can only hope that this documentary helps to give Barr the comeback that she deserves. In the end, there is nobody out there quite as funny as Roseanne Barr!

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