Roseanne says she is the only canceled person "who has lost everything"
The actor opened on life after Roseanne in a new interview.
In March 2018, Roseanne I came back for his 10th season after 21 years of the end. It turned out to be his last. Two months later, the series was canceled, once again, after the creator of the series and the series Roseanne Barr published a tweet on Valerie Jarrett , a main advisor to Barack Obama , which was widely considered racist. (Barr denied any racist intention.) Rather than disappearing entirely, Roseanne turned into Connecs , with the character of Barr killed off screen. Now the besieged actor is back in the eyes of the public with a new documentary and a special standup. According to Barr, she is the only person canceled "who has lost everything".
The actor opened on the consequences of cancellation A new interview with the Los Angeles Times . Read the rest to discover what she had to say.
Read this then: 6 "canceled" celebrities that have never been heard .
Roseanne was canceled after Barr's tweet.
In May 2018, Barr tweeted: "Muslim frostures and the planet of the monkeys had a baby = VJ" in reference to Jarrett, which is black. The next day, ABC canceled Roseanne , which had been created two months earlier and had already been renewed for an 11th season. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Channing Dungey Then the president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement ( via People ), "Roseanne's Twitter declaration is odious, repugnant and incompatible with our values, and we decided to cancel her program."
The show continued as Connecs And the character of Barr was killed.
Barr said the tweet was not racist.
Barr gave several defenses for his tweet. The day after the tweet, She tweeted in the middle of the off , "I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and all the Americans. I am really sorry to make a bad joke about his politics and his eyes. I should have known me. Forgive me - my joke was bad. ""
Shortly after, she said what she said was "unforgivable" and said she was on Ambien When she posted the tweet.
She also said that she I didn't know Jarrett was black . "I thought she was Saudi," she wrote in a tweet. "Honestly, I thought she was Jewish and personal of me for sure, but ... I did it," I read another. A third party said, "Yes, I'm wrong, even if she was white."
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She says she "lost everything".
In the new interview with the Los Angeles Times , Barr called what happened to him a "burning witches". The 70-year-old actor explained: "I had the impression that the devil himself came against me to try to tear me away, to punish me for having believed in God."
Barr continued to compare himself to other actors, who have faced ups, including Dave Chappelle And Louis C.K. Regarding C.K., she admitted: "Well, Louis C.K. lost everything, but He committed a real [offense] . ""
She added: "I am the only person who lost everything, whose work of life was stolen, stolen by people I thought I loved myself. And there was silence. There was person in Hollywood who really defends me publicly, with the exception of Mo'nique , who is a courageous, close and expensive friend. ""
Barr is still working.
Barr was interviewed before his new special standup comedy, Roseanne Barr: Cancel this! , which was presented on Fox Nation on February 13. A documentary on her career, Who is Roseanne Barr? , also made his debut on the streaming service the same day.
In the years that followed her apparent cancellation, she interpreted her Standup routine in various comedy clubs. "I am so happy that it is the most offensive of my stand-up that I have ever had the bullets," she said Los Angeles Times .
Special Standup has already been called for Offensive jokes on transgender people . THE Los Angeles Times Note that Barr also refers to the "Baby Blood-Brink Democrat Committee".
"I already want to do another special," added Barr. "I want to go further in depth than the first. Once I started writing comedy again, I couldn't stop it. I wrote about four hours of equipment. Now I have So much material that it is difficult to cut yourself. I want to talk about what it is to work in the creative arts in Hollywood, how crazy it is. "
