John Goodman defends Roseanne Barr after the racist tweet: "I felt bad for her"

Roseanne's renewal was canceled in 2018 in response to the actor's attacking position.


In a single year, Roseanne returned to our television screens, then left the air. The original series of the SitCom of Nine Seasons lasted from 1988 to 1997. Then, in 2018, the comedy of the working class was relaunched for a tenth season with a large part of the main distribution. But, his second life was short, thanks to a tweet that the star and the creator of the series Roseanne Barr published on Valerie Jarrett , a main advisor to the former president Barack Obama . Although she denied later that the tweet had a racist intention, Roseanne was quickly canceled after only two months and nine episodes in the middle of the counterpoup. The program later returned as Connecs , without bar behind the scenes or in front of the camera.

The actress in disgrace then received the support of her husband's public on the screen, John Goodman . And in a new interview, the actor behind Dan Conner confirmed that this does not regret defending his former co-star. Read the rest to know why.

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Barr's tweet was widely denounced and criticized.

Roseanne Barr at the ABC TCA Winter 2018 Party
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In May 2018, Barr published a tweet on Jarrett , who is black, who said: "The Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes had a baby = VJ".

ABC has taken rapid and canceled measures Roseanne the next day. Then president of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey said in a press release ( via People ), "Roseanne's Twitter declaration is odious, repugnant and incompatible with our values, and we have decided to cancel its program."

Barr apologized for his tweet and explained his reasoning for having published it several times, especially a short time after the start of the counterou. She tweeted: "I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and all the Americans. I'm really sorry to make a bad joke about her policy and her appearance. I should have known me - forgive me - my joke was bad taste."

She said she didn't know Jarrett was black and tweeted: "I thought she was Saudi." She said in another tweet: "Honestly, I thought she was undoubtedly Jewish and Persian, but ... I did it." Barr also said that She was on Ambien When she posted the tweet on a garter.

Goodman defended Barr.

John Goodman and Roseanne Barr at the premiere of
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Three months after the scandal, Goodman approached it - in his interview with an interview with THE Sunday .

"I was surprised by the answer," said the actor in August 2018 ( via Variety ). "And that's probably everything I should say about it ... I know that it is not racist."

Goodman also shared that he had sent an email to Barr thanking her for abandoning the rights to Roseanne so that the show can continue as Connecs without her. However, he did not hear say. "She was crossing hell at the time," he said. "And she still crosses hell." Goodman explained that the cancellation of the show had done him "with a broken heart" and that he felt depressed.

"I am a depressive anyway, so any excuse that I can bend down, I will do it," he said. "But it had a lot to do with that, more than I wanted to admit."

Barr thanked his former co-star for his support.

Roseanne Barr at the Jerusalem Post Conference in 2018
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After Goodman's interview with The Sunday Times ,, Barr expressed his appreciation on Twitter.

"I thank John Goodman for telling the truth about me, despite a certain danger from producers and the network," she published.

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Years later, he does not regret it.

John Goodman at the 2023 Monte Carlo TV Festival
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In a new interview with Variety , Goodman explained that He did not regret his positive comments About Barr.

"At the time, I remember going to a kind of junket where they saw the pilot, then the interviews, and that turned into an attack. And that made me very uncomfortable with them Who attack Roseanne, "he said.

THE Big Lebowski The actor added: "Yeah, I felt bad for her. I just feel terrible in the whole. We had a good time. And I love him. She is just her own person."

When he was asked if he would work with her again, the 71 -year -old said: "I don't know. If she loved her ... I don't know. She is missing. I wish her good luck."

He missed it on the set.

In a 2019 interview on Late at night with Seth Meyers , Goodman spoke of feel the absence of a barr On the set of the sitcom now known as Connecs .

"It was really strange," he said about his longtime co-star. "We used to have a lot of fun in the series, and I really missed this year."

He also raised Barr again abandoning the rights of the show.

"She abandoned a lot so that we can make the show," he said. "She has abandoned all the rights on this subject. So we did not have to call ourselves the" Monnets "or the" Choners "and invent new characters. But, yes, we will always miss."

The actor joked by saying that the character of Roseanne was killed in relation to Dan dying in the final of the original series, then the renewal ignoring this development of the intrigue. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It is quite permanent," he said Roseanne dying of an overdose of opioids at the start of Connecs . "I mean, when I died in the series, they just brought me back." They will not remember! No one looked towards the end. He was sleeping. ""

Barr said she was the only "canceled" star who "lost everything".

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Barr believes that she was canceled when her sitcom was. That said, she continued to interpret the comedy standing and published a new special and documentary comedy earlier this year.

In a February interview with the Los Angeles Times ,, Barr called the Up Given against She a "burning witches" and said: "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."

She also compared herself to other "canceled" celebrities and said: "I am the only person who lost everything, whose work in life has been stolen, stolen by people I thought I was loved it. And there was silence. There was no one in Hollywood really defends me publicly, Except for [Fellow Standup] Mo'nique , who is a courageous, close and expensive friend. ""

Barr also recently blame Roseanne co-star Sara Gilbert For the program to be canceled, because Gilbert publicly expressed his disappointment in Barr's tweet on Jarrett after that.


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