Roseanne Barris continuing to explain herself after her shocking Twitter spree and Tuesday’scancellation of her ABC sitcomRoseanne.
The actress, 65, tweeted on Thursday following aturbulent week in which she and hundreds of others lost their jobsafter she madea racist remark about Valerie Jarrett, formerBarack Obamaadvisor, on Monday.
“I begged Ben Sherwood at ABC 2 let me apologize & make amends,” Barr tweeted, referencing the Disney/ABC Television Group President.
“I begged them not to cancel the show. I told them I was willing to do anything & asked 4 help in making things right,” she continued. “I’d worked doing publicity4 them 4free for weeks, traveling, thru bronchitis. I begged4 ppls jobs.”
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She continued, tweeting, “He said: what were you thinking when you did this? I said: I thought she was white, she looks like my family! He scoffed & said: “what u have done is egregious, and unforgivable.’ I begged 4 my crews jobs. Will I ever recover from this pain? omg.”
She also expressed her regret to actress Jayden Rey, who played Mary Connor, the daughter of DJ (Michael Fishman) and his African American wife Geena (Xosha Roquemore) on the show.
“I think I’ll b better tomorrow. The saddest part of all is 4 Jayden Rey on the show whom I grew2 love so much & am so ashamed of myself that she would ever think I do not love her bc she is African American,” Barr tweeted. “It’s the most gawd awful painful thing. I can’t let myself cave in tho.”
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Barr prompted the cancellation of her show earlier this week when she likened formerJarrettto an “ape” in a since-deleted tweet. She has sinceclaimed that she didn’t know Jarrett is black— and that she wason Ambienwhile tweeting.
However, her ex-husband and formerRoseannewriterTom ArnoldtoldThe Hollywood Reporterin an interview published Wednesday that theactress “wanted” the cancellation to happen.
“It had to happen,” he told publication. “And I am going to tell you the truth,she wanted it to happen, if you saw how her tweets escalated this weekend.”
“If it hadn’t happened yesterday, this season would have been so awful for everyone every day because she would have felt like she was [being] taken advantage [of], just like when I left the show,” Arnold said.
Barr previously apologized to the “wonderful writers (all liberal) and talented actors who lost their jobs on my show due to my stupid tweet,” and she also expressed her regret over two costars in particular:John GoodmanandLaurie Metcalf.
“I just wish ABC had not thrown two of the greatest actors in the world out with me — Laurie and John,” Barr tweeted Wednesday night. “I’m so sick over this — they will never have better character actors on their network.”
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Explaining that he would “rather say nothing than to cause more trouble,” Goodman, 65, assured fans that “everything’s fine” with him, adding that he’s not familiar with Twitter and had no comment on the controversy.
“I don’t know anything about it,” he said. “I don’t read it.”
On Wednesday, a source told PEOPLE that Barr is“in deep darkness and is very remorseful”following the scandal.
“She’s not intentionally hurtful,” said the insider. “They all loved each other on theRoseanneset. It really was one big happy family.”
source: people.com
