Roseanne, Interrupted: Here's What Barr's Life Is Like Now

[Music] five months after ABC fired Roseanne Barr for a racist tweet her show returns to air tonight as the Conners without Roseanne there were tens of thousands of people outside waiting to come in the Washington Post put a picture of an empty arena and they put a caption mr. president not a very good crowd as I didn't even land for four and a half hours later now did they fire that reporter No right and look what happened to Rose and if they fire Rose Ann yes well I was at my mom's house in Salt Lake and you know I was very happy and you know my show was number one after 20 years to come back and be number one and not just be number one but 28 million people watched it so I was in a happy place and anyway so I went to bed and I woke up at 211 and tweeted that tweet and then I went back to sleep and when I woke up in the morning it was all over the news and I was like uh-oh and it was characterized as a racist which just made my stomach all to my feet and then the network called and said what possible excuse can you have for something you've done which is unforgivable and some other word that I can't remember and then I said I be happy to go on all all the ABC shows and explain it and apologize but I they said no I wasn't allowed to do that not too long after that my mom was watching TV and saw that it was canceled and that was just the beginning this was the Eleanor Roosevelt freedom of speech award ironically oh that's the Emmy and those are People's Choice Awards we cleaned all my awards and group them for you I want to get the Nobel Peace Prize or a Tony I don't keep in touch with anyone on the show I've been removed from the process of my wife's work it's like the worst thing they could have possibly done to me was to fire me from my own show and let other people write my life story I'm not gonna watch it and I'm not gonna condemn it or say anything bad about it either I'm just moving on from it because I've always been a go-getter and now I'm ah I don't know what I am here's my mess my big mess you know now that I have extra time I really wanted redo all my files and my pictures you know get them all in order so that's what I've been working on so I'm back to what I always did which is try to get my pictures and my files together I need a lot of organization I'm bad at that I've got a lot of time for real life real life stuff like just going for a walk with my mom and having an ice cream cone stuff like that waiting in lines I really been sleeping a lot like probably 17 hours a day started smoking very bad move there's a backstory to everybody who creates something you know the the pain of living life and the things you may have gone through to you know create that joke or that situation or or that family and they knew that I had you know everybody knows that I have struggled with mental health issues and I was struggling at that time as well I was impaired and stupid and mistaken and wrong and for that I apologized my whole life I've been under punches I'm not just my career my life yeah I've been under punches forever I've been called every name in the book for you know since the first time I stepped onstage and before that and you know I don't let words hurt me what other people say I don't let it hurt me cuz it that's about the person who's saying it not about me I'm not what they think I am and I know that I Know Who I am and you know they're wrong you

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Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 17 2018