Roseanne Barr remains a pioneering comedian, actor, writer, and producer whose career has lasted for decades. Achieving fame in the ’80s for the ABC sitcom Roseanne, which she co-created and starred in, she quickly rose to become one of the central figures in American comedy, with an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress to her credit.
Despite her success, the 72-year-old’s career was marred by controversies, one of which was a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former assistant to President Barack Obama, which led to the cancellation of the Roseanne reboot in 2018. In a new development, Barr recently revealed that she was offered a role in The Conners, which became the reimagined version of her original show, Roseanne.
Roseanne Barr says she declined the offer to make a guest appearance in ‘The Conners’
They tried to bring her back as a ghost. It’s still a rip off of Topper.
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In her new documentary, Roseanne Barr is America, the comedian opened up that the producers of the subsequent spinoff, The Conners, reached out to her with an invitation to make a guest appearance as a ghost. Barr noted that she found it both insulting and hypocritical to be asked to return to a show that had effectively ousted her and knocked off her character, despite being the brain behind it, merely because the show struggled with ratings.
The Roseanne’s Nuts star explained that she dismissed the offer as bluntly as she could, claiming that she would be busy bowling during the proposed filming period.
Roseanne Barr says the method used to kill off her character was highly insensitive
Also, in the new documentary, Barr delved into the fallout from her controversial 2018 racist tweet, which led to the abrupt cancellation of her Roseanne revival. The 72-year-old claimed that the creators of The Conners made the deliberate decision to kill off her iconic character, linking her death to an accidental opioid overdose.
Barr explained that the decision of the producers was highly insensitive, especially given the fact that Glenn Quinn, the actor who portrayed the character of Mark Healy, Becky’s husband in the original series, had tragically died from a real-life opioid overdose years earlier.