Roseanne Barr He claims that he was asked to appear The conners After his character was killed in the franchise, but he finally rejected the offer.
“They called me and asked if I would like to return as a guest star,” Barr, 72, alleged in his new documentary, Roseanne Barr is Americaalong People. “Return as a ghost.”
Barr said he was in disbelief that ABC would ask him to return to the franchise after being fired years earlier. “Do you ask me to return to the program you stole me and you killed my ass, and now do you want me to appear because you have a qualification shit and play a ghost?” He recalled thinking, stating that his response was: “I’m going to dump that week of the week.”
Barr he starred in Roseanne, which co -created, from 1988 to 1997. The Sitcom ABC followed the starter character and his working family in the fictional city of Lanford, Illinois. John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert He also starred.
The cast returned to the tenth season in 2018, decades after the end of the series was published for the first time, but it was finally canceled that year as a result of Barr. controversial social media Publications.
“Roseanne’s Twitter Declaration is abominant, disgusting and inconsistent with our values,” President ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey He said in a statement after Barri issued an apology. ABC later eliminated all the references to the revival series at his press place, and Viacom removed all the reappears from the entire career of Sitcom from all his channels.

John Goodman, Roseanne Barr
Daniel Watson / © CARSEY-WERNER / Paramount Television / ABC / Courtesy Everett CollectionRoseanne was revived as The conners, that worked for seven seasons from 2018 to 2025. Goodman, Metcalf and Gilbert re -played their respective roles, and the character of Barr. was murdered out of screen After an accidental overdose of opioids. In the absence, the show revealed that Roseanne had been fighting with addiction that was aggravated by pain in the knee and lack of insurance coverage.
“I just can’t stand Los Angeles Times In February 2023 of spinoff. “When they killed my character, this was a message to me, knowing that I am mentally ill or I have mental health problems, they wanted me to commit suicide.”
She continued: “They killed my character … And all this was to thank you for taking 28 million viewers, who never had and will never see again. Because they can kiss -my ass.”
Despite his anger on the net, Barr expressed his support for Goodman, who portrayed her husband, Dan, and Metcalf, who played Sister Laurie.
“I just want ABC to have launched two of the world’s largest actors with me – Laurie and John,” he wrote through X in 2018. “I’m so sick because of that, they will never have actors of better characters on their network.”
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