Roseanne Barr said there were people who were concerned for her safety following the 2018 cancellation of her sitcom reboot, Roseanne.
In 2018, Barr was criticized as being a racist after she mocked former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, tweeting, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” ABC condemned Barr’s tweet and canceled her show, saying her comment was “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
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“They just tried to kill me, and I felt like they killed my character,” Barr told The Megyn Kelly Show. ”I thought they wanted me to kill myself, and all my friends did, too. They said, ‘They’re trying to push you to suicide.’”
Barr recounted how sitcom co-star Sara Gilbert, who played Barr’s daughter Darlene on the show, repeatedly spoke out against her.
“She repeatedly twisted it,” Barr said, referencing host Megyn Kelly’s idea that Gilbert “stuck the knife in.” “It was her tweet that canceled the show. She wrote, ‘It’s sad one cast member’ — that’s what she called me after she begged me to come back saying: ‘I’ve got your back this time. I won’t let anyone at you. I won’t let anyone hurt you. I’m going to protect you. You have mental health problems, but I’m going to be there.’”
“This is the crap that she told me, and then she tweeted,” Barr continued. “I was floored. I was just floored.”
Kelly suggested that cancel culture reveals one’s true friends, and Barr agreed.
“I think I’m better off,” Barr said.
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Since then, Barr has vowed to help protect free speech and save comedy from cancel culture. She appeared in her comedy special Cancel This!, which aired on Fox Nation in February.
“I think comedy is a big part of the target because comedy’s so powerful,” Barr told Gutfeld! while promoting the comedy special. “The fact that we can laugh at them really upsets them, and they want to put an end to that. They don’t want us to laugh at them because it’s so powerful to be able to laugh at them, to scorn, and I guess they’re just so cowardly they can’t just do it.”
