Roseanne Barr ‘Can’t Bear’ to Watch ‘The Conners’ After Exit: ‘Didn’t Faze Them to Murder My Character’

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After The Conners killed off Roseanne Barr’s eponymous character in 2018, the comedian is not interested in watching the sitcom.“I just can’t bear it, so I don’t,” Barr, 70, told The Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Thursday, February 9. “When they killed my character off, that was a message to me, knowing that I’m mentally ill or have mental health issues, that they did want me to commit suicide.”She continued: “They killed my character … And all of that was to say thank you for bringing 28 million viewers, which they never had before and will never see again.

Because they can kiss my a—.”Barr — who starred as the titular character on Roseanne, which aired between 1988 and 1997 — revived the popular sitcom in 2018, reuniting with her former costars including John Goodman and Sara Gilbert.

Roseanne was canceled that May after Barr’s allegedly racist Twitter remark received widespread backlash. The Utah native, who deleted her initial comment, has since apologized for making a “bad joke” about White House aide Valerie Jarrett’s appearance and politics.

One month later, ABC announced that the reboot would continue — under a new name — without Barr. The Conners, which premiered that October, returned with the Conner family mourning the death of matriarch Roseanne after a fatal overdose.“While we wish the very best for the cast and production crew of The Conners, all of whom are deeply dedicated to their craft and were Roseanne’s cherished colleagues, we regret that ABC chose to cancel Roseanne by killing off the Roseanne Conner’s character,” Barr and her rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, told Us Weekly in a statement after the premiere. “That it was done through an opioid overdose lent an unnecessary grim and morbid