Unapologetic Roseanne Barr returns, blasts critics: ‘I’m a g–damn American’

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and killed her off — her eponymous sitcom following controversial remarks way back in 2018.Barr’s new Reelz documentary — “Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood” — gets raw about her ousting from the revival of her ’90s sitcom “Roseanne,” which is now known as “The Conners.” The outspoken star alleged that ABC always had issues with her contentious (the network president labeled them “repugnant”) tweets and comments — and engaged in “intellectual witch-burning” to silence her.In 2018, ABC cancelled the original “Roseanne” reboot after Barr’s racist tweet comparing former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the offspring of the “Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”‘I’m a comic.

I’m a bad girl … I’m going to say f— it and f— you until I take my last breath.’“Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,’ I got a call for,” Barr claimed in regards to the network’s management methods.The doc also dives deep into the moment Barr tweeted about a conspiracy theory about a Parkland school shooting survivor giving a Nazi salute at a rally for harder gun control.She would up deleting the tweet. “I removed it every time they called,” she said. “And they called frequently.”“Everyone was begging me to give up my Twitter.

Everyone,” she also noted. “My kids were trying to lock me out, but I wouldn’t because it’s like I just couldn’t.”But Barr refused to concede and never left the social media app. “I’m a g–damn American and I’m not going to do it,” the mother of five stated. “I’m a comic.

I’m a bad girl. I’m too rock and roll. I’m going to say f— it and f— you until I take my last breath.”“I shoulda not did it, but by God, I was really p—-d that day,” Barr added. “And I did something I wouldn’t do if I hadn’t been on.