Roseanne Barr has called out what she thinks is the sexist double standard of cancel culture and addressed ABC for firing her from her own sitcom reboot “Roseanne” before rebranding it as “The Conners.”“It was a witch-burning,” Barr said of the fallout in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times.
“They denied me the right to apologize.
Oh my God, they just hated me so badly.
I had never known that they hated me like that.
They hate me because I have talent, because I have an opinion.
Even though ‘Roseanne’ became [ABC’s] No.
1 show, they’d rather not have a No.
1 show.”Barr continued, “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.”Barr pointed out that fellow stand-ups Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K.
have since
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