Roseanne Barr Trashes ABC, Former Co-Star Sara Gilbert in Unhinged Megyn Kelly Interview: “They Wanted Me to Kill Myself”

Roseanne Barr was fired from the Roseanne reboot on ABC back in 2018, and in an interview on The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM, she says that her former co-star Sara Gilbert is to blame for much of the cancel culture backlash against her.

For context, in 2018, Barr was fired for a racist, anti-Muslim tweet in which she compared former President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape and suggested that she was a part of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the aftermath of that tweet, Gilbert, who played Barr’s daughter Darlene on the show, called the tweet “abhorrent” and was vocal about how she condemned the remarks.

Roseanne was canceled, but was spun off into The Conners, now in its sixth season, and which Gilbert is the star of.

While speaking to Kelly, Barr said that Gilbert used her platform as a co-host of The Talk to further disparage Barr.

“It wasn’t enough that she stabbed me in the back and did what she did to me there, but then she would go on her talk show every day and talk about how shocked she was at my racism on top of it,” Barr says, which led her to threaten Gilbert. “I called her up and I said, just like this,” at which point she lowered her voice in a deeper tone, “‘You better shut your blankin’ mouth about me. I’m telling you, you better shut your effing mouth.’ And she did.”

The conversation was wild enough up until that point, but then Barr repeated the claims that she thought ABC was hoping she would kill herself after she was fired from the show, which is something she has stated to the press before, but in this case, she said that two of her comedian friends, Norm MacDonald and Bob Einstein, suggested as much to her.

“[ABC] knew I had mental health issues. I thought they wanted me to kill myself and all my friends did too,” she said, adding, “Norm MacDonald, who was a good friend, died, he said ‘I think they’re trying to push you to suicide.’ And Bob Einstein, he also died during that time, he was a very good friend, he called me and said, ‘This is just unprecedented. It’s evil what they’re doing to you.’ It really was.”

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