During an episode of Roseanne Barr’s podcast that premiered last week, the comedian revealed for the first time that it wasn’t the controversy surrounding a tweet she posted that got her fired from her ABC show, the decision had been made beforehand.
Barr told Human Events’ Jack Posobiec that she asked the head writer "that I hired" when writers were going to start, "and he said, 'oh, the writers are already back Roseanne, and they want you to come in and say hi.'"
"I ran the writer’s room, and I knew then that they had stolen my show," she added.
Barr said later that night was when she sent the tweet which read, "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj," with vj meaning Valerie Jarrett, a former Barack Obama advisor.
"So you’re saying though, that they had basically taken your show even before that?" Posobiec asked.
"Yeah, the very day," Barr said adding that she "got all drunk and went f*ck you."
"Because that’s not the narrative. The narrative is, 'oh because of the tweet,' but you’re saying that the setup — and based on what I had been saying ... they were planning to phase you out even before that?" Posobiec asked.
"Yeah, they had taken my show and I realized that on Labor Day, so I was like, Okay, well, here’s a tweet for you. And I woke up at 1 am, and … I felt like God was waking me up," Barr said.
Recalling sending the tweet, Barr said Jarrett and the photo of a character from Planet of the Apes movie "looked exactly alike, and so I captioned it. I captioned a meme."
Barr said that knowing they were getting rid of her, "I went, f*ck you. You took my show. I’m gonna leave you with a tweet."
Barr’s son and producer, Jake Pentland, stepped in, saying he was happy that Barr was talking about this and "people don’t understand your mindset that night."
"My mother didn't have the team that she has now. So when that night happened, and she sees the president of ABC basically saying, 'Oh, next year, we're not going to be political,' when my mother is famous for being political. That Roseanne show is not just a reboot, it’s — the first nine seasons were always political, first gay kiss, you name it."
"So they basically without talking to her said we're going to take her show that night," Pentland said, later adding, "I know that night you were like ... I'm gonna f*cking bring the whole thing down."
