Roseanne Barr is unleashing on ABC.
The comedian, 72, called out the Disney-owned network for bringing back “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Tuesday night after the show was briefly suspended.
Barr compared Kimmel’s situation to when ABC canceled her “Roseanne” reboot in 2018 because of her racist tweets about former President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett.
“I got my whole life ruined, no forgiveness and all of my work stolen and called a racist for time and eternity, for racially misgendering someone,” Barr told NewsNation Tuesday.
“It just shows how they think. It’s a double standard,” Barr added.
The Emmy winner also predicted how she thought Kimmel’s first show back would go.
“I think he’ll cheer himself on and his fans, all what is it, 2,000 of them. They’ll feel heartened and, you know, like they won another battle against Trump and the people of the United States,” Barr stated. “So it’ll be a big celebration. ‘Oh, he’s back,’ and he’ll double down.”
ABC revived Barr’s iconic sitcom in 2018, but the star was abruptly fired in May of that year for saying that Jarrett, 68, looked like the offspring of the “Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
The network’s bosses killed the show despite its high ratings, blasting Barr’s comment as “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.” ABC later created the spinoff “The Conners,” featuring several of Barr’s former co-stars and killing off her character.
Barr apologized for the tweet at the time and claimed she thought Jarrett was white.
In her NewsNation interview, Barr said her legacy was “erased” after the sitcom was canceled.
“I’ve been erased from history, from the history of feminism, which that cracks me up,” she said. “I’m never mentioned in anything about women who are pioneers in media. I’m never mentioned in anything anymore.”
Last week, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was taken off the air by ABC because of the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
After widespread backlash, Disney reinstated “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and the host returned to the air Tuesday night, where he addressed his controversial comments about Kirk.
“You understand that it was never my intention to make light of a murder of a young man. I don’t think there’s anything funny about it,” he said in his opening remarks, which were interrupted several times by standing ovations from the audience.
“I understand that to some, that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both, and for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset,” Kimmel added.
The comedian also included repeated jabs against President Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in his show, though he stopped short of outright criticizing ABC and Disney.
