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"I'm not a racist, I never was & I never will be," she wrote Wednesday. She apologized to those who had lost their jobs because of her action, but also condemned cast members who threw her under the bus, in her words.
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On social media, Barr wrote that what she said was indefensible, then retweeted several statements others made supporting her. President Donald Trump, noting in a tweet that Robert Iger, CEO of ABC's parent Walt Disney Co., had called Jarrett to apologize, wondered why ABC hadn't apologized for "HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC."
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That led the drug maker Sanofi to say on social media that "racism is not a known side effect" of their product. ABC canceled its successful reboot of "Roseanne" on Tuesday following the star's racist tweet likening former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a "Planet of the Apes" actor.īarr continued tweeting on Wednesday, at one point saying the offending tweet was composed at 2 a.m. Given Barr's past incidents of bad behavior and questionable social media posts, ABC faced questions Wednesday about why it went back into business with her before it all blew apart. NEW YORK - An old picture of Roseanne Barr dressed as Adolf Hitler, wearing a swastika and pulling burnt cookies from an oven, splashed on the front of the New York Daily News Wednesday like a neon sign asking ABC executives: What were you thinking?