Does Roseanne Stand a Chance of Ever Being on Tv Again

Two questions into Roseanne Barr's packed appearance at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in tardily January, it happens: A reporter goes right for the Valerie Jarrett.

Last May, Barr tweeted 11 words that managed to reference the Obama adviser, the science-fiction motion picture "Planet of the Apes" and the Muslim Brotherhood. Within hours, ABC killed its most pop prove of 2018. And Barr went from honey sitcom star to spreader of hate.

"Y'all are a sorry excuse for a human existence," actress Rita Moreno tweeted at the time.

"Roseanne fabricated a choice. A racist one," added "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes.

"There is not any room in our society for racism or bigotry," tweeted ceremonious rights icon and congressman John Lewis.

Now, from the third row of the auditorium, Sagi Bin Nun of the news website Walla takes his own shot.

"Israel is the place where people ask to exist forgiven past God," he says. "Would you lot like to take this opportunity to apologize for your racist tweet?"

Boos rain downwards on Bin Nun, and some guy yells, "You're a jerk." For two days, Barr has been telling anybody in Israel with a camera that she'south a "Jewy Jew," a warrior for their homeland and disgusted with "repulsive" Natalie Portman and other then-chosen Hollywood hypocrites. During her two-week circuit to the Holy Land, she volition pray at the Western Wall, tour the West Depository financial institution, huddle with authorities officials, serve on a console with spoon-angle illusionist Uri Geller and, when she'due south worn out, crash back at her suite at the Inbal Hotel.

But right now, she can't let Bin Nun go.

"You're a mean person who simply wants to insult people for no reason whatever," Barr says in forepart of anybody. "I pray to God to enhance the sparks in you and so that you'll go a decent person."

What to brand of this. Information technology'due south uncomfortable and entertaining and weird, peculiarly with Barr sitting between an Orthodox rabbi and the deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset. Terminal March, Barr was on the cusp of one of the great comebacks in tv history. Twenty years after wrapping her groundbreaking sitcom "Roseanne," Barr, 66, had signed to return with the unabridged cast. The reboot premiere reached more than than 27 meg viewers. Three days later, ABC renewed the revived "Roseanne" for another flavor.

In that location was a problem, though: Barr had Twitter, and she wasn't afraid to apply it.

Roseanne Barr, right, stops at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Jan. 27 during a two-week excursion to Israel. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Merely after Christmas 2017, a few months before the reboot'south premiere, she tweeted: "i won't be censored or silence chided or corrected and continue to work. I retire right now. I've had plenty. goodbye!"

The tweet did not slip by network brass.

"Sorry to bother you lot with this at the holiday, but wondering if you lot know what spurred this tweet from Roseanne," Channing Dungey, then ABC Entertainment Group president, wrote in an email to the show's executive producer, Tom Werner, on December. 29.

[ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rant]

Thus began an unusual, backside-the-scenes battle, as ABC and Barr'due south producers tried to protect their Tv set property, and Barr continued to speak out on Twitter, her preferred medium for pushing tales of Pizzagate and George Soros too as profane blasts at TV personalities such as Stephen Colbert and Rachel Maddow. The network didn't propose a no-tweet clause in Barr's contact. Instead, every bit revealed by interviews with people close to the show and letters shown to The Washington Post, they spent months nudging her to terminate while besides trying to continue from offending her.

"Information technology was always this dorsum and forth of ABC not wanting to appear they were censoring Roseanne but also not quite pulling out the large guns," says James Moore, Barr's longtime publicist. "Going, 'Yous're 1 tweet away from us canceling the show.' Something that would jar Roseanne."

Despite repeated warnings — and even after her youngest son briefly hid her Twitter password — Barr stayed online.

"I admit it," she says, in her hotel room. "I'1000 a troll. I'm the queen of the f‑‑‑ing trolls."

Barr receives a gift from Israel's civilisation and sport minister. The trip was a gamble for her to render to a land that in previous visits has renewed her spirit. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

A crowd, some wearing "Make America Smashing Again" hats, attend a discussion with Barr. (Melina Mara/The Washington Postal service)

Barr returns to her hotel in Jerusalem. (Melina Mara/The Washington Postal service)

TOP: Barr receives a gift from State of israel's civilization and sport minister. The trip was a chance for her to return to a country that in previous visits has renewed her spirit. LEFT: A crowd, some wearing "Make America Great Again" hats, attend a discussion with Barr. RIGHT: Barr returns to her hotel in Jerusalem. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

'They had to know'

By all accounts, Barr, whose 1990s network go-circular had been surrounded by anarchy — whether it was firings on the set up, the "Star-Spangled Imprint" debacle or that whole Tom Arnold thing — was a model denizen during the reboot, hugging audience members after tapings, hustling to news conferences and blistering chocolate chip cookies for a get-to-know-you-over again lunch with Disney Chairman Bob Iger.

Online, though, she remained as polarizing equally ever.

This shouldn't accept surprised anyone. Comedy is total of misfits and oddballs obsessed with disruption. They roam stages, boob tube sets and the Net, teetering betwixt the sort of shock that sparks deep reflection and that other kind, which leads to groans, backlash or, at worst, a public retraction.

Wasn't that President Trump's bloody, rubber caput that Kathy Griffin offered to the masses? Didn't Samantha Bee call Ivanka a "feckless" four-letter word that rhymes with bunt? And why did Trevor Noah make that joke most Aboriginal women? Of form, they apologized — or, in Griffin'due south case, apologized and and so retracted the apology — and were forgiven.

Barr and her family contend there'south a simple reason she has been treated differently: her back up of Trump.

[Can anyone really blow up the Hollywood arrangement? Ava DuVernay is almost to find out.]

"I'g not saying any of the others should be fired," says Jake Pentland, Barr's twoscore-year-old son who runs her studio and voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016. "I'm a gratuitous speech absolutist. But you can pretty much say whatever you want as long as you supported Hillary Clinton. Soon equally Mom donned that MAGA hat, she was an enemy."

Every bit a comic, Barr has ever ignored the typical standards of subversion. Her freewheeling attacks seem almost designed to rack upwards a list of enemies in high places. It's every bit if she's not just playing for laughs, she'due south trying to blow up the unabridged organisation — even if that means blowing up herself.

After the Jarrett tweet, daughter Jenny Pentland'southward offset words to her mother were to accuse her of self-demolition.

"Yous did this on purpose," she told her.

Barr performs the national canticle at a Padres game in 1990. (Joan Fahrenthold/AP)

Barr and co-star John Goodman arrive at the premiere of the "Roseanne" reboot last March. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

LEFT: Barr performs the national anthem at a Padres game in 1990. (Joan Fahrenthold/AP) RIGHT: Barr and co-star John Goodman arrive at the premiere of the "Roseanne" reboot last March. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The pre-Cyberspace Barr had been the most headline-grabbing comic of her fourth dimension. At her 1990s summit, she blasted the women allegedly harassed past Sen. Bob Packwood, proverb "they should accept just kicked his balls in." In a sprawling New Yorker contour, she called Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Susan Sarandon "castrated females."

Her Twitter feed would get fifty-fifty further.

In 2012, she tweeted the abode address of George Zimmerman'southward parents after the Trayvon Martin shooting. The Zimmermans sued, simply the case was dismissed. As the 2016 election heated up, and she completed her shift from lefty agitator to Trump booster, Barr was distributing deep-state conspiracy theories like a UPS driver on Christmas Eve.

"Her tweets, earlier the one that got her in problem, were absolute nonsense," says Doug Stanhope, a comedian and friend of Barr's who had a bit part on the "Roseanne" reboot. "Zionist things, a Palestinian affair, none of it made sense. The idea that a network would give her a show . . . they had to know what they were getting into."

Whitney Cummings, the "ii Broke Girls" co-creator and an executive producer for the reboot, says Barr was her "hero" back in the day. But she signed onto the show, she admits, without looking closely at Barr's social media: "I had non gone through the years of past tweets, and that was my fault."

Sara Gilbert, who was 13 when she starred in the first "Roseanne" and was a driving force with Werner in reviving the series, felt reassured about the reboot after talking with Barr. "I knew that Roseanne, the person, was unpredictable at times, but she told me this was her redemption," says Gilbert, at present 44. "I chose to believe her."

Information technology didn't take long for Barr'southward tweets to create tension within the evidence'south product team. In Baronial 2017, Barr tweeted to defend Trump'southward handling of the trigger-happy conflict in Charlottesville and attack the Antifa movement. Gilbert and Werner called Moore to set up a conference call. "I don't want to talk well-nigh information technology — it will be gone," Barr emailed Moore, earlier deleting the tweet.

That fall, Gilbert and Werner set up a meeting with Barr and Kelly Bush Novak, the powerful printing agent they had hired to correspond the prove. Novak, who had read an upcoming script involving the grandson'southward curiosity nigh daughter'due south clothes, was concerned the plot would lead the LGBTQ customs to examine Barr's online comments.

And so Novak asked GLAAD, which had once lauded Barr as a champion of gay rights, to prepare a written report called "Roseanne Barr's Anti-Trans" tape. The individual, 27-page certificate chosen her out for such acts every bit "Tweeted story that Obamas killed Joan Rivers for proverb Michelle Obama is a tranny."

"I said, 'I've already apologized' " Barr said, recounting the meeting with Novak. "And I did. Over days on Twitter. You know I understand that there's a real serious consequence with trans lives and trans rights for trans people. They want to be safe. Just you know nosotros tell our little girls to watch out for penises basically to stay prophylactic. So what a mixed message this is. And I think it really needs more analysis and a lot more than chat, and I said that 400 f‑‑‑ing times."

Ultimately, there was only one mode to continue Barr off Twitter. In December 2017, Cadet Thomas, 23, the youngest of Barr'due south 5 children, saw her phone open on the tabular array and grabbed it. He reset her password and signed her out. He had grown weary of her online presence. "And I didn't want her to get in problem before the show even started."

In January, Barr complained about losing social-media access at a huge ABC press event. At some point, the badgering worked. Thomas turned over the password.

A calendar month later, Barr questioned whether the Parkland shooting survivors were actors. Co-showrunner and executive producer Bruce Helford texted Barr, suggesting she accept her tweets downwards before ABC saw them.

"I'chiliad really deplorable to always ask you to concord your vox," he wrote, "merely I think there are even more powerful ways to put ideas out there through the show itself, which I hope we take the opportunity to do many, many more episodes of together."

Barr tours the Old Metropolis of Jerusalem with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who she says saved her life amid the fallout of ABC canceling her evidence. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

A complicated narrator

Barr's trip to Israel is a lot of things. A run a risk to return to a country that in previous visits has renewed her spirit. A way to raise awareness of what she views as the rise of anti-Semitism and the threat of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. A paid-for vacation.

She's been brought here past Shmuley Boteach, who calls himself "America'due south Rabbi" and runs the World Values Network, a New Jersey-based organization funded largely by the Trump-boosting, casino-owning billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Pentland, Barr's daughter, views Boteach as one more in a line of men who cozy up to her mother to get attention.

"At least," she says with a laugh, "she didn't marry him."

Barr considers Boteach a great friend. When ABC canceled her prove and she was holed up in her mom's basement in Utah, chain-smoking and in tears, it was Boteach — not her co-stars — who chosen to check on her.

"Shmuley saved my life," Barr says. "I was suicidal. He was the but person who stood by me and said they were going to destroy me because I honey Trump and Israel."

Boteach also helped Barr deliver what remains the closest thing to a heartfelt apology. He recorded the raw exchange with her two days after the cancellation and aired information technology, a month later, as a podcast. Barr has never listened to it. On the phone call, she tries to explain herself. That she didn't know Jarrett, the Obama adviser, was blackness. She just knew Jarrett had played a part in the Iran nuclear deal, which she hated. Few may believe her, but she insisted that she would have never used the "Planet of the Apes" reference if she had known Jarrett'south race.

"I'm a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff," Barr said on the podcast. "Just I'm not stupid, for God's sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person, I never would have said, 'They are a monkey.' I just wouldn't do that. And people call back that I did that, it just kills me. I didn't do that. And if they do call back that, I'm just so sorry that I was unclear and stupid. I'one thousand very lamentable."

As she tells the story now, from a couch inside her hotel room, Barr is completely unguarded. She doesn't accept a publicist or an agent to lookout man over her. (ICM dropped her after the tweet.) With no makeup or jewelry on, she nibbles at a hummus plate every bit the Jerusalem dominicus descends over the eighth-floor balcony.

Barr teases her son Jake Pentland, 40, who runs her studio. Soon every bit Mom donned that MAGA hat, she was an enemy, he says. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

She's non an unreliable narrator so much equally a complicated one. In that location are moments, now that it'due south over, when she'll insist she never had a chance. The lefty narcissists were e'er going to get her. At that place are other moments when she concedes she should have been smarter. Nobody wanted her on Twitter, not even her kids.

Information technology feels like forever since she had nil at stake, when a short set on "The Tonight Bear witness" on an Baronial night in 1985 introduced the earth to her glorious, spontaneous express mirth and marked the rise of the self-appointed "domestic goddess." Gum-chewing. Overweight. That dry, nasally, Midwestern voice. Acting similar she was virtually to say something and then boring you might likewise change the channel. Except you lot couldn't.

She grew up in a family haunted by a generation wiped out by the Nazis. At 16, Barr was desperately injured when she got hit by a car and, every bit a result, spent months in the country's psychiatric infirmary. As she establish success, she didn't hide her battles with mental illness. She revealed her multiple personality disorder, her compulsions with nutrient, cutting herself and sexual practice, and the years she spent in counseling.

In 1988, Werner and Marcy Carsey, the producers behind "The Cosby Show," brought her to ABC every bit Roseanne Conner, the central effigy of a sitcom that included husband Dan (John Goodman), sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and daughter Darlene (Sara Gilbert). The bear witness went where other sitcoms hadn't — into working-class Centre America. Information technology rose to No. ane on the way to a 9-year run.

"People forget how groundbreaking and how skillful that prove was," says David Mandel, an executive producer on "Veep" and a one-time "Seinfeld" author. "The notion of the house that wasn't perfect and the multiple jobs and the factory line work. Things nosotros had never seen earlier or in this exact way."

Feminist activist and author Barbara Ehrenreich proclaimed Barr "the neglected underside of the American female person experience, bringing together the dandy themes of poverty, obesity and defiance."

"Roseanne" was daring — non only for the famous lesbian buss episode, simply also for the honest way it portrayed gay characters. (Barr's brother and sister are gay.) There was likewise the 1994 episode centered on her son'south refusal to kiss a girl in the schoolhouse play considering she was black.

"I didn't raise you to be some little bigot," she snaps at D.J.

Most sitcoms would have ended in that location, with the star as the hero. Except "Roseanne" adds a scene. A black man approaches her diner one night. Roseanne flips the door'south sign from open to closed. It isn't until the man identifies himself — he's the father of the girl D.J. wouldn't kiss — that Roseanne lets him in. He tells her he'southward non surprised her son is prejudiced.

"If he was a white guy with the exact same build in those exact same clothes, you would accept done the exact same thing," sister Jackie says.

"Yeah, well, I'm glad one of u.s. is certain," Roseanne responds, as the credits begin to roll.

Barr had big aspirations for the Roseanne reboot until an explosive tweet ended it all. (Melina Mara/The Washington Mail service)

Beginning of the cease

Barr had high hopes for the reboot when she signed on in early on 2017. Her politics had shifted hard to Trump. Merely the country was deeply divided. The reboot would show that American families, like her own, could disagree politically without antisocial each other.

"She really wanted to bring people together and get them talking about it," Goodman says.

The first episode, which premiered March 27, found Roseanne, a Trump supporter, re-connecting with Jackie, who wore a pink pussy hat and "Nasty Woman" T-shirt to dinner.

It also tackled racial issues. Roseanne had a blackness granddaughter, and in that location was the Muslim couple moving onto the street. At commencement, Roseanne snickered that they were "a sleeper cell getting ready to blow up our neighborhood" — until she met them and realized that she had been unfair.

Off screen, Barr'southward politics were harder to resolve. At a January news conference in Los Angeles, reporters pressed Barr virtually Trump. She mostly deflected them. So she took a question from Soraya Nadia McDonald of the Undefeated, an ESPN website.

McDonald, a onetime Washington Post reporter who is African American, told Barr how much she appreciated as a kid watching Roseanne Conner blast her son for refusing to kiss a black classmate. But wouldn't that same Roseanne find "candidate Trump's xenophobia or racism to be a disqualifying trait for the part of the presidency?"

Barr: Well, that's your stance.

McDonald: But he said Mexicans were rapists.

Barr: Well, he says a lot of crazy s‑‑‑.

"It was a trial," Goodman says at present. "I but idea we were going to do this dumb a‑‑ 'Entertainment Tonight' s‑‑‑ but it just got heavy quickly. I can sympathize that there was still a lot of residual acrimony about Trump. . . . But she's entitled to the way she voted."

For Barr, already a conspiracy theorist, the message was clear. Everybody was in on information technology: ABC, the producers, even the press. They couldn't sit down idly as a Trump crazy took over their television sets.

She felt betrayed in May when the ABC entertainment president, Dungey, in a conference call with reporters, said the adjacent season of "Roseanne" would move away from politics.

Who told her that? Barr had been planning to cast Luenell Campbell, an African American comedian and a good friend, and dig deeper into race.

Helford, the co-showrunner and executive producer, was equally baffled as Barr when Dungey talked about the testify's new direction. During "Roseanne'due south" first run, Barr had considerable ascendancy, forcing out the prove's co-creator, Matt Williams, only 13 episodes in. This time, she began to feel powerless. When she learned the writers were starting piece of work on the reboot's second flavour without her involvement, she idea, "Oh, they took my show."

Helford takes event with that. "We didn't practice annihilation without consulting her," he says. "One of the agreements was that Tom, her, Sara Gilbert and I would work as a grouping and whoever had the best idea would be the 1 who would win. She was very much a part of everything we were doing."

But at present, every bit he hears her take, Helford tin see how Barr may take grown wary. There were the abiding nudges from the producers over her tweets, the cognition that her colleagues differed so much politically and that jarring argument from Dungey.

"I sympathise why she was paranoid and why she would feel the network wasn't in sync with her," he says. "But no one came to us and said 'You've got to exercise information technology our way,' and not what Roseanne wants."

That evening in May, while Barr was visiting her mother in Utah and feeling down near the prove'due south direction, she says she took an Ambien and dozed off adjacent to her laptop. In the middle of the night, she woke up and saw a thread started by SGTreport, whose tag is "the corporate propaganda antidote." SGTreport referenced a WikiLeaks "bombshell," which would apparently reveal that the Obama CIA had been spying on the French government.

@MARS0411 responded by bringing upwardly the Obama aide: "Jarrett helped hide a lot."

It was 2:45 a.m. in Utah when Barr replied to the thread: "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a infant=vj."

Barr has continuously repeated that she was comparing the flick to Iran'southward repressive regime. But even she understands it's a bound to translate that from those 53 characters.

That morning, people who didn't know Barr slammed the tweet as racist. Her friends figured it was another perplexing online smash.

In the morning, ABC held an emergency call with Barr, Werner and Disney/ABC Idiot box Group President Ben Sherwood.

Why did you do that? Sherwood asked her.

"I'thousand a comedian," Barr told him. "Nosotros step in south‑‑‑ all the time. I already took it down. What else can I do?"

At one:48 p.m., only hours later on, ABC canceled "Roseanne," after Iger called Jarrett to personally repent. (Jarrett declined to speak to The Post.) In a argument that forenoon, Dungey called the tweet "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values." Werner would eventually negotiate a settlement with Barr — neither party will say for how much — and so ABC could launch a spinoff. When the network announced "The Conners" on June 21, the release made sure to note that Barr would have "no financial or artistic interest."

That bargain now infuriates Barr. She says Werner told her she would be a hero if she signed over her rights and saved and so many jobs. He would go out and say Barr was non racist. She had fifty-fifty hoped to perhaps render to the show. Instead, "The Conners" killed off Roseanne with an opioid overdose in the outset episode. And Werner remained virtually silent.

Barr does meditation and pranayama in her hotel room, where she stayed during a two-calendar week excursion to the Holy Land. (Melina Mara/The Washington Mail)

Despite warnings from ABC last year almost her tweets, Barr stayed online. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

But at that place are moments she concedes she should have been smarter. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

TOP: Barr does meditation and pranayama in her hotel room, where she stayed during a two-week excursion to the Holy Land. LEFT: Despite warnings from ABC concluding twelvemonth about her tweets, Barr stayed online. RIGHT: But in that location are moments she concedes she should accept been smarter. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

She too can't forgive Gilbert. On May 29, 27 minutes earlier ABC appear the cancellation, Gilbert tweeted that Barr's comments were "abhorrent and do non reflect the behavior of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show."

"She destroyed the show and my life with that tweet," Barr says. "She will never get enough until she consumes my liver with a fine Chianti."

Gilbert, in a brief interview with The Mail service about Barr, said that "while I'thou extremely disappointed and heartbroken over the dissolution of the original evidence, she volition always be family, and I will e'er dearest Roseanne."

[Analysis | Roseanne Barr launched her new YouTube career by yelling an explanation for her Valerie Jarrett tweet]

Similar Gilbert, Werner reluctantly agreed to an interview with The Mail after commencement declining several times. He said his focus has been on keeping the bandage and crew working. He likewise acknowledged that, subsequently the counterfoil, distributors had briefly taken the show'southward original nine seasons off the air, with deep financial implications for him and Barr. The original series is available once again. ABC, though, has pulled the "Roseanne" reboot from all platforms. (Iger, Sherwood and Dungey declined interview requests.)

"The process has been hard for me," Werner says. "I did not want the concluding note of the series to be such a sour 1."

When asked about Barr's complaint that he had not defended her, Werner said he has always found "her to exist tolerant of others and inclusive."

"It's my belief that Roseanne is not a racist person," Werner said, "although I find the tweet to exist repugnant and racist."

Goodman calls Barr's tweet "stupid" and "incoherent," but also says she isn't racist. He believes that defending her volition probably turn people against him. But he feels terrible for her. He texted her last May but didn't press when she didn't write back.

Luenell, the comedian Barr planned to cast on the show, remains torn. Barr had been i of her supporters and heroes, someone who "represented hope" for outsiders who didn't fit into Hollywood culture. Only she remains unhappy with how Barr handled herself later on her tweet.

"The way she could have got some traction is if she immediately did a news conference and said, 'I accept f‑‑‑ed upwardly. I am an idiot. I'm going to be seeing somebody to try to go myself together. I apologize to Valerie Jarrett. I apologize to the African American community and when you see me again, I'm going to be a more sensitive, responsible Roseanne.' If she said that, she might be able to chill and come back."

Barr visits Yad Vashem, State of israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

New outlets

In Jerusalem, Barr meets with attorneys as she considers whether to sue ABC or Werner or anybody involved. She talks about an upcoming gig scheduled for Detroit and other potential projects, including a cartoon show and a Torah-themed program with Boteach.

At the Brainstorm Center, after scolding Bin Nun, Barr calls on another announcer: Jordana Miller, a local television correspondent.

"To be honest, I had kind of a spiritual question virtually what happened with ABC," Miller says. "Why, looking dorsum, do you retrieve this really happened?"

Yous can feel the mood shift. Barr walks to the front of the phase.

"Oh my God," Barr says. "I'chiliad and then glad you asked that."

She launches into what will finer exist an 8-infinitesimal monologue. It's May 29. She'due south in Utah, so proud to tell her mother she'south dorsum at No. 1. That night, she surfs around all this Iran stuff, goes to bed and wakes up to find that, as she puts it, "Roseanne said that black people await similar monkeys."

She talks of pleading with ABC — to repent, to get help, to practice anything — and her voice cracks as she recounts how quickly they canceled "Roseanne."

"I can't believe that information technology takes them a year to get paper towels in the bathroom, but Disney in forty minutes decided to fire me from my own creation," Barr says.

But she doesn't sound angry. She'due south in control.

"I was and then embarrassed in front of my mother, because she's finally so proud of me that I was not married to any a‑‑pigsty. . . . You lot know. You know what I hateful?"

She laughs.

"I know you're all bored to death. I'll end quick."

The story ends in her mother's basement. She's terrified that everybody hates her, of the paparazzi gathered outside, when a group of fans knock on the door.

"And they said, 'We don't think it's correct what they did to her. We know she's non racist.' And they said, 'Here's some cookies.' ''

Barr chokes upward once again.

Information technology could exist a cheery ending, the comic reconnecting with her fans. Except this is Roseanne Barr — and as soon as she returns to Los Angeles, she's in the news again. Her Twitter remains off-limits. Daughters Jenny, 42, and Jessica Pentland, 44, each take office of the password so Barr can't bully one of them into turning it over.

So, Barr finds other outlets.

In a cocky-made YouTube video posted Feb. 16, Barr calls Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Northward.Y.) a "Farrakhan-loving . . . bug-eyed bitch." On a podcast hosted by Fox News commentator Candace Owens in early March, she calls the creators of the #MeToo move "hos" and attacks Supreme Courtroom Justice Brett Thousand. Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford.

On a Sat night, merely afterward the Owens podcast makes headlines, Barr is asked if there'south a part of her that ever considers quieting down, just for a few months, similar everybody keeps telling her to. Wouldn't that help? Wouldn't that brand things easier?

"I can't," she says in a text message. "Practise I await like the kind of woman who obeys?"

On the Jerusalem trip, Barr, left, considers her next steps. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

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