TV show ‘Roseanne’ cancelled after star posts a tweet comparing former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape
In a since-deleted comment on Twitter, Roseanne Barr wrote that Jarrett looked as though ‘muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby’
US comedian Roseanne Barr said she was tired of being “attacked and belittled” and blamed sleep aid Ambien for her tweet comparing a black former government official to an ape, a racist remark that sparked outrage and led to cancellation of her television show Roseanne.
Barr said in a series of tweets on Tuesday and early on Wednesday that what she did was “unforgiveable” when she posted on Twitter that if the Islamist political movement “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj”, referring to Valerie Jarrett, a former aide to president Barack Obama.
The offending tweet has since been deleted.
“It was 2 in the morning and I was Ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible,” she wrote. “I made a mistake I wish I hadn’t but … don’t defend it please.”
In other tweets, Barr said that she was tired of “being attacked and belittled more than other comedians who have said worse” and asked for people not to boycott ABC, saying that the network has the right to “do what they wish”.