Roseanne Barr claims God told me to send 2018 racist tweet that derailed her career

Roseanne Barr is getting candid on the tweet that got her canceled from Hollywood.The actress, 72, starred in the hit sitcom “Roseanne” for 10 seasons from 1988 to 1997 before the show was rebooted in 2018.The revival, however, was short-lived due to a racist tweet Barr sent out that year.Now, the “Get Bruce” alum is doubling down, admitting she has no regrets.“The way I feel about it is that God told me to do what I did, and it was a nuclear bomb,” Barr told Variety in an interview published on Friday, June 6.

“The day of my tweet, over 2 million Americans Googled Valerie Jarrett and the Iran deal.And that was my intent.

So, whatever.”In 2018, Barr tweeted a picture of Jarrett next to Helena Bonham Carter and wrote, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”The comedian noted to the outlet that she feels she posted “the perfect caption.”“I was already having nightmares about never going back to that show [‘Roseanne’], and God woke me up,” Barr recalled about sending off the tweet that night while also noting again that she was on a mixture of alcohol and Ambien.“I had my laptop there in bed, as always,” Barr explained, “and I opened it, and there was [an X post with] a picture of Valerie Jarrett next to Helena Bonham Carter in full makeup as Ari in ‘Planet of the Apes,’ and they looked like Xerox copies of each other, so I captioned it.”Jarrett, 68, was born in Iran and helped facilitate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal under President Barack Obama’s administration.Despite high first season ratings, the “Roseanne” revival was canceled by ABC after Barr’s tweet.Channing Dungey, ABC’s Entertainment president at the time, said the Emmy winner’s words were “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”Disney CEO Bob Iger said, “There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.”However, Barr feels otherwise, sharing that her tweet was not racist and for ...