WATCH: Roseanne says being canceled ‘ruined my life’ and made her ‘unsafe’
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After her new comedy special premiered on Monday, Roseanne Barr said that her 2018 cancellation “ruined” her life and left her feeling “unsafe” in an interview.
Barr, 70, joined Outnumbered on Fox News to promote the new special on Fox Nation titled Cancel This!
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“I felt like I fell on the sword of the double standards of the Left,” she said.
“I was the only one who got canceled,” Barr said. “I looked back at even the people at ABC and the things they have done and not been canceled for doing, [which] are far more egregious than the mistake I made.”
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Of her mistake, which led to her cancellation, she joked that “I racially misgendered a person that I assumed to be white.”
Barr was referencing her 2018 tweet about former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, in which she said if the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”
“When the network called me to say, ‘what have you done,’ I said, ‘I am so sorry, but I assumed that this was a white woman,'” she explained.
“I guess they saw because I supported President Trump or whatever reasons they had, they saw also an opening to take my show away from me,” she claimed.
According to Barr, “the next day it was ‘racist, racist, racist, racist, racist,’ which ruined my life and, you know, made it unsafe for me to walk down the street.”
She also revealed that ABC didn’t allow her to appear on any of its shows to explain herself.
The network “should have allowed me to go on your other news shows, particularly those ones hosted by people who have done blackface and you never fired them,” she said. “You should have let me go on there. You know Joy Behar did blackface, you didn’t fire her. Jimmy Kimmel and his girlfriend Sarah Silverman, they did blackface and you never even, like, said it is wrong that you did that, and they just let that go.”
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Barr further told the hosts that people would privately tell her, “We want to say we are so sorry and that we know you made a mistake and you are not racist” after she was canceled. However, only a few people would come out publicly to say the same.
Cancel This! is available for streaming on Fox Nation.