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Roseanne Barr Fans Call Her a 'Legend' After Fiery Statement About Spinoff
Roseanne Barr Fans Call Her a 'Legend' After Fiery Statement About Spinoff originally appeared on Parade.
In her new documentary, Roseanne Barr is America, boldly claims to have received an offer to play a guest-starring role on The Conners.
That may come as a shock to some because of how The Conners came to be. In an era of reboots, ABC brought back the beloved Roseanne for a 10th season in 2018. Unfortunately, the show was canceled just as fast as it was brought back because of Barr's offensive online behavior.
ABC opted to kill off Barr's character via an opioid overdose, thus ending her namesake show that listed her as co-creator and executive producer.
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Adding insult to injury, the network almost immediately ordered up a new show, The Conners. The spinoff cast nearly everyone else from her TV family and continued the story without her, putting Sara Gilbert in charge as an executive producer.
So when The Conners came calling on Barr to pick up a guest-starring role as a ghost of her dead character, it did not go over well.
In her new documentary, Barr explained, "They called me and asked me if I would like to come back as a guest star. You're coming back as a ghost."
Barr reacted as one would expect, with anger. She recalled, "You're asking me to come back to the show that you f--king stole from me and killed my ass, and now you want me to show up because you got shit f--king ratings and play a ghost?"
Barr's fans have been thrilled to see her back and are eating up this new documentary, Roseanne Barr is America. Unsurprisingly, many don't have great things to say about The Conners and are siding squarely with Barr over her decision not to return.
"I love Rosanne. I was going to watch the reboot, but not after what they did to her. It's her show. I can't stand Sara Gilbert. She is another confused kid growing up in Hollywierd," one fan wrote.
Another declared, "You are an absolute legend Roseanne!"
"What they did to Rosanne was wrong!!!" another wrote.
Even on X, Barr's fans couldn't believe The Conners tried to bring her back after she was fired.
"Roseanne as a ghost? Insult or irony—Hollywood never disappoints," said one X user.
On Facebook, a Barr fan said," I would turned that down too. The nerve."
One dissenter argued that Rosanne as a ghost on The Conners would be "Top tier."
Roseanne Barr Fans Call Her a 'Legend' After Fiery Statement About Spinoff first appeared on Parade on Jun 11, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
