Roseanne Barr claims she has 'been offered so many' opportunities to return to TV

Roseanne Barr has said that she has "been offered so many opportunities" to return to television and" almost already accepted one".

The star had the reboot of her show Roseanne (originally aired from 1988 to 97) cancelled by ABC in May this year after comparing Obama's former advisor Valerie Jarrett to a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes in a tweet.  

In a recently released podcast interview with her friend and columnist for the Jerusalem Post, Shmuley Boteach,  Roseanne discussed remorse for her actions and moving forward with other opportunities.

Barr said: “Inside every bad thing is a good thing waiting to happen. I feel very excited because I’ve already been offered so many things and I almost already accepted one really good offer to go back on TV and I might do it, but we’ll see."

Regarding the inflammatory tweet, Barr stated that she was “very sorry” and had “made a huge error,” She blamed the incident largely on her own “stupidity”, and continued to argue that she had not known Jarrett was black. She told Boteach:

“I'm a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff, but I'm not stupid for God's sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person a monkey. I just wouldn't do that. I didn't do that.”

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Barr said the thing that hurt her most was that she had offended African-American loved ones, particularly her on-screen granddaughter Mary (played by nine year-old Jayden Rey), as she sobbed: “She is African American and she loved me and I loved her.

"I did not want her to not have a job because she's great. I did not want her to think badly of Jewish people and me specifically."

Originally, Barr had blamed her inflammatory tweet on the sleeping pill Ambien, but the company quickly discredited her claims.

She said that she had tried to obtain Jarrett's phone number and make amends, but was unsure what she would say to her. She said: "It's all about right words and you have to do a lot of meditating and praying for the right words and I just don’t know what the right words would be."

ABC are currently moving forward with a Roseanne spinoff series focusing on the Conner family without the titular star. Barr agreed to step away from the series and "didn’t ask to be paid off".

She told Boteach, "Signing off of my own life’s work and asking for nothing in return, I thought that was a penance.”

However, as Barr claims to have been offered various another TV deals, it may not be long until she has another sitcom under her belt.