Roseanne Mulls Return To TV, But Not With "The Conners"
LOS ANGELES (CNN) - Roseanne Barr said that her TV career is not over. Weeks after ABC canceled "Roseanne" for her racist Twitter rant, and then revived the sitcom as "The Conners," Barr spoke on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's podcast for the second time, and said that she has been fielding "many" television offers.
"Inside every bad thing is a good thing waiting to happen," Barr said in the podcast published over the weekend. "I feel very excited because I've already been offered so many things, and I've almost accepted one really good offer to go back on TV, and I might do it. But we'll see."
Barr starred on ABC's "Roseanne" from 1988 to 1997 and was an executive producer on the series. A reboot of "Roseanne" premiered in March with 18.2 million viewers.
Barr said that her decision to walk away from "The Conners" without a fight is her way of "penance."
"I didn't want to hurt the new show," Barr said. "I was very upset about hurting things that I care about and hurting people I care about. Specifically, the little girl who played my granddaughter on the 'Roseanne' show. She's African American, her name is Jaden [Rey], and she loved me and I loved her. I did not want her to not have a job because she's great."
Barr added, "I didn't ask to be paid off. I asked for nothing and I just stepped away ... because that is penance and I put a lot of thought into it."
Barr said that it will be difficult to see the show continue without being a part of it. "That didn't hurt me as bad as knowing every story came from my own life, and now they'll continue those stories and they won't necessarily be the way I intended when I laid them out," she said. "To change my work too is pretty painful. I can't do anything about it. I can only expand on what I meant."
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