Rosanne Barr refuses to take accountability for the tweet that ended her career , seven years later.
Instead, the actress blamed a higher power for uploading the racist message on X (then known as Twitter) about Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to President Obama, in 2018.
“The way I feel about it is God told me to do what I did, and it was a nuclear bomb,” the “Roseanne” alum told Variety in an interview published Friday.
The 72-year-old claimed she had been “having nightmares” about reprising her role on the ABC show until “God woke [her] up.”
She recalled, “I had my laptop there in bed, as always, and I opened it, and there was [a 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