While numerous celebrities cheered Jimmy Kimmel ’s return to ABC on Tuesday night (September 23), Roseanne Barr wasn’t among them — instead, she slammed the network for what she described as a “double standard.”

Speaking to NewsNation on Tuesday, Barr, whose sitcom Roseanne was canceled in 2018 after she posted a racist comment about former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett on X (then Twitter), said ABC showed a “double standard” by reinstating Kimmel while she had her “whole life ruined.”

“It just shows how they think. I got my whole life ruined, no forgiveness, all of my work stolen, and called a racist for time and eternity, for racially misgendering someone,” she said, per Entertainment Weekly . “It’s a double standard.”

The Roseanne revival was canceled by ABC in 20

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