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"Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood" explores the controversy that led to Roseanne Barr's fall from grace. The 69-year-old comedian spent the documentary explaining her reasoning behind the tweet that led to the swift cancellation of her revived sitcom "Roseanne." Barr called her firing a "witch-burning" and claimed that she had been having issues with ABC regarding everything she tweeted. "Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,' I got a call for," Barr claimed during the Reelz documentary, which is set to air on April 24.
The documentary touched on the time Barr tweeted about a conspiracy theory that a Parkland school shooting survivor had given a Nazi salute at a rally for stricter gun control in the U.S. Roseanne Barr called her firing from Disney an "intellectual witch-burning" in a new documentary. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for NBC) Barr ended up removing the tweet at the time and issued a correction.
"I removed it every time they called," Barr said. "And they called frequently." The comedian also admitted everyone was "begging" her to leave the social media app behind following multiple controversial moments. "Everyone was begging me to give up my Twitter.
Everyone," Barr recalled. "My kids were trying to lock me out, but I wouldn't because it's like I just couldn't." Despite being pressured to leave the social media app, Barr said she couldn't do it. "I'm a g------ American and I'm not going to do it," she explained.
"I'm a comic. I'm a bad girl. I'm too rock and roll.
I'm going to say f--- it and f--- you until I take my last breath." "Roseanne: Kicked out of Hollywood" airs April 24. (AP Photo/Joan Fahrenthold, File) Eventually, one of Barr's tweets led to the cancellation of the revived series. The
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The View” turned their hot topics conversation Tuesday to news that broke the eve before — a leaked opinion from Supreme Court Justice Alito indicating the court would be overturning Roe v. Wade.While moderator Whoopi Goldberg made sure to note that the leaked document, which Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed was authentic Tuesday morning, was a “draft opinion,” it is said to represent the majority of the court, who were ruling on a case out of Mississippi that challenged abortion rights.Longtime “View” panelist Joy Behar said she first heard about the news during a break in her sleep schedule.
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Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as secretary of state who died last month at the age of 84, was remembered as a tenacious defender of American ideals and freedom around the globe during a funeral service honoring her legacy on Wednesday.More than 1,400 dignitaries, current and former U.S. officials and top lawmakers were in attendance for the ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral. President Biden, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed Albright's decades-long influence on U.S.
Roseanne Barr is no stranger to controversy. Throughout her decades-long career, the 69-year-old actress has faced numerous occurrences of public scrutiny; however, nothing compares to the 2018 twitter scandal that led to her removal from the “Roseanne” revival.
and killed her off — her eponymous sitcom following controversial remarks way back in 2018.Barr’s new Reelz documentary — “Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood” — gets raw about her ousting from the revival of her ’90s sitcom “Roseanne,” which is now known as “The Conners.” The outspoken star alleged that ABC always had issues with her contentious (the network president labeled them “repugnant”) tweets and comments — and engaged in “intellectual witch-burning” to silence her.In 2018, ABC cancelled the original “Roseanne” reboot after Barr’s racist tweet comparing former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the offspring of the “Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”‘I’m a comic. I’m a bad girl … I’m going to say f— it and f— you until I take my last breath.’“Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,’ I got a call for,” Barr claimed in regards to the network’s management methods.The doc also dives deep into the moment Barr tweeted about a conspiracy theory about a Parkland school shooting survivor giving a Nazi salute at a rally for harder gun control.She would up deleting the tweet. “I removed it every time they called,” she said.
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