*Roseanne Barr “begged” her ABC bosses not to cancel her, even offering to go on an extended apology tour for her insensitive tweets, Page Six reports.
But Disney/ABC Television Group President Ben Sherwood rejected her pleas and condemned the former actress for her racist and anti-Semitic posts.
“I begged Ben Sherwood at ABC 2 let me apologize & make amends. I begged them not to cancel the show,” Barr tweeted on Thursday night.
“I told them I was willing to do anything & asked 4 help in making things right. I’d worked doing publicity4 them 4free for weeks, traveling, thru bronchitis. I begged4 ppls jobs.”
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Roseanne Barr: ‘I begged’ ABC not to cancel my show
African Americans in this country have been begging white people to look past their skin pigment for about 160 years now. Do you think we care Roseanne?
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 1, 2018
She also claimed in a since-deleted tweet that she offered to go to the hospital and “check my meds” in an effort to save her television show.
“I also told Ben Sherman that I would go in hospital to check my meds, bc the stress had made them less effective,” Barr wrote.
She later followed up with: “He said: what were you thinking when you did this? I said: I thought she was white, she looks like my family! He scoffed & said: ‘what u have done is egregious, and unforgivable.’ I begged 4 my crews jobs. Will I ever recover from this pain? Omg.”
According to reports, ABC’s abrupt cancellation of “Roseanne” cost about 200 actors, writers and crew members their job.
In related news, director Michael Moore announced Wednesday that he has been working on a secret project for months that involves Donald Trump and Roseanne Barr.
His announcement comes days after ABC canceled the reboot of “Roseanne” following Barr’s racist tweet likening former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a “Planet of the Apes” character.
Ha! The White House today, still not denouncing Roseanne’s racism, tries to confuse the issue by going after Samantha Bee’s brilliant rant against Ivanka last night. Watch it here: https://t.co/Y6yZVG6AjF SAM BEE: TRUTH-TELLER!
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) May 31, 2018
And then there’s this…
I know Roseanne. And I know Trump. And they are about to rue the day they knew me… pic.twitter.com/vW81Gq7s1i
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) May 30, 2018
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