Roseanne Barr: “I Begged Ben Sherwood” To Save Show And Jobs

Roseanne Barr: “I Begged Ben Sherwood” To Save Show And Jobs

Roseanne Barr tweeted this evening that she “begged” Disney-ABC Television Group President Ben Sherwood to let her apologize, “not to cancel the show,” and “4 help in making things right.”

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‘I begged4 ppls jobs,” Barr said in the latest of a storm of tweets this afternoon and early evening.

On the other hand, this tweet came shortly after Barr retweeted a celebration of President Donald Trump’s announcement he was pardoning Dinesh D’Souza because he was “treated very unfairly by our government!” – D’Souza being a guy who, in turn, had once retweeted that then-President Obama was a gay Muslim.

One day earlier, in a memo to staff, Sherwood said the cancellation of the Roseanne revival “came down to doing what’s right and upholding our values of inclusion, tolerance and civility.”

In an afternoon of self pitying tweets, Barr today also said it had been a “joyous experience” to work on the Roseanne show again but “not the right time,” and that “going out on top is good!”

She also tweeted an announcement that she forgives Roseanne cast members Michael Fishman and Sara Gilbert – whose jobs on the hit comedy series she lost for them with her racist tweet comparing former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape – because they had tweeted their alarm over her tweet rather than calling her personally “2 talk rather than do it in a public arena.”

Barr’s most recent tweet:

I begged Ben Sherwood at ABC 2 let me apologize & make amends. I begged them not to cancel the show. 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.

— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) May 31, 2018