Though Roseanne Barr doesn’t have a television home to call her own, she never seems to stray very far from TV.
Barr will appear on Dr. Oz on Tuesday to discuss the fallout of her racist tweet about former President Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, the subsequent cancellation of the Roseanne reboot and what’s next for the actress.
In a clip from the interview released by the talk show Tuesday morning, Barr remarks on where she plans to be when the Roseanne spin-off series, The Conners, which she has no part in, debuts next month.
“Oh, yeah, I don’t want to be around, because I’ll get drawn into a negative thing of defending myself or being angry for being mischaracterized,” Barr says. “I want to stay away from it. I want to stay in a joyous, positive, happy place that I’ve worked my way to again in my life.”
On Monday night, Barr appeared with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills for an event titled Is America a Forgiving Nation? — tied to Yom Kippur — wherein the comedian spoke extensively about the events of the last year.
“It physically defeated me, and I was just levelled,” Barr said. “It was so depressing, like a death.”
Barr wasn’t so emotional that she couldn’t speculate about the demise of her iconic character Roseanne Conner, however.
The actress suggested that Conner will be killed off by an opioid overdose, and said while she wasn’t 100 per cent sure, that was what her “spies” had told her.
Last month, The Conners star John Goodman speculated that his TV wife would be killed off and his character would be depressed and dealing with that when the series premiered. Roseanne Conner’s opioid addiction also played a pivotal role in the Roseanne reboot this year.
Representatives for ABC declined to comment on Barr’s theories.