Roseanne Barr accused ABC executives of “spying” on her because of her support for President Donald Trump before the network cancelled her show. “They spied,” Barr told The Daily Mail. “They monitored everything I did. They wanted to censor me from the very beginning.” Her paranoid statement echoes claims made by Trump, who in 2017 famously accused former President Barack Obama of “wiretapping” Trump Tower—a claim that remains unsubstantiated. Barr’s hit sitcom, Roseanne, was briefly revived on the network in 2018—more than 20 years after its original run ended. However, the MAGA comedian’s program suffered a rapid demise after she posted a tweet that called Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, who is Black, a mix between the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.” Just three months after returning to air, Roseanne was axed by ABC, which called the post ”abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values.” Seven years later, Barr, 72, told the Mail that ABC was to blame for the fallout: “They hijacked that tweet and made out it said something that it didn’t.” She said her biggest regret from the incident was deigning to apologize. ABC did not immediately return a request for comment.
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