Actor Roseanne Barr claims ABC killed off her TV character through an opioid overdose, and she’s not happy about it.
Barr said in the follow-up show to “Roseanne,” called “The Conners,” the writers wrote a script that included her dying as the result of overdosing on opioids, according to an interview she gave YouTube personality Brandon Straka.
“Oh yeah, they killed her,” Barr said. “They have her die of an opioid overdose.”
Barr did not specify if her character died specifically from street heroin, prescription drugs, or even fentanyl.
“There’s nothing I can do about it,” Barr admitted in the episode. “It’s done. It’s over.”
Barr came under national criticism in May when she compared Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman who served in former President Barack Obama’s White House, to looking like the offspring of “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.”
Barr’s former co-star John Goodman had previously shared that the show’s writers planned to write an episode in which her character died after the network fired her following the controversial tweet.
