Two months after losing her primetime show on ABC over a racist comment she made about a senior Obama administration official, actor Roseanne Barr admitted she has struggled for decades with multiple personality disorder, but no longer suffers from the condition,
also known as dissociative identity disorder.
“You have said in the past, to Larry
K
ing, that you suffer from multiple personality disorder,” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Barr in an interview that aired late Thursday.
“Well, I don’t suffer from it anymore. I enjoy it, now,” Barr replied.
Minutes later, Barr’s tone changed.
“You have had crazy moments. Let’s just be honest,” Hannity said, after reciting a list of provocative comments Barr made prior to her now-deleted tweet
about
Valerie Jarrett
,
”
Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”
[More: Roseanne Barr says she didn’t know Valerie Jarrett was black, apologizes, tells her to get a haircut]
“Well, you should not call a mental health patient crazy. In fact, that’s one funny thing that Tom Arnold said
:
Never call a crazy person ‘crazy
.
‘ But I have mental
health issues, yes. I had mental health issues.”
Barr said the process of being “institutionalized” was “like going to the beach for me” and that it had happened “several” times.
She said she “fully integrated” and got professional help as the result of her pregnancy with her son.
“I wanted to get better. This happened to me when I was pregnant with my son
,” she said of her son
, who is now
23 and graduating from college
.
“When I was pregnant with him
,
first they implanted six eggs and four took. I was like, ‘Oh my
G
od,'” Barr recalled.
“I was at Planet Hollywood and I told Bruce Willis, ‘I am having quadruplets,
‘” she continued. “Then I started to lose them. They put me in this thing where I absorbed them
.
M
y body absorbed them and there was only one egg left and it’s hanging
—
didn’t know whether to come or go. They got me on this biofeedback where I would say, ‘I want you to stay,’ into this machine.
“It worked, but the deep spiritual thing of that
—
it started to fill all of the parts of me that were crazy and out of control. I learned to focus and meditate. That helped me a lot with therapy and medication,” Barr said.
