Roseanne Barr will appear on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show this week for her first broadcast interview after being sacked by ABC for a racist tweet.
Barr will react to reports about her tweet and be interviewed about President Trump on the show, which will be broadcast at 9pm ET on Thursday.
The main interview will take place live with additional portions to be broadcast the following evening, according to Fox.
Roseanne Barr will appear on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Thursday for her first broadcast interview since being sacked by ABC
Barr delivered ABC’s biggest hit of the year with her 90s sitcom revival, but saw it canned after she put out a racist tweet about Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
Hannity secured the sit-down despite Barr saying just last week that she wouldn’t do any more TV interviews because they’re too ‘stressful and untrustworthy’.
Barr delivered ABC’s biggest hit of the year when she revived her working-class 90s sitcom Roseanne for the modern political climate earlier this year.
She even won praise from President Trump, who told supporters at his rallies to watch the show because ‘it’s about us’.
The network quickly renewed the Roseanne reboot for a second season, but reversed that decision just as quickly after Barr put out her tweet.
On May 29, Barr was responding to a tweet about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett when she wrote: ‘Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.’
The tweet prompted a storm of criticism and condemnation, including from the show’s own cast and production team.
In the end, Roseanne was cancelled before reaching the end of its initial season.
In the tweet, which has since been deleted, Barr said Jarrett looked like the ‘Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby’
Barr’s appearance on Hannity comes despite her saying in a YouTube video released last week that she would not be doing TV interviews because they are ‘too stressful and untrustworthy’
ABC subsequently announced it would be making a spin-off show but without the titular character.
Barr later deleted and apologized for the tweet, saying she was impaired by the sleep drug Ambien at the time she was posting.
But she has continued to deny comparing African Americans to apes, saying her words were misconstrued while using her own Jewish heritage to insist the she is also being victimized.
Last week she posted a video to her YouTube channel in which she claimed that she was fired ‘because I voted for Donald Trump and that is not allowed in Hollywood.’
Barr, 65, then repeated claims that her tweet couldn’t be racist because she thought Jarrett was white.
Barr said she told ABC executives that she would go any talk show they wanted and explain the situation to her audience but they fired her.
‘Instead, 40 minutes after that my show was canceled before even one advertiser pulled out and I was labeled a racist,’ Barr says.
Barr says the video is her ‘official statement’ on the incident and it will ‘continue to be forever because it is the truth’.