Roseanne Barr claims the Conners has offered her a ghost role

Roseanne Barr claimed she was asked to appear on her The Conners After his character was killed off the franchise – but eventually refused the proposal.

“They phoned me and asked me and would like to come back as a guest star,” Barr, 72, allegedly in her new documentary, Roseanne Barr is AmericaPure People. “You come back as a spirit.”

Barr said she was in disbelief that ABC would ask her to return to the franchise after she was fired years earlier. “You ask me to come back to the show that you’ve stolen me and killed my bin, and now you want me to display because you have a f *** ing rating and play spirit?” She remembered thinking, claiming that her response was, “I’m going to be bowling that week f *** ing.”

Barr starred on Roseanne, And she created, between 1988 and 1997. The ABC’s Sitcom followed the title character and her working -class family in the fictional town of Llanford, Illinois. John Goodman. Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert also stars.

The cast returned for 10th season in 2018, decades after the first broadcast series ended, but was eventually canceled later that year as a result of Barr’s Controversial social media Jobs.

“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is offensive, offensive, and inconsistent with our values,” ABC President Entertainment Channing Dungey He said in a statement after Barr issued an apology. Subsequently, ABC moved all the references to the Reformation series on its press site and Viacom drew all the second -range of the sitcom of all its channels.

Roseanne Then he was revived as The Conners, ran for seven seasons between 2018 and 2025. Goodman, Metcalf and Gilbert re -reported their married roles, and the character of Barr killed off the screen After an accidental opioid overdose. In her absence, the show revealed that Roseanne had been struggling with bondage exacerbated by head -to -head pain and lack of insurance.

“I can’t steal it so I don’t (watch),” Barr told the Los Angeles Times In February 2023 of the side -effect. “When they killed my character, that was my message, knowing that I was mentally ill or had mental health problems, that they wanted me to commit suicide.”

He continued, “They killed my character.

Despite her anger towards the network, Barr voiced her support for Goodman, who portrayed her husband, Dan, and Metcalf, who played the sister Laurie.

“I wish ABC had not thrown out the world’s biggest actors with me – Laurie and John,” wrote through X in 2018. “I’m so ill over this – they’ll never have better character actors on their network.”

Weekly US has reached out to ABC for comments.