exactly? sean: you didn t know. no. you could have knocked me overed with a feather.r. my boyfriend saw it. i go what? i thought she was middle eastern. sean: any comparison to compared to what? they lied about my tweet from day one. they said she used the word looks like. sean: you don t use politically correct terms. no. i m not going to. it s sickening. sean: now that abc has gotten rid of it. america is going to hear you tonight. what is the future for roseanne barr? abc now kick starting basically the roseanne barr show. i want to tell you this. i walked away from this show, the fact that i had a contract which protected me from if i got in trouble with tweets.
in, include them in my circle because family is not just about blood, it s about soul, yout know. sean: i still don t understand, did you adopt african-american children in your family? oh, no, i do. i have a dear friend whose son is my god son and they are african-american. man, it was hard, you know. he calls me right away. sean: what did he say? he said i love you know matter what you do. and i was like, man, i need to be understood here. ii never i mean, i just have to say this. if you think if people think, i will say it to them, if you think that at the height of my power and fame i would go black people look like, i mean, it s just, i mean, i m not stupid.
success, nine years as a top hit show and to come back in this environment where there s cable, hulu, netflix, everything else, you get this massive audience. tell the story when this allte went down with abc. which part? sean: they first called you, they asked you, first of all, to get rid of your twitter account. i said i m never going to stop defending israel and the jewish people, that s me. i was raised that way. that s how i learned. it s very important to me, it s central to my life. so they said okay. anyway, this whole, i did what i did and they called me. they said what possible excuse could you have for this unforgivable and egregious tweet. and i said i what do you mean
it has been overwhelming. it s just i just thank them. i tell them, if it wasn t for my fans, i wouldn t be walking around. it was just devastating. to be misunderstood is the worst thing. i want to sing that thing, oh, lord, please don t let me i have always wanted to sing. sean: i saw you sing the national anthem. shut up, that was not good. did you see my follow-up? ind did a follow-up, sean. sean: you grabbed your crotch and spit. that s what this stupid pitcher told me to do. it s like off a ship. i was trying to make him laugh. he said that would be so funny. so i did it. s and it wasn t funny. i learned a lesson, never take
him? sean: decaldid he call you? i m on my fourth one, this one is 16 years. sean: he caught you smoking. i wore rubber gloves and a hat and i go out in the alley.at sean: he didn t smell it. no, he didn t know and i lied. on top of all this other stuff. so he opens up the yahoo! and there i am. he goes, because he knew that i would kill him if he made me mad. sweetheart. sean: you lied. youto lied to me about smoki, didn t you. sean: what did you say?