Roseanne: "I made myself a magnet of hatred"

In a moving interview, Roseanne Barr said that she definitely felt remorse for the racist tweet that prompted ABC to cancel the resumption of "Roseanne".

Barr recorded a podcast interview with his longtime friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who published a revised transcript and recording of the conversation on Sunday. In the interview, Barr claims that she "would never knowingly call a black person to a monkey".

Barr spoke through tears for much of the interview, his first since the cancellation of "Roseanne". She also lamented that some people do not accept her explanation blaming the Ambien sleep medication for a tweet that likened former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a person created by the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet monkeys".

"I said to God," I am ready to accept all the consequences that this entails because I know that I have done wrong. I will accept what the consequences are, "and I do it, and I have it," Barr said. "But they never stop, they do not accept my excuses or my explanations, and I made myself a magnet of hatred, and as a Jew, it's just horrible." Is horrible. "

Barr said of her tweet that she "did not mean what they thought I meant."

"But I have to face that it hurts people," said Barr. "When you hurt people even unintentionally, there is no excuse – I do not want to run away with excuses, but I apologize to anyone who thought or said who felt offended and who thought that I wanted to say something that I did not want to say.It was my own ignorance, and there is no excuse for this ignorance. "

ABC announced Thursday that it will broadcast this fall a family sitcom of 10 episodes without Barr. In a statement issued by the show's producer, Barr said that she has accepted the regulations to save the jobs of 200 actors and crew members.

ABC quickly blocked "Roseanne" last month after Barr's tweet. ABC Entertainment's chairman, Channing Dungey, said it was "odious, repugnant and inconsistent with our values."

Although "Roseanne" provoked outrage for jokes about minority characters and an episode that some called Islamophobe, he was watched by a huge television audience. The first episode in March was seen by more than 25 million people.

"I lost everything," Barr said on the podcast. "And I regretted it before losing everything."