In an emotional interview, Roseanne Barr said she definitely feels remorse for the racist tweet that prompted ABC to cancel the revival of "Roseanne."
"I said to God, 'I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know I've done wrong. I'm going to accept what the consequences are,' and I do, and I have,'" Barr said in an interview with longtime friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
"But they don't ever stop. They don't accept my apology or explanation. And I've made myself a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it's just horrible. It's horrible."
On Sunday, Boteach published an edited transcript of the podcast interview Barr recorded as well as a recording of their conversation. In the interview, Barr claims she "never would have wittingly called any black person a monkey."
Barr spoke through tears for much of the interview, her first since the cancellation of her show "Roseanne." She regretted the fact that some people misconstrued her explanation, in which she blamed the sleep aid drug Ambien for a tweet that likened former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a person created by the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes."
Barr said that she "didn't mean what they think I meant."
"But I have to face that it hurt people," Barr said. "When you hurt people even unwillingly there's no excuse. I don't want to run off and blather on with excuses. But I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there's no excuse for that ignorance."
On Thursday, ABC announced it will air a 10-episode Conner family sitcom, without Barr, this fall. In a statement issued by the show's producer, Barr said she agreed to the settlement to save the jobs of 200 cast and crew members.
ABC swiftly axed "Roseanne" last month after Barr's tweet. ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said it was "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values."
Though "Roseanne" prompted outrage for jokes about minority characters and an episode some called Islamophobic, it was watched by an enormous television audience. The first episode in March was seen by more than 25 million people.
"I've lost everything," Barr said on the podcast. "And I regretted it before I lost everything."
