“Oh John Goodman, where art thou?” may not be a question on Roseanne Barr’s mind.
In fact, the Roseanne patriarch said he hasn’t spoken to his former onscreen wife since she was fired from the sitcom’s revival in 2018.
“I’d rather doubt if she wants to talk to me,” Goodman—who starred alongside Barr on her eponymous sitcom from 1988 to 1997, and again for its one-season reboot—told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published July 9. “We haven’t talked for about seven or eight years.”
Roseanne was initially renewed for an 11th season. However, amid its success, Barr compared President Barack Obama’s then-advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape in a Twitter (now known as X) post, leading ABC to retract the series’ renewal.
“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,” then-President of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey said in a statement at the time, “and we have decided to cancel her show.”
