'I've already been offered so many things': Roseanne claims she's fielding loads of new projects after her show was canceled following her racist tweet
- Roseanne Barr revealed she's fielding a myriad of new project offers
- She was fired just five weeks ago from her ABC sitcom following her racist tweet
- She says she may return to TV on Stand Up NY's Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's podcast published Sunday
- ABC announced the sitcom will continue without her as The Connors
- Speaking of spin-off, she said: 'That was my life, my life’s work. It hurt me greatly'
- Last week she revealed she left the TV show with no payout, despite earning $250,000 an episode
Despite being booted out from her eponymous show after her racist rant, Roseanne Barr says she's fielding a myriad of new project offers.
Speaking to Stand Up NY's Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Podcast, she says she's doing just fine following her very public firing and is juggling a number of TV opportunities.
'Inside every bad thing is a good thing waiting to happen and I feel very excited because I’ve already been offered so many things,' the 65-year-old comedian said in the interview released Sunday.
'I almost already accepted one really good offer to go back on TV and I might do it. But we'll see,' she added.
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Roseanne Barr says she's already fielding a myriad of project offers, just five weeks after she was fired and her sitcom reboot was cancelled. Pictured above in April on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Upon hearing that the show will continue without her she said 'That hurt me greatly', pictured at her Utah home in June days after the scandal which stemmed from her racist tweets about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
She said it was 'penance' that her show reboot was canceled without her receiving a payout
Barr opened up to Shmuley, author of Lust for Love, last week as well saying she left ABC without a payout as 'penance' for her remarks.
'I didn't ask to be paid off, I asked for nothing. I just step away for that because that is penance. I put a lot of thought into it,' she said in the different podcast.
However in Sunday's episode she revealed she's hurt that ABC will continue the Connor family sitcom in a spin-off without her.
Speaking on the show's future she said: 'That hurt me greatly. That was my life, my life’s work. It hurt me greatly.'
'That didn’t hurt me as bad as every story came from my own life and they’ll continue those stories and they won’t necessarily be the way I intended when I laid them out. To change my work too is pretty painful,' she added.
Five weeks after she was fired she says she's doing well and may re-enter the TV world
The show will continue as The Connors, but without her character. She also relinquished any creative or financial participation in the new spin-off
Shmuley shared his interview on Twitter where the two discussed Jewish values and touch on her tweet scandal that led to the sitcom's cancellation
ABC said that the new series, with 'The Conners' as its working title, will star John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson and Michael Fishman.
How Barr's character, the family matriarch, will be erased from their lives was left unexplained for now by ABC.
'After a sudden turn of events, the Conners are forced to face the daily struggles of life in Lanford in a way they never have before,' the network said in its announcement, referring to the fictional Illinois town where the family lives.
The spin-off will continue to portray contemporary issues that are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago,' ABC said, a nod to the unusual portrayal of a blue-collar family on TV.
ABC ordered 10 episodes of the spin-off after Barr relinquished any creative or financial participation in it, which the network had said was a condition of such a series.
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In May, Barr sparked universal outrage with this tweet about Jarrett
She bashed civic leader Valerie Jarrett on Twitter saying she looks like 'Muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby'
Barr's famed TV career came to a sudden halt in May, shortly after her sitcom was rebooted, following a racist tweet where she said Obama's former adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like 'Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby.'
After she posted the since-deleted tweet, she was fired on May 29.
ABC shared a statement shortly after her firing.
'Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,' ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey said.
Walt Disney, ABC's parent company,chief Bob Iger added: 'There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing' on her firing.
In last week's podcast she opened up about the tweet in question, claiming that it was misinterpreted.
'It’s really hard to say this, but I didn’t mean what they think I meant. 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,' she said.
'I definitely feel remorse… I’m a lot of things, I’m a loud mouth and all that stuff, but I’m not stupid, for God’s sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person…a monkey,' she added.
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 who were idled when 'Roseanne' was canceled last month.
