Roseanne claims she was losing control of her show ahead of career-ending tweet

It’s perhaps unsurprising that Roseanne Barr, the disgraced comedian who threw it all away for late-night, supposedly-Ambien-fueled racism on Twitter, would do herself no favors in a characteristically unhinged interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote her self-financed new series, Meemaw: A Modern Day Fable. The show follows the matriarch of a mixed-race family of doomsday preppers as she plans her granddaughter’s bat mitzvah.