John Goodman doesn’t think Roseanne Barr is racist

John Goodman was shocked at Roseanne Barr‘s tweets about Valerie Jarrett — in which she referred to the former Barack Obama adviser as a product of the Muslim brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes” — because he doesn’t believe his longtime co-star is racist.

Still, he was even more shocked when ABC axed the “Roseanne” reboot after her tirade.

“I was surprised. I’ll put it this way, I was surprised at the response, and that’s probably all I should say about it,” Goodman, 66, told The Times on Sunday. “I know, I know, for a fact that she’s not a racist.”

Barr, 65, previously denied that her tweets were racist, initially blaming them on Ambien, then saying that her comments about Jarrett were about the Iran deal and anti-Semitism and that she “thought the b—h was white.”

After ABC canceled the series, Barr scrambled back to Twitter to beg the higher-ups to change their minds, but the network claimed the firing came after alleged “multiple instances” of Barr’s misbehavior.

“I was brokenhearted [when the show got canceled], but I thought, ‘OK, it’s just show business, I’m going to let it go,’ ” Goodman said of his initial reaction at the May cancellation of the hit series. “But I went through a period, about a month, where I was very depressed. I’m a depressive anyway, so any excuse that I can get to lower myself, I will. But that had a great deal to do with it, more than I wanted to admit.”

The network later greenlit a spinoff of “Roseanne,” “The Conners,” which would keep all the cast and crew of the “Roseanne” reboot, save for the troubled titular star.

Goodman confirmed that Barr agreed to forgo all profits from the show in order for it to continue.

“She had to sign a paper saying that she relinquished all her rights to the show so that we could go on,” he said. “I sent her an email and thanked her for that. I did not hear anything back, but she was going through hell at the time. And she’s still going through hell.”

Goodman, who previously credited Barr with helping him recover from alcoholism, also hinted that she’d be killed off of the show, saying of his character, “I guess he’ll be mopey and sad because his wife’s dead.”

On the bright side, in real life, Barr announced this weekend that she has new doctors and is “doing better now,” though she didn’t specify what was ailing her previously.

Roseanne Barr explains her Valerie Jarrett tweet

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