In a bizarre video posted over the weekend,Roseanne Barrsaid she identifies as “queer.”
The oustedRoseanneactress, 66, posted a video — titled “The word ‘f–’ is h8ful-I put the Q in LGBTQ” — to her YouTube channel on Easter Sunday, criticizing the use of a gay slur and seemingly claiming to be queer herself.
“The word f– is a really hateful word, isn’t it?” Barr began in the video, which was removed on Monday.
“Especially when it’s like one gay calling another gay guy that. Have you ever been in the middle of one of them hate marriages? It’s like, ‘Wait a minute, we’re not supposed to say that word. How come you’re saying that word? What? Oh, I just can’t say the word. Well, I can when I’m in the house but I can’t say it outside of the house. Okay, I get your rules.’ But it is a hateful word and you should get rid of it. Get rid of it being spoken,” said Barr.
“All that LGBTQ stuff, okay let me just be real. I put the Q in LGBTQ, okay? Because I am queer as two motherf——. I’m queer. I’m alien,” she continued.
“I don’t belong here with all these people. They make no sense. They are very queer. And that makes me a queer, I guess,” she concluded. “I did put the Q in it. Bye.”
Barr’s rep did not return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Barr has been married to three men:Bill Pentland,Tom ArnoldandBen Thomas.
The past year has been a tumultuous time for Barr, whoseRoseannerevivalwas canceled after she wrote and then deleteda racist postin May aboutBarack Obama‘s former adviserValerie Jarrett.
ABC quicklydropped the revival ofRoseanne, which was the no. 1 scripted series of the season. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” Channing Dungey, then president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement.
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During the fallout, Barr claimed that shewas using Ambienthatcaused her to tweetand that shedid not know that Jarrett is black.
Her character was killed off for theRoseannespin-offThe Connors,and she tweeted “I’m not dead, bitch” during the premiere,which delivered 10.5 million viewers — nearly 8 million less than whenRoseannereturned on ABC the previous March.
“When you get fired you get real suicidal. But I’d never kill myself because that would make too many f—ing people happy. And I’m not about making people happy,” she said, according to avideo that the Laugh Factory posted on Vimeo.
“Dear ABC. When you asked me back to once again bail out your s—, f—ing low-rated network, I did so with the same vigor I’ve always rocked and I delivered you the highest ratings that you had in 10 f—ing years,” Barr said. “At the first sign of controversy, you killed me off with a drug overdose. But you know what, Iain’t dead, bitches.”
ABC did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
