REAL GUNN NUT
Roseanne cries ‘Galaxy’ guy treated better
Roseanne Barr is still looking for defenders.
The 65-year-old actress, who was canned from her ABC sitcom after sending a racist tweet about former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, isn’t pleased to see “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” star James Gunn’s peers rally around him in the aftermath of his firing. Gunn came under fire after his decade-old tweets joking about rape and pedophilia surfaced.
“I’m disgusted to read all of the support for James Gunn’s pedophile jokes — as the same people supported blacklisting me for a joke they didn’t even understand,” the controversial TV star tweeted Tuesday.
On a podcast Monday, Barr (inset) claimed that Gunn had defended ABC’s decision to fire her.
“He was one of the people that said ABC was right to fire me over my racist tweet,” she told Rabbi Schmuley. “He was one of them, but then it came back around, because what goes around comes around.”
The Disney director, meanwhile, has received mass support from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actors, including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista, after his firing.
“Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor,” he said in a statement last week. “In the past, I have apologized for humor of mine that hurt people. I truly felt sorry and meant every word of my apologies.”
In her most recent explanation for calling Jarrett the baby of the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes” was that she thought the former Obama aide was white.
“I thought the b---h was white. God damn it,” Barr screamed in an erratic video last week. “I thought the b---h was white. F--k.”
ABC announced Tuesday that “The Conners,” the “Roseanne” spinoff without Barr, will debut at 8 p.m. on Oct. 16. Barr, meanwhile, is scheduled to appear on Fox News Thursday with Sean Hannity, her first TV interview since being fired.
Gunn’s reps did not respond to a request for comment with regards to Barr’s claims.