JOHN GOODMAN TALKS ABOUT SPINOFF

Dan Conner had a heart attack in the second-to-last season cliffhanger of “Roseanne.” He survived. Until he didn’t.

John Goodman’s character, it was revealed by Roseanne in the last season’s closing minutes in 1997, had really died at his daughter’s wedding. The audience spent 24 episodes believing he pulled through. Roseanne’s narration explained she constructed a fantasy to cope.

It was one of the most divisive moments in recent television history when the show ended, but in this year’s shortlived revival, Dan was very much alive after the show opened with a self-aware joke about the controversy.

Now, following Roseanne Barr’s racist Twitter rant in May that prompted ABC to cancel the revival midseason, and spin off the series in “The Conners,” Goodman has said how the show will address the matriarch’s absence.

She’s dead, Goodman explained.

And this death might finally stick.

“I guess he’ll be mopey and sad because his wife’s dead,” Goodman said of his blue-collar hero character Dan, in an interview with the Sunday Times.

In May, Barr made references to President Barack Obama’s former adviser Valerie Jarrett and apes. Jarrett is black.

ABC canceled her show a day later, and the network’s president, Channing Dungey, called her tweet “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”

Barr later apologized and blamed Ambien for her tweets. Her representative did not return a request for comment.