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Roseanne Barr was back on Twitter hours after her racist tweet about former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett led to the cancellation of her hit ABC show “Roseanne.”
On Tuesday night, Barr retweeted followers who called ABC’s decision to ax her show hypocritical, and replied that she thought that the target of her tweet was “Saudi” and didn’t realize the racist implications of her post. At one point, she defended herself by tweeting: “yes, I mistakenly thought (Jarrett) was white.”
“Don’t feel sorry for me, guys!!” she wrote in a separate post. “I just want to apologize to the hundreds of people, and wonderful writers (all liberal) and talented actors who lost their jobs on my show due to my stupid tweet.”
She even offered an explanation as to what caused her to tweet: “It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far.”
Sanofi, which makes Ambien, tweeted Wednesday: “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”
Judge denies Meek Mill request for new trial, judge removal
A judge in Philadelphia has denied Meek Mill’s request for a new trial and the removal of a judge from the case.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month ordered Mill’s release from prison, where he was serving a two- to four-year sentence on a probation violation related to a decade-old gun and drug conviction.
Mill’s lawyers want Judge Genece Brinkley removed from his case. They allege she’s been waging a vendetta.