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Roseanne tweets again, shifts her ire to co-stars

She also says she didn’t know Jarrett is black

- Andrea Mandell Contributi­ng: Sara M. Moniuszko

Roseanne Barr is now targeting her co-stars.

It admittedly is hard to keep up with Barr’s dizzying response to her selfmade catastroph­e Tuesday, when she fired off a racist tweet aimed at Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and then saw ABC cancel her top-rated reboot.

After her tweet, Barr swore off Twitter (again), then returned with a series of apologies: to Jarrett, her fans and the people who work for her. She said she does “not want (her tweet) defended-it was egregious Indefensib­le.” At one point, the comedian blamed “Ambien tweeting.”

Yet in the middle of the night on Wednesday, she began lashing out at co-stars who publicly spoke out against the tweet that ultimately cost all of them their jobs.

Michael Fishman, who played D.J. Conner on the show, released a lengthy statement Tuesday saying

Roseanne’s “cast, crew, writers and production staff strived for inclusiven­ess.” He added: “The words of one person do not exemplify the thinking of all involved.”

Barr hit back: “i created the platform for that inclusivit­y and you know it.ME. You throw me under the bus. nice!”

Sara Gilbert, who plays Darlene, called her TV mom’s tweet “abhorrent” and said Barr’s comments “do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show. I am disappoint­ed in her actions to say the least.”

Barr replied: “Wow! unreal.”

A Barr fan then called Gilbert “ungrateful, and very disloyal.”

Barr replied, “i feel bad for @POTUS -he goes thru this every single day.”

In a later tweet, Barr made an about-face, saying she forgives Gilbert. “I understand her position and why she said what she said. i forgive her. It just shocked me a bit, but I indeed (screwed) up.”

The Conner family feud makes it all the more unlikely Roseanne could manage a return to the air.

On Tuesday night, Barr began retweeting 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.”

i created the platform for that inclusivit­y and you know it.ME. You throw me under the bus. nice!

Roseanne Barr

Tweet on Wednesday taking aim at co-star Michael Fishman

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