Barr hits back at

– Roseanne Barr’s character was killed off on The Conners, the spin-off TV show created after she was fired for a racist tweet – and she is not pleased.

“I AIN’T DEAD BITCHES !!!! ” the actress, known for her frankness, wrote on Twitter after the premiere of the new sitcom on ABC.

Barr sparked controversy in late May when she took aim at Valerie Jarrett, a black former advisor to ex-president Barack Obama, by calling her an “ape”, The 65-year-old actress apologised but it was too late.

ABC swiftly cancelled the reboot of Roseanne, a sitcom about a working-class family that has returned to broadcast television after more than two decades off the air, scoring huge ratings and generally positive reviews.

Less than a month later the show was revived, but without its controversial star and creator.

When The Conners premiered on Tuesday, with most of the original cast save Barr, it was revealed that Roseanne Conner died of an opioid overdose – the character had been taking painkillers for a knee injury.

In a lengthy statement issued by Barr and her longtime friend Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, she lamented the way her character died, saying it “lent an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show”. –

New York