ABC acted decisively in canceling “Roseanne” earlier this week after its star and executive producer came under fire for a racist tweet, but Roseanne Barr said Thursday that she “begged” the network to go another way.
Barr wrote on Twitter that she asked Disney-ABC Television Group president Ben Sherwood to give her a chance to apologize for the tweet and find a way to survive the scandal without losing her show.
“I begged Ben Sherwood at ABC [to] let me apologize & make amends,” Barr wrote. “I begged them not to cancel the show. I told them I was willing to do anything & asked [for] help in making things right.