Tom Arnold Says Roseanne Wanted Her Show Canceled

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Did Roseanne Barr purposely seek to cancel her own show? Apparently, her ex-husband Tom Arnold seems to think so.

“It had to happen,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “And I am going to tell you the truth, she wanted it to happen, if you saw how her tweets escalated this weekend. If it hadn’t happened [Tuesday], this season would have been so awful for everyone every day because she would have felt like she was [being] taken advantage [of], just like when I left the show.”

Tom wrote for the original Roseanne starting in 1988, then married the star in 1990. They divorced four years later, and he was fired from the show.

“When I read her social media in the very beginning, I saw how she was so into the conspiracy stuff with Donald Trump and saw how far gone she was,” he told Anderson Cooper on CNN. “How crazy that was I just knew that this would not end well.”