Roseanne Barr Called Herself A ‘Hate Magnet’

Roseanne Barr recently said in an emotional podcast interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach that she was a “hate magnet,” and feels remorse after a racist tweet canceled the revival of her show Roseanne.

“I said to God, ‘I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know I’ve done wrong. I’m going to accept what the consequences are,’ and I do, and I have,’” she said. “But they don’t ever stop. They don’t accept my apology, or explanation. And I’ve made myself a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it’s just horrible. It’s horrible.”

As far as the the tweet, she said she “didn’t mean what they think I meant.”

“But I have to face that it hurt people,” she added. “When you hurt people even unwillingly there’s no excuse. I don’t want to run off and blather on with excuses. But I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there’s no excuse for that ignorance.”

“I’ve lost everything,” she said on the podcast. “And I regretted it before I lost everything.”