Roseanne says tweet ‘cost me everything’

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Roseanne Barr apologized on Thursday for her controversial Twitter comment that caused the cancellation of her US comedy show Roseanne, but insisted she had been misunderstood and said the mistake “cost me everything.” Barr said in an hour-long television interview, her first since comparing a black former Obama administration official to an ape, that her May tweet was political in nature, not racist. “I was so sad that people thought it was racist,” Barr told Fox News host Sean Hannity. She said the tweet referencing former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett — “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj” — was a bid to seek accountability for the 2015 international agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program. She did not clarify what she believed was Jarrett’s involvement in the agreement. “I made a mistake obviously. It cost me everything, my life’s work. And I paid the price for it. But no, I did not know she (Jarrett) was black,” she said. Jarrett was born in Iran to parents of European and African-American descent. She said on Wednesday she did not intend to watch Barr’s interview.— Reuters