00:00John Goodman has finally broken his silence about ABC's decision to cancel Roseanne.
00:05Months after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett,
00:10which caused the network to pull the plug on her hit rebooted sitcom after just one season.
00:15The actress's TV husband is sharing his thoughts on the scandal in a new interview.
00:19Speaking with the UK Times for a profile published on Sunday,
00:23Goodman admitted that Barr's offensive tweet left him brokenhearted. He explained,
00:30However, despite her sense-deleted tweet, Goodman insisted that Barr isn't racist.
00:40He also implied that he was not supportive of ABC's swift decision to cancel the show, saying,
00:50When asked about how ABC will handle Barr's absence as Roseanne Conner in the network's upcoming spinoff series,
00:56The Conners, Goodman suggested that her TV alter ego could be killed off. He continued,
01:02It's an unknown. Back in late July, Barr attempted to explain her tweet in a bizarre YouTube video,
01:07in which she said this,
01:08I thought the bitch was white!
01:11The Roseanne spinoff, The Conners, premieres on ABC on October 16th at 8 p.m.
01:16For more on this story, head to THR.com. Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,
01:21I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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