Updated at 11:40 a.m. ET
Actress Roseanne Barr says she was “Ambien tweeting” at 2 in the morning when she posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser in the Obama White House, that caused ABC to cancel her TV show.
The reboot of Barr’s eponymous TV show was canceled Tuesday after one season. ABC Entertainment’s president announced the network was pulling the plug after Barr tweeted that Jarrett, who now serves on several corporate boards and is a senior fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, is the product of the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.”
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