Roseanne Barr Recalls Feeling Betrayed When John Goodman Didn’t ‘Want to Be’ on the Sitcom ‘Anymore’

Roseanne Barr is reflecting on some history with her former Roseanne costar John Goodman. 

During an episode of The Roseanne Barr Podcast that aired earlier this month, the actress, 73, sat down with podcaster Michael Malice and recalled how she found out that Goodman, 73, no longer wanted to be part of the sitcom, which originally ran for 9 seasons from 1988 to 1997.

“I don’t think I heard it from his agent, I think I heard it from the producers of the show, actually, that he doesn’t want to be on the show anymore,” she shared. “I think they said he’ll do six of the 24 or something like that.”

Malice asked the comedian if she felt “betrayed,” to which she confirmed, “Yeah, but, you know, you didn’t want to bring that to the show.”

“I just separated the show from every personal thing. Always, I had to,” she continued. “None of them supported me in any of the s**t I went through the first show, and I just had to sweep it aside and do the show.”

“He’s not easy to understand,” Barr added of Goodman. “He never was. He’s his own whatever.”

The Golden Globe Award winner further explained that she didn’t let her emotions seep into her job.

“I kind of learned to not speak to anybody on the set when we were filming in a one-to-one personal thing. I always was the character,” she admitted. “When we went to work, I was always the character. Even when I’d break to go get a cup of coffee, I was still the character.”

Goodman and Barr portrayed husband-and-wife duo Dan and Roseanne Conner on the hit show. However the Raising Arizona actor appeared in only 12 of the 24 episodes in season 9. He returned for the revival (season 10) in 2018.

Though the show was rebooted in 2018, it was canceled following Barr’s problematic statements about former Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett  and famously rebranded into The Conners spinoff.