Actress Roseanne Barr, who saw her sitcom, Roseanne cancelled indicated she wants to sue The Walt Disney Company following Gina Carano’s lawsuit.
Roseanne Barr speaking with attendees at the 2023 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Elon Musk, who is funding Carano’s lawsuit, shared Carano’s announcement that she’s suing The Walt Disney Company and stated, “Please let us know if you would like to join the lawsuit against Disney.”
Please let us know if you would like to join the lawsuit against Disney https://t.co/FnMxhUQvVA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2024
In response to this post, Roseanne Barr stated, “Hello.”
Hello. https://t.co/ftUkd3OHtq
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) February 6, 2024
Barr’s ABC sitcom, Roseanne, was cancelled back in May 2018 after she wrote a tweet comparing Valerie Jarret to the offspring of the Planet of the Apes and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Barr posted, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj”.
Roseanne Barr Twitter
Barr later apologized for the post writing, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.”
Roseanne Barr Twitter
The apology would not be a enough, as reported by The New York Times, ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey announced, “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
Jarrett for her part said during an MSNBC town hall, “We have to turn it into a teaching moment.”
She also shared, “Bob Iger, who’s the C.E.O. of Disney, called me before the announcement. He apologized. He said that he had zero tolerance for that sort of racist, bigoted comment, and he wanted me to know before he made it public that he was canceling the show.”
Bob Iger via New York Times Events YouTube
While Barr indicates she also wants to sue The Walt Disney Company, Musk shared Carano’s suit is likely just “one of many lawsuits against Disney.”
He added, “They have been blatantly racist, sexist & censorious for years, which means there is a vast treasure trove of emails/texts/slack/etc.”
I expect this to be one of many lawsuits against Disney.
They have been blatantly racist, sexist & censorious for years, which means there is a vast treasure trove of emails/texts/slack/etc.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2024
Musk also stated, “Disney has almost certainly broken the law thousands of times (no exaggeration).”
Disney has almost certainly broken the law thousands of times (no exaggeration)
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2024
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