Tom Arnold says Roseanne 'wasn't racist' when he was with her
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tom Arnold, right, believes his ex-wife Roseanne Barr wanted the ABC sitcom canceled. (ABC/Reuters)
Tom Arnold isn’t a fan of his ex-wife Roseanne Barr, but he doesn’t think she’s always been racist.
“She wasn’t racist when I was with her,” Arnold, 59, said on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” on Tuesday.
However, the comedian and actor, who was married to Barr, 65, from 1990 to 1994, admits that his former flame isn’t the same woman she was when they were together.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“Look at her Twitter feed, look at how she is,” he said. “She couldn’t say one good thing about Obama. Something happened. But she wasn’t like that [before], though.”
He did have some nice things to say about his ex, recalling an incident when he was on “Roseanne” and Julia Louis-Dreyfus took his parking space.
“I didn’t know it was her car at the time. And then my ex-wife, Roseanne … took a Polaroid of John Goodman‘s naked ass and put that on Julia Louis’ car and then took soap and wrote ‘Julia Louis-Dreypuss’ on her car. If you know the whole story, the ‘Seinfeld’ people were being crappy, and God bless Roseanne.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Arnold also revealed that while he knew ABC canceled the “Roseanne” reboot in the wake of Barr’s racist rant against former Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, he didn’t realized she’d been killed off of “The Conners” spinoff.
“Wait, I hadn’t heard. Is that true? Oh my God,” he said at the news. “I don’t think they’re going to ask me back, either way you look at it.”
“I don’t know what to think,” he added. “I think this: Sara Gilbert is a jinx on every show she’s on this year, let me tell you that. I’m kidding!”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Arnold was referencing CBS‘ “The Talk,” on which Gilbert is a panelist. Julie Chen recently left her seat at the table on the talk show after her husband, CBS CEO and chairman Les Moonves, resigned from the network amid a slew of sexual misconduct allegations.
“The Talk” wasn’t the only daytime TV on which Arnold dished during his time on Cohen’s couch.
He also revealed what really happened in his fierce debate with Megyn Kelly about his alleged scuffle with Mark Burnett.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“After the commercial, she says, ‘They told me that NBC is going to cut to the U.N. because Donald Trump is going to be speaking. They’re going to cut in five minutes, so let’s light it up,’ ” Arnold recalled. “I don’t know if she meant to light it up like we lit it up, but me and Megyn Kelly, we lit it up. I loved it.”
This story originally appeared in the New York Post.