Roseanne Barr is opening up about some alarming news she recently received from her doctor.
“This doctor says I have to go get my heart checked out because it’s damaged,” the former sitcom star said on the Thursday, March 26, episode of her “Roseanne Barr Podcast.”
She continued, “So now I’m so pissed because I’m like, I need a new doctor. He’s always sending me to other doctors to check me out, and I’m like, why do I have to go find something wrong when nothing’s wrong? And then get in shape so I can have surgery and die on the surgery table. I mean, well, it doesn’t make any sense.”
Barr, 73, said that she doesn’t want to undergo surgery and would rather live out her final days in hospice care.
Roseanne Barr is no stranger to controversy. Long before ABC chose to cancel the reboot of Roseanne in 2018, the actress made headlines for a variety of reasons including a controversial National Anthem performance and a run for president. Years after Barr’s Roseanne character was killed off The Conners, Us Weekly learned exclusive details about […]
“I would rather not get ready for any sort of surgery ever again in my life and just get a heart attack or a stroke and just be put into a home,” she said. “That is the life. Living in the hospice. … That’s all I want. They know you’re dying and they give you morphine.”
In June 2025, Barr opened up about moving to Texas, where she experienced a tractor injury while mowing her property.
“I’m doing a lot of mowing. I’ve got a really fantastic tractor out here and I’m mowing. The only problem is I don’t clear the trees quite as good as I should and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me in the head,” she told Fox News Digital.
“So, I’ve had several injuries recently. I had this one tree … I knocked it and a great big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor,” she continued. “So I knew I had to get out of there and it weighed about a hundred pounds.”
Roseanne Barr didn’t just play a mom on TV, the actress has expanded her own family off screen over the years. Barr started off doing stand-up comedy before becoming a household name for her lead role on Roseanne, which ran from 1988 to 1997. The series was briefly revived in 2018 but came to an […]
Barr became a household name following the success of ABC sitcom Roseanne, which originally aired from 1988 to 1997.
In 2018, ABC canceled a revival of Roseanne following the star’s racist tweet about former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett. The show was retooled around her fellow cast members, including John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf, as The Conners, which aired seven seasons from 2018 to 2025.
Barr told Fox News Digital in June 2025 that she is no longer in touch with her former costars.
“No, I’m not friends with none of them,” she said. “They’re all in the past. I have pleasant memories of what fun we had – wish them all the best. And no, we don’t talk. I’ve moved on from that horrendous ending and chapter of my life, but you know, I don’t hold any bitterness or nothing to them, but my God, what fun we had on that show.
“And I was sorry they f***ed it all up with their greed and ridiculous stupidity to f*** all that up. F*** them, but I wish them well,” she said at the time.
