{"id":58849,"date":"2025-07-12T05:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58849\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:58:14","slug":"john-goodman-reveals-he-hasnt-spoken-to-roseanne-star-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58849\/","title":{"rendered":"John Goodman reveals he hasn&#8217;t spoken to &#8216;Roseanne&#8217; star in years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">John Goodman opened up about his relationship with former co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/roseanne-barr-lives-out-her-texas-dreams-despite-tractor-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Roseanne Barr, <\/a>years after her firing from the revival of their hit show, &#8220;Roseanne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">During a recent interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/john-goodman-interview-career-1236309532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Reporter,<\/a> the 73-year-old actor revealed he and the 72-year-old actress &#8220;haven\u2019t talked for about seven or eight years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d rather doubt if she wants to talk to me,&#8221; Goodman shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/john-goodman-roseanne-barr.jpg\" alt=\"john goodman and roseanne barr side by side photos\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>John Goodman revealed he hasn&#8217;t spoken to Roseanne Barr in &#8220;seven or eight years.&#8221; (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Goodman and Barr played on-screen spouses Dan and Roseanne Conner in the hit sitcom &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; for nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997. In 2018, the two reunited for a revived 10th season of &#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; along with other main cast members from the show&#8217;s original run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/roseanne-barr-claims-hollywood-has-made-itself-irrelevant-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>ROSEANNE BARR CLAIMS &#8216;HOLLYWOOD HAS MADE ITSELF IRRELEVANT&#8217; TO AMERICANS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nine-episode season debuted on ABC in March 2018, and the show was quickly renewed for an 11th season after the success of its premiere episode. However, Barr was fired from &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; in May 2018 after she tweeted a racist remark about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/roseanne-barr-disputes-racist-claims-im-not-that-person\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Valerie Jarrett<\/a>, a former advisor to former President Obama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though Barr issued several apologies for her remarks, the planned 11th season of &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; was also canceled. In June 2018, ABC announced it would proceed with the revival, which was retitled &#8220;The Conners.&#8221; The show returned in October of that year and featured every original cast member except Barr, whose character&#8217;s disappearance was explained by an off-screen death.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/roseanne-4.jpg\" alt=\"john goodman and roseanne barr in roseanne\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The two played on-screen spouses in the hit sitcom &#8220;Roseanne.&#8221; (ABC)<\/p>\n<p>While speaking with THR, Goodman reflected on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/john-goodman-feels-terrible-roseanne-barr-after-controversy-shes-her-own-person\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">close relationship<\/a> he shared with Barr during the show&#8217;s original run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hit it off from jump street,&#8221; Goodman recalled. &#8220;She made me laugh, and I made her laugh, and, wow, it was so much fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019d get so many viewers for the show back then \u2014 20, 30 million people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Things are so different now, but it was a special time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/roseanne-8.jpg\" alt=\"john goodman and roseanne barr in an episode of 'roseanne' in 2017\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The two reunited for the &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; revival in 2018.\u00a0 (American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with Fox News Digital last month, Barr revealed she doesn&#8217;t speak to any of her former &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; co-stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not friends with none of them,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/roseanne-barr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the comedian <\/a>said. &#8220;They&#8217;re all in the past. I have pleasant memories of what fun we had, wish them all the best. And, no, we don&#8217;t talk. I&#8217;ve moved on from that horrendous ending and chapter of my life, but, you know, I don&#8217;t hold any bitterness or nothing to them, but my God, what fun we had on that show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I was sorry they f&#8212;ed it all up with their greed and ridiculous stupidity to f&#8212; all that up. F&#8212; them, but I wish them well,&#8221; Barr added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Conners.jpg\" alt=\"The Conners cast\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>After Barr&#8217;s firing, the main members of the original cast continued with the revival, &#8220;The Conners.&#8221; (Robert Trachtenberg\/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/the-conners-star-john-goodman-admits-old-resistant-change-struggles-ending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;The Conners&#8221; <\/a>ran for seven seasons and aired its final episode in April. During his interview with THR, Goodman, who is starring on the HBO sitcom &#8220;The Righteous Gemstones,&#8221; shared his thoughts on saying goodbye to the character of Dan Conner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t think [the \u2018Roseanne\u2019 reboot] was going to go beyond the initial five or six episodes. I thought it\u2019d be a one-off thing, and then we got picked up, and Roseanne got fired,&#8221; Goodman said. &#8220;I thought that was it, and as soon as they dismissed the cast, I picked up \u2018Righteous Gemstones.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we got to do the show again as \u2018The Conners.\u2019 I didn\u2019t know how long it would last, but I sure enjoyed it while I was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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