Roseanne Barr is still looking for some defenders.
The 65-year-old actress, who was fired from her ABC sitcom after a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, the former senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, compared her own situation to that of James Gunn, who was axed from "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" for a series of decade-old tweets about rape and pedophilia.
"I'm disgusted to read all of the support for James Gunn's pedophile jokes _ as the same people supported blacklisting me for a joke they didn't even understand," the controversial TV star tweeted Tuesday.
In her most recent explanation for calling Jarrett the baby of the "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes" was that she thought the former Obama aide was white.
"I thought the b _ -h was white. God damn it," Barr screamed in an erratic video last week. "I thought the b _ -h was white. F _ k."
On a podcast Monday, Barr claimed that Gunn had defended ABC's decision to fire her.
"He was one of the people that said ABC was right to fire me over my racist tweet," she told Rabbi Schmuley. "He was one of them, but then it came back around, because what goes around comes around."
The Disney director, meanwhile, has received mass support from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" actors, including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista, after his firing.
"Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I've developed as a person, so has my work and my humor. It's not to say I'm better, but I am very, very different than I was a few years ago; today I try to root my work in love and connection and less in anger. My days saying something just because it's shocking and trying to get a reaction are over. In the past, I have apologized for humor of mine that hurt people. I truly felt sorry and meant every word of my apologies," he said in a statement last week.
"For the record, when I made these shocking jokes, I wasn't living them out. I know this is a weird statement to make, and seems obvious, but, still, here I am, saying it. Anyway, that's the completely honest truth: I used to make a lot of offensive jokes. I don't anymore. I don't blame my past self for this, but I like myself more and feel like a more full human being and creator today. Love you to you all."
ABC announced Tuesday that "The Conners," the "Roseanne" spinoff without Barr, will debut at 8 p.m. on Oct. 16.
Barr, meanwhile, is scheduled to appear on Fox News Thursday for an interview with Sean Hannity, her first TV interview since her firing.
