Roseanne Barr’s severe mental problems include a split personality disorder, and behavior that led to a stint in a psycho ward — and pals had warned The National ENQUIRER that she was a walking time bomb set to destroy her TV comeback! The quirky comic returned to air to massive ratings — and a congratulatory phone call from President Donald Trump — on March 27 with a CBS revival of her original show. The show brought back both her beloved old cast members and Roseanne’s old wacky ways…
Roseanne Barr’s Battles With Mental Illness
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But an insider warned, “People are worried about Roseanne. Her first sitcom, which ran from 1988 to 1997, imploded as a result of her mental health problems — and she’s having a tough time this go-round, too. She’s been stressing over this reboot, and that alone could send her over the brink again.”
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In an explosive admission, Roseanne revealed the terrible truth about the tormented childhood she claims left her with seven clashing personalities named Baby, Cindy, Susan, Joey, Heather, Somebody and Nobody — and forced her into a mental hospital for nearly nine terrifying months.
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Today she insists she’s finally gotten her split personalities under control, saying: “I’ve learned how to get them to listen to each other now … to get them to know they’re on the same team, that we occupy the same body.”
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Separating her mind into multiple personalities was the way she coped with the horrific abuse she claims to have suffered from her parents, Jerome and Helen Barr. Growing up in a Jewish family in Mormon Utah, “I always knew I was different. I felt isolated and was a real quiet kid. I had about two friends.”
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Her home life was a horror movie. Roseanne remembers her mom standing over her crib — when she was just two — “holding a pillow over my face, pushing me down. Then my mother took the pillow away and said, ‘I must have hurt you, honey. I was just playing.’”
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As she grew older, her mom’s abuse became more emotional, but her dad was a sexual monster, who “molested me until I left home at age 17,” she says. “He constantly put his hands all over me. He forced me to sit on his lap, to cuddle with him, to play with his penis in the bathtub.
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“Dad would come in while I was showering and fling back the curtain and look at me,” she said. Both parents vehemently denied Roseanne’s charges — and Jerome went to his grave in 2001 insisting that she was lying through her teeth. But Roseanne says therapy helped her remember the horrors.
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The actress claims she was a quiet straight-A student until age 17, when she was hit by a car and dragged 30 feet while crossing the street. She was in a coma for four days and “died, saw a white light and went to another place,” she said.
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When she came to, she says she changed from a goody-goody to a “bad girl” who drank and stole the family car. Her parents checked her into the psycho ward in the Utah State Hospital in Provo, where she stayed for nearly nine months.
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While there, the TV legend insists she “was afraid to get close to anyone. I was afraid of losing control and saying bad things. I thought I was an eccentric, a writer, an artist.” Still, during her stay, she says, “I started to heal.”
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Roseanne went on to marry and divorce three times, have five kids and become rich and notorious for her goofy, outrageous antics. Although Roseanne claims she has her multiple personality disorder under control, insiders fear her fragile mental state will explode and wreck her comeback.
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In the revived show, she was playing a mouthy older version of blue collar housewife Roseanne Conner, now a rabid Trump supporter. “Everyone on her show, from cast to crew, is walking on pins and needles around her!” says the insider.
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“They’re bracing for an epic meltdown,” added the on-set source. And, tragically enough, the trainwreck came just weeks after the "Roseanne" reboot ended its first run — with staffers stunned as Roseanne ranted in a shockingly racist Twitter attack that left producers and cast members furious!
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Executives at ABC rushed to cancel "Roseanne," saying that Roseanne's comparison of Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape was "repugnant and inconsistent with our values." Sara Gilbert also blasted her longtime co-star as "abhorrent," while her wife Linda Perry wrote: "I am sick to my stomach" — as Roseanne once again ended her career in controversy!
But an insider warned, “People are worried about Roseanne. Her first sitcom, which ran from 1988 to 1997, imploded as a result of her mental health problems — and she’s having a tough time this go-round, too. She’s been stressing over this reboot, and that alone could send her over the brink again.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
In an explosive admission, Roseanne revealed the terrible truth about the tormented childhood she claims left her with seven clashing personalities named Baby, Cindy, Susan, Joey, Heather, Somebody and Nobody — and forced her into a mental hospital for nearly nine terrifying months.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Today she insists she’s finally gotten her split personalities under control, saying: “I’ve learned how to get them to listen to each other now … to get them to know they’re on the same team, that we occupy the same body.”
Photo credit: BACKGRID
Separating her mind into multiple personalities was the way she coped with the horrific abuse she claims to have suffered from her parents, Jerome and Helen Barr. Growing up in a Jewish family in Mormon Utah, “I always knew I was different. I felt isolated and was a real quiet kid. I had about two friends.”
Photo credit: BACKGRID
Her home life was a horror movie. Roseanne remembers her mom standing over her crib — when she was just two — “holding a pillow over my face, pushing me down. Then my mother took the pillow away and said, ‘I must have hurt you, honey. I was just playing.’”
Photo credit: Getty Images
As she grew older, her mom’s abuse became more emotional, but her dad was a sexual monster, who “molested me until I left home at age 17,” she says. “He constantly put his hands all over me. He forced me to sit on his lap, to cuddle with him, to play with his penis in the bathtub.
Photo credit: BACKGRID
“Dad would come in while I was showering and fling back the curtain and look at me,” she said. Both parents vehemently denied Roseanne’s charges — and Jerome went to his grave in 2001 insisting that she was lying through her teeth. But Roseanne says therapy helped her remember the horrors.
Photo credit: BACKGRID
The actress claims she was a quiet straight-A student until age 17, when she was hit by a car and dragged 30 feet while crossing the street. She was in a coma for four days and “died, saw a white light and went to another place,” she said.
Photo credit: BACKGRID
When she came to, she says she changed from a goody-goody to a “bad girl” who drank and stole the family car. Her parents checked her into the psycho ward in the Utah State Hospital in Provo, where she stayed for nearly nine months.
Photo credit: BACKGRID
While there, the TV legend insists she “was afraid to get close to anyone. I was afraid of losing control and saying bad things. I thought I was an eccentric, a writer, an artist.” Still, during her stay, she says, “I started to heal.”
Photo credit: BACKGRID
Roseanne went on to marry and divorce three times, have five kids and become rich and notorious for her goofy, outrageous antics. Although Roseanne claims she has her multiple personality disorder under control, insiders fear her fragile mental state will explode and wreck her comeback.
Photo credit: BACKGRID
In the revived show, she was playing a mouthy older version of blue collar housewife Roseanne Conner, now a rabid Trump supporter. “Everyone on her show, from cast to crew, is walking on pins and needles around her!” says the insider.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“They’re bracing for an epic meltdown,” added the on-set source. And, tragically enough, the trainwreck came just weeks after the "Roseanne" reboot ended its first run — with staffers stunned as Roseanne ranted in a shockingly racist Twitter attack that left producers and cast members furious!
Executives at ABC rushed to cancel "Roseanne," saying that Roseanne's comparison of Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape was "repugnant and inconsistent with our values." Sara Gilbert also blasted her longtime co-star as "abhorrent," while her wife Linda Perry wrote: "I am sick to my stomach" — as Roseanne once again ended her career in controversy!
