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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has released his interview with Roseanne Barr, which was recorded the day after her sitcom was cancelled at ABC, following the comedian’s racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett.

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00:00I didn't mean what they think I meant, and that's what's so painful.

00:06Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has released his interview with Roseanne Barr, which was recorded the day

00:11after her sitcom was cancelled at ABC. The rebooted Roseanne was axed at the network after

00:15Barr posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama.

00:21Boteach posted the interview to his SoundCloud account on Sunday morning, along with a transcript

00:24of the conversation on his Facebook page.

00:30Barr said of her tweet, and that's what's so painful.

00:50Barr has succumbed to tears several times during the conversation, at one point saying,

01:00remorse, you have to follow it with recompense. In the week since her hit show was cancelled,

01:03Barr has been dropped from her agency ICM partners, received considerable backlash from Hollywood,

01:08reruns of her show were pulled from Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT, and ABC has green-lighted

01:14The Conners, a spin-off of Roseanne, without her attached. Many labeled Barr's tweet racist as she

01:19referred to Jarrett, an African-American woman, as if the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes

01:23had a baby.

01:24Through tears, Barr told Boteach,

01:25I'm a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff, but I'm not stupid for God's sake.

01:29I never would have wittingly called any black person a monkey. I just wouldn't do that. I didn't do that.

01:35Still crying, she continued,

01:36People think that I did that and it just kills me. I didn't do that. And if they do think that,

01:41I'm just so sorry that I was so unclear and stupid. I'm very sorry. I have loved ones who are

01:46African-Americans and I just can't stand it. I've made a huge error and I told ABC when they called me.

01:51Barr also noted her previous excuse for her tweet, which was that she was under the influence

01:54of Ambien when she made the comment.

01:56That's no excuse, but that is what was real, she told Boteach.

01:59Barr continued,

02:00I horribly regret it. Are you kidding? I lost everything and I regretted it before I lost everything.

02:06And I said to God, I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know

02:10I've done wrong. I'm going to accept what the consequences are and I do and I have,

02:15but they don't ever stop. They don't accept my apology or explanation and I've made myself

02:19a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it's just horrible. It's horrible.

02:23To read more on this story and to hear the full interview, head to THR.com.

02:26For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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