Actors Who Got Fired For Crossing The Line

Roseanne Barr has always been a controversial figure, but in May 2018, she crossed a line and couldn't take her words back. Barr's "Roseanne" reboot was canceled in response to Barr's racist tweets directed at Valerie Jarrett, a Black woman who is a former advisor to President Barack Obama. Barr apologized for the tweet, saying it was a distasteful joke, but the network responded when ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey announced, "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show."

Barr's talent agency, ICM Partners, followed suit, with a statement published in Variety: "What she wrote is antithetical to our core values, both as individuals and as an agency." The agency announced that it had severed ties with Barr immediately and that she had been informed of the separation. In August 2018, Dungey spoke with Deadline about the cancellation, saying, "This tweet crossed the line that cannot be crossed, but it was for us a sense of enough is enough and something had to be done."

Dungey told The Hollywood Reporter that "Roseanne" would continue after all — the cast was brought back, barring Barr, for "The Conners." "That was my one disappointment that day — thinking about the innocent people who were affected by the decision," Dungey said. "The fact that we're now able to move forward with 'The Conners' feels good." Sequel series "The Conners" follows Roseanne's remaining family after the matriarch's unexpected death.