Roseanne Barr Cries During Apology For Racist Tweet

Roseanne Barr had an interview with conservative personality Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and gave a crying apology for the racist tweet that resulted in her show Roseanne getting cancelled. Here are highlights, via TVLine:

On people misinterpreting the tweet: “It’s really hard to say this but, I didn’t mean what they think I meant, and that’s what’s so painful. But I have to face that it hurt people. When you hurt people, even unwillingly, there’s no excuse.”

On her apology: “I don’t want to run off and blather on with excuses. I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there’s no excuse for that ignorance… I didn’t mean it the way they’re saying I meant it… I’m a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff, but I’m not stupid, for God’s sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person… a monkey. I just wouldn’t do that. I didn’t do that. And people think that I did that and it just kills me.”