Posted on Oct 21, 2026 UTC

John Goodman and Roseanne Barr were longtime costars on both Roseanne and the spin-off series The Conners , where the pair played husband and wife duo Dan and Roseanne Conner.

But things fell apart between them sometime after Barr was removed from The Conners for her racist social media post about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in 2018.

After her very public remarks, Barr was promptly fired from the series...

...and literally killed off of the show.

At the time, Goodman said of his former costar, "I'll put it this way, I was surprised at the response [from the network]. And that's probably all I should say about it." He also said of Barr, "I know for a fact that she's not a racist."

However, in a more recent interview from just last year, though, Goodman revisited his old friendship with Barr.…