Roseanne Blames Ambien For Racist Tweets, Maker of Ambien Responds

The highly anticipated and widely popular “Roseanne” reboot was cancelled yesterday. ABC was quick to act, condemning a series of racist tweets made by Barr with reference to former Obama adviser, Valerie Jarrett.

While some, including President Donald Trump came to Barr’s defense, not everyone shared the same sentiment, including long time Roseanne cast member, Sara Gilbert.

Roseanne’s recent comments about Valerie Jarrett, and so much more, are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show. I am disappointed in her actions to say the least.

— sara gilbert (@THEsaragilbert) May 29, 2018

The actress is now apologizing for the remarks, but also claiming it was medication that lead to the racist tweets.

Just like when Hitler Ambien invaded Poland pic.twitter.com/J5idn1U3Hd

— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) May 30, 2018

Roseanne also tweeted:

“I think Joe Rogan is right about ambien, not giving excuses for what I did(tweeted) but I’ve done weird stuff while on ambien-cracked eggs on the wall at 2am etc.”

The tweet had roughly 3,000 likes and 495 retweets before she deleted it.

Today, a pharmaceutical company responsible for making the drug responded to Barr’s comments, stating that, “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”

People of all races, religions and nationalities work at Sanofi every day to improve the lives of people around the world. While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.

— Sanofi US (@SanofiUS) May 30, 2018