Roseanne Barr has apologised for her offensive tweet that resulted in her ABC show being cancelled, saying it "cost me everything".
The actress appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Thursday for her first televised appearance since the controversy and insisted that she is not a racist.
In May, Barr took to Twitter to accuse Valetie Jarrett, a former adviser to president Barack Obama, of being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood while comparing her to an ape.
.@therealroseanne on her initial reaction to the blowback from her controversial tweet: "The first thing was shock that they were saying it was racial, when it's political." #Hannity pic.twitter.com/gGv06LsmLO
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2018
Speaking to Hannity, the 65-year-old comedian insisted that the tweet was not deliberately racist, but rather just poorly worded.
She said: ''I hope you'll try to understand me and accept my apologies for my part in this big misunderstanding.'
''It cost me everything. I wish I worded it better.''
During an hour-long interview, Hannity repeatedly urged Barr to apologise to Jarrett on air.
"Well I already have said I'm sorry for two months", Barr began.
She reluctantly addressed Jarret while looking into the camera, saying: "I’m so sorry that you thought I was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist, because it wasn’t. It was political. I’m sorry for the misunderstanding that caused, my ill-worded tweet.
"And I’m sorry that you feel harmed and hurt. I never meant that. And for that I apologize. I never meant to hurt anybody, or say anything negative about an entire race of people, which think 30 years of my work can attest to."
The weak apology was further undermined when Barr added: "Plus I'd tell her, she's got to get a new haircut. I mean seriously. She needs a good haircut."
Barr repeated her assertion that she did not know Jarrett was black when she tweeted that she was the "baby" of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet Of The Apes.
She repeatedly claimed the tweet had no racial overtones.
Reflecting on the backlash to her tweet online and ABC cancelling her revived sitcom, Barr said she was hurt by the reaction both as an "artist" and as a "citizen".
"'I am a creative genius, and this is not a good feeling for an artist to be treated this way, and it's not a good feeling for a citizen, either", she said.
The actress, who is an outspoken supporter of US President Donald Trump, said that the controversy hasn't led her to reevaluate her political position.
She said: ''I'm not a racist and the people who voted for Trump, they're not racist either, and Trump isn't a racist, sorry. We just have a different opinion.''
Watch the interview with Sean Hannity below.
In June, ABC announced a Roseanne spin-off that will not feature Barr.
The American network said that the 10-episode series, which has the working title The Conners, will include John Goodman (Dan), Laurie Metcalf (Jackie), Sara Gilbert (Darlene), Lecy Goranson (Becky) and Michael Fishman (D.J.).
It is due to air in autumn 2018 and will take over the slot vacated by the cancelled sitcom.
