Roseanne Apologizes to Valerie Jarrett on Hannity: ‘Sorry You Thought I Was Racist’, You Need ‘A New Haircut’

Roseanne Barr appeared on Sean Hannity‘s Fox News show Thursday night, in her first television appearance since a racist tweet torpedoed her career.

Barr addressed the tweet — in which she compared former Obama official Valerie Jarrett to an ape — defending herself against charges of racism.

Hannity eventually asked Barr to address people who may not have heard her previous apologies, issued on Twitter.

“I made a mistake, obviously,” Barr said. “It cost me everything. My life’s work. Everything. I made a mistake. And I paid the price for it.

She then suggested, as she has previously, that she didn’t know Jarrett was an African American: “No, I didn’t know — like a lot of Americans including a lot of people of all types, they didn’t know either.”

“Here’s what I have to say, she said, when pressed for an apology by Hannity, before offering a rambling explanation about “globalism,” claiming her tweet was making a political point about Iran, instead of a racist one.

Hannity was unsatisfied, asking Barr to if she had anything to say directly to Jarrett.

“If she’s watching, I’m so sorry that you thought I was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist,” Barr said, speaking directly into the camera. “Because it wasn’t. It was political. I’m sorry for the misunderstanding that caused, my ill-worded tweet. And, you know 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 I think, 30 years of my work can attest to.”

“Of course I’d tell her, she’s got to get a new haircut,” she added. “I mean seriously, she needs a new haircut.”

Skip to 6:30 in the above video to watch the direct apology.