The Conners Season 1 Displaces Roseanne Season 11! SPOILERS! So, How Was Roseanne Barr Written Off The ABC TV Show In The Conners Season 1, Episode 1 (S01 E01)?

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The Conners Season 1 Displaces Roseanne Season 11! SPOILERS!

So, How Was Roseanne Barr Written Off The ABC TV Show In The Conners Season 1, Episode 1 (S01 E01)?

This…

…is now this.

USA Today reports:

      ‘The Conners’ reveals how the show kills off Roseanne – and fired Roseanne Barr responds

      …R.I.P., Roseanne Conner.

      Viewers learned that the TV matriarch had died at the top of Tuesday’s premiere of “The Conners,” the spinoff sitcom that replaced “Roseanne” after a racist May tweet by star Roseanne Barr led to her firing and the top-rated sitcom’s cancellation.
      The cause of death? Opioid drug use that aggravated existing health conditions.

      Barr, perhaps not surprisingly, took a different tack in a tweet – the communication form that got her in trouble in the first place – shortly after the episode aired on the East Coast.

      “I AIN’T DEAD, BITCHES!!!” she wrote…

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