"An insult to the fans": Roseanne Barr fuming at the way 'The Conners' spin-off is going to kill her character

The comedian who made an appearance on a recent episode of Brandon Straka’s YouTube show 'Walk Away' shared that her character will die from an opioid overdose
PUBLISHED SEP 18, 2018

Roseanne Barr has finally revealed the fate of her namesake character and how she will be written off in the upcoming 'The Conners' spin-off. 

The comedian who made an appearance on a recent episode of Brandon Straka’s YouTube show 'Walk Away' said that her character would die from an opioid overdose when 'Roseanne' gets rebooted as 'The Conners' this fall on ABC. “Oh ya, they killed her,” she said. “They have her die of an opioid overdose.”

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