Roseanne Barr, the embroiled television star whose namesake show was canceled after she tweeted racist sentiments about a former Obama administration official, said Thursday night that she's not a racist. 
 
 Speaking in her first national television interview since the scandal, Barr told Fox News' Sean Hannity that she was "so sad that people thought" her tweets about Valerie Jarrett were "racist." 
 
 VALERIE JARRETT DISMISSED ROSEANNE BARR'S TWEETS: 'ROSEANNE WHO?' 
 
 "I've apologized a lot, it's been two months," Barr said. "I feel like I have apologized and explained and asked for forgiveness and made recompense, that's part of my religion." 
 
 Barr made headlines after she tweeted in May that Jarrett, who is African-American and was born in Iran, was as though the "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby." 
 
 The television star followed-up with an apology to Jarrett and "all Americans ... for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks." 
 
 ABC subsequently canceled the namesake show hours later, with ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey referring to Barr’s remarks as "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values." 
 
 ABC CANCELS 'ROSEANNE' AFTER BARR'S RACIST TWEET 
 
 Barr on Thursday night said that she "made a mistake. It cost me my life's work." 
 
 "I was so sad, and I'm so sad that anyone thinks that of me," Barr told Hannity. "I never meant to hurt anybody, or say anything negative about an entire race of people." 
 
 Barr also addressed Jarrett directly and apologized for the tweets, advocating for a broader dialogue on race relations. "We need to talk about race and everything that's connected to it," she said. 
 
 She also claimed that her contract with ABC protected her from any mistakes she were to possibly make. Barr claimed she was allowed 24 hours to correct a mistake, adding she wanted to make media appearances to explain her tweets, but that the network didn't allow her to do so. 
 
 Barr said that while she could've legally fought the firing, she felt leaving the show was part of her "recompense," and that she signed off on her staff joining ABC's spin-off, "The Conners." 
 
 In the wide-ranging interview, Barr also told Hannity that her infamous 1990 performance of The Star-Spangled Banner, in which she shrieked the song, grabbed her crotch and spit on the ground, was a mistake. 
 
 "Well that's what the stupid pitcher told me to do," she said. "Never take comedy from a pitcher." 

 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. 
 
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– In Roseanne Barr's first national TV interview since her infamous tweet about Valerie Jarrett ended her sitcom career, she delivered a more coherent version of what she has been saying on YouTube. She told Sean Hannity that she is not a racist and she is "so sad that people thought" she was after she tweeted that Jarrett was as if the "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby," Fox reports. "I never meant to hurt anybody, or say anything negative about an entire race of people," said Barr, who insists that she did not know Jarrett is African American. Barr said she had had a couple of beers the night she sent the tweet but she wasn't drunk. She said she had made a mistake that cost her "everything," Mediaite reports. "My life’s work. Everything. I made a mistake. And I paid the price for it," said Barr, who was fired from Roseanne within hours of the tweet. Asked by Hannity if there was anything she would like to say to Jarrett, Barr said: "If she’s watching, I’m so sorry that you thought I was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist." She said the tweet was political and she was sorry for the "misunderstanding," adding: "Of course I’d tell her, she’s got to get a new haircut. I mean seriously, she needs a new haircut."