Roseanne to Sean Hannity on Controversial Tweet: 'It Cost Me Everything'

Roseanne Barr told Sean Hannity Thursday night in her first televised interview that she's sorry for a racist tweet that led to the cancellation of her hit ABC series.

She insisted she is not racist.

The comedian appeared on Hannity's prime-time show on Fox News in a wide-ranging interview that focused on the damage of her tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama.

Hannity repeatedly urged Barr to apologize to Jarrett on air. The comedian eventually did, saying that she was sorry for her "ill-worded tweet" and said she would tell Jarrett that she is sorry "that you feel harm and hurt."

She repeated her assertion that she did not know Jarrett was black when she likened Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a "Planet of the Apes" actor.

“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."

Barr again said she didn’t know Jarrett was an African American, adding that it wasn't widely known.

“No, I didn’t know — like a lot of Americans including a lot of people of all types, they didn’t know either,” she said.

Hannity asked her several times for an apology, but Barr seemed to hesitate.

“If she’s watching, I’m so sorry that you thought I was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist,” Barr said. “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.”