US comedian Roseanne Barr says she regrets making herself a “hate magnet” after tweeting a racist comment which led to the cancellation of her TV show.
In a tearful podcast interview with friend Rabbi Shmuley Botea, she says she “never would have wittingly called any black person… a monkey”.
Last month, she compared ex-Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, who is African American, to an ape.
The interview was Barr’s first since her revived show was cancelled.
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Barr sparked an online backlash after she called Mrs Jarrett the child of the Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes film.
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