Roseanne Barr Responds to Chuck Lorre's Claims About Miscredited Scripts, Sides With Ex Tom Arnold

Roseanne Barr broke her silence on Chuck Lorre’s memoir claims about working on her sitcom, siding with her ex-husband Tom Arnold. In an interview published Tuesday, October 20, Barr, 73, said Arnold was “telling the truth for once,” after Lorre alleged that the Roseanne set was “cruel” and toxic. Lorre, who worked as a writer on Roseanne from 1990 to 1992, claimed Barr was hostile to writers, that the team endured 70-hour work weeks as punishment, and that writers were forced to ghostwrite scripts for Arnold without credit. Arnold denied the ghostwriting allegation to Entertainment Weekly, saying scripts reflected input from “every writer’s fingerprints,” while head writer Danny Jacobson corroborated Lorre’s account.