Bill Maher has addressed the recent controversy surrounding his "friend" Roseanne Barr and racist tweets that resulted in her show being pulled by ABC.
During his Friday night run on The Real Time with Bill Maher, the host brought up that the 65-year-old said she had multiple personality disorder in 1994, reports Daily Mail.
"My friend Roseanne admitted that she had been admitted to a mental institution," Maher said. "She has said she has multiple personalities and, unfortunately, one of them is quite a racist."
Maher brought up Barr's struggle to make reference to the now deleted tweets the Roseanne star wrote comparing Barack Obama's former advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
He said: "I was a tough week for the line. You know the line? The one that comedians sometimes cross.
"Half the country wants Roseanne to go away forever and half the country wants Samantha Bee to go away forever.
"Now, Roseanne will always be my friend but her world came crashing down this week with a series of tweets she put out on Tuesday that were so full of racism, conspiracy theories and personal attacks they were described as abhorrent bordering on presidential."
Maher's insinuated that Barr's affiliation with Trump and the GOP easily led to her demise.
He added: "It is not a mystery to me that a person with a mental illness could be taken in by a party that has lost its mind."
Bill Maher attends the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Photo / Getty Images
Roseanne was cancelled earlier this week by ABC after Barr made her tweets.
In a 2001 interview with Esquire, Barr claimed that her multiple-personality disorder/dissociative-identity disorder stemmed from when her mother hired their abusive German neighbor into their home in Salt Lake City.
She said: "He used to torture me every day. I'd come home and tell my mother, 'He's hitting me'; he locked me in his garage and called me a Jew b***h and said Hitler was right!"
"And my mother would go, 'You're making this up!' And to show me I was wrong, she hires the guy to work at our house.
"So anyways, she hires this Nazi just to prove me wrong. That's how you get multiple-personality disorder. Or DID."
Barr claimed that her brain as a child was imaginative and a huge part of the reason she developed the disorder.
"It comes out of being a kid, see. It's a kid's invention," she added.
"When you're at that emotional-development level where you really can't tell the difference between what's in your head and what's outside your head, people-wise."
The names of her different identities: 2, Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Somebody, Joey, Heather, Roger, Kevin, Evangelina, Vangie, Martha, Mother, Piggy, Fucker, Bambi, Rosey, Roseanne, ONE.
