The comedian Roseanne Barr is speaking out this week to reveal that she’s suffering from a devastating health struggle. Indeed, she’s revealed that she has a “damaged heart.” This has left the 73-year-old former Roseanne star fearing that she could “die on the surgery table.”
On the latest episode of “The Roseanne Barr Podcast,” Barr revealed her health issue while talking about the “ponytail facelift” she wanted to get.
“This doctor says I have to go get my heart checked out because it’s damaged,” said Barr, 73. “So now I’m so pissed. Because I’m like, I need a new doctor.”
“He’s always sending me to other doctors to check me out,” she continued. “And I’m like, why do I have to go find something wrong when nothing’s wrong and then get in shape just so I can have surgery and die on the surgery table?”
Barr went on to double down by saying that the prospect of surgery didn’t make sense to her.
“I mean, it doesn’t make any sense,” she explained. “I would rather not get ready for any sort of surgery ever again in my life and just, you know, get a heart attack or a stroke and then just be put into the home. What do they call that place? Hospice.”
This comes after Barr recently opened up about moving to Texas. While this move has been a “dream come true” for Barr, it’s also been a lot of work.
“I’m doing a lot of mowing. I’ve got a really fantastic tractor out here, and I’m mowing,” Barr told Fox News. “The only problem is I don’t clear the trees quite as good as I should, and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me in the head.”
“So, I’ve had several injuries recently. I had this one tree … I knocked it and a great big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor,” she added. “So I knew I had to get out of there, and it weighed about a hundred pounds.”
Barr then said that it took her an hour to move the tree “inch by inch” before she was able to flip it over.
Last year, Barr revealed that she believes her life is a representation of the American experience.
“I went from poverty to wealth through comedy,” she said in 2025. “That’s a typical Jewish-American experience in my generation and a few other generations for minority people that are funny. I think it’s typical, you know.”
Barr’s iconic sitcom Roseanne aired on ABC from 1988 until 1997. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential sitcoms of all time. During its run, it won Barr both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award.
Roseanne was rebooted in 2018. Sadly, that same year, ABC canceled this Roseanne reboot. This came after Barr posted a tweet about Barack Obama’s former advisor Valerie Jarrett that many felt was racist in nature.
ABC then brought back Roseanne as the new show The Conners with all the cast members from the reboot except for Barr, brutally killing off her character in the process. That show ran until the spring of 2025. Barr has since confirmed that she no longer speaks to her former co-stars.
“No, I’m not friends with none of them,” Barr previously said. “They’re all in the past. I have pleasant memories of what fun we had – wish them all the best. And no, we don’t talk. I’ve moved on from that horrendous ending and chapter of my life, but you know, I don’t hold any bitterness or nothing to them, but my God, what fun we had on that show.”
While we’re glad that Barr is enjoying her new life in Texas, it’s sad that she is suffering from a health crisis when it comes to her heart. Please join us in saying a prayer for Roseanne Barr!