By Michaela Gordoni
Roseanne Barr was 18 when she was sent to the Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers in Denver and 35 when she was finally reunited with her long-lost daughter, which she’s grateful for.
“When I gave my daughter up for adoption, I said to her, ‘I’ll see you again when you’re 18 because I’m not going to change my name, and I’m going to be famous. I’m going to have my own show named ROSEANNE,'” Barr recalled in her ROSEANNE IS AMERICA documentary.
A tabloid magazine, the National Enquirer, found her daughter, Brandi Brown, by bribing someone who worked in records in Colorado.
“Am I upset about it? No. I’m grateful,” Barr says.
Barr gave her child up for adoption because her mom thought their neighbors would look down on them. Barr thinks that’s ironic, as they were all “drunks and perverts,” according to her memory.
She was angry at the magazine at first.
“I had left information allowing her to find me when she turned 21,” Barr said. “I had even told my own kids about the adoption a year earlier because I knew she was 17 and might try to find me.”
But the paper knew too much about Brown.
“They knew everything but had only told her that her mother was someone famous. They had been asking questions, showing up in [her adoptive parents’] garage, scaring the s— out of them,” Barr said. “I begged them to stay the f— away. Then I panicked and hired a private detective to track her down rather than have her read about me being her mom in a tabloid, which is so dirty and sleazy.”
“I’m so glad I found her,” the actress said.
When they met in person many years ago, they felt an instant connection.
Barr said, “I turned around and felt this powerful magnet. We looked at each other, Brandi jumped out of her seat, and we started running toward each other. We embraced and wouldn’t let go of each other, hugging and crying.”
Barr, whose show, ROSANNE, was cancelled after she made a racist tweet, revealed that she fought with her producers when she wanted to add a black granddaughter to her on-screen family.
“When I said I was going to have a Black granddaughter, they went out of their ——- minds over that,” Barr said “They just couldn’t have it.” Even when she got her wish, she wasn’t satisfied with what the writers wrote for the character and felt that they didn’t give the role proper treatment.
Barr also delves into her political opinions in the new documentary. ROSEANNE IS AMERICA is currently available on Video On Demand and available for pre-order on Vimeo On Demand.
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