Yahoo News Here's how Roseanne's character dies on The Conners
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season premiere of The Conners, 'Keep on Trucking'.
Following The Conners' debut, we finally know how Roseanne Barr's character Roseanne dies – and, yep, you already know.
Last month, Barr seemingly revealed how her character dies in the Roseanne spin-off, telling Brandon Straka on his YouTube show: "Oh yeah, they killed her. They have her die of an opioid overdose.
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"There's nothing I can do about it. It's done. It's over."
She was right, of course, it is over, Roseanne Conner is dead, and it's all down to an opiate OD. The spin-off picks up three weeks after Roseanne's death.
As her family members struggle to move on, the episode soon reveals that Roseanne didn't die of a heart attack, as they originally believed.
Instead, she met her maker after an accidental opioid overdose – the bottle of pills discovered by Dan (John Goodman).
The name on the prescription, however, does not belong to Roseanne. The pills are property of Marcy, played by a surprise guest star, the glorious Mary Steenburgen.
When she turns up, she tells Dan in tears that she and Roseanne were part of a group of neighbours who tried to help each other out when prescriptions were too expensive for them to afford.
"I would never have given them to her if I knew she had a problem," Marcy said, because she "know[s] what it's like to have that problem".
And here was how Roseanne reacted to her character being written out.
I AIN’T DEAD, BITCHES!!!!
- Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) October 17, 2018
Despite the critical and commercial success of the Roseanne reboot, ABC cancelled the show following a racially offensive tweet by its title star about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett.
The Conners airs on ABC on Tuesdays at 8/7c in the US.
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