Editing Roseanne Barr (section)

===Family conflicts===
Barr's sister Geraldine<ref name="ProjectQ"/><ref name="StraightParents"/> is a lesbian and her brother Ben is gay.<ref name="ProjectQ">{{cite web|last=Hennie|first=Matt|url=http://www.projectqatlanta.com/news_articles/view/Roseanne_Barr_delights_in_Atlanta_photos?gid=7319|title=Roseanne Barr delights in Atlanta|publisher=Project Q Atlanta|date=January 25, 2011|access-date=February 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715120834/http://www.projectqatlanta.com/news_articles/view/Roseanne_Barr_delights_in_Atlanta_photos?gid=7319|url-status=live|archive-date=July 15, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="StraightParents">{{cite book |title=Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together |last1=Bernstein |first1=Robert A.|author-link=Robert L. Bernstein|last2=MacNeil|first2=Robert|author-link2=Robert MacNeil|last3=DeGeneres|first3=Betty|author-link3=Betty DeGeneres|year=2003|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|isbn=978-1-56025-452-2 |page=184}}</ref> Barr has said that this inspired her to introduce gay characters into her sitcom and to support [[same sex marriage|same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture |last=Doty |first=Alexander |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-8166-2245-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingthingsperf00doty_0/page/122 122] |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |url=https://archive.org/details/makingthingsperf00doty_0/page/122 }}</ref><ref name="ProjectQ"/>

Geraldine worked as Barr's manager during the early part of her career and clashed with Barr's second husband, Tom Arnold.<ref name="SanFranciscoChronicle1994">{{cite journal|last=Garchik|first=Leah|title=The Wrath of Roseanne 's Baby Sister – Media Weary Geraldine Barr Writes Her Side |journal=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=October 17, 1994}}</ref> Barr fired Geraldine, leading Geraldine to file a $70.3 million [[breach of contract]] lawsuit in [[Superior Court of Los Angeles County]] on December 18, 1991. She said Barr promised her half the earnings from the ''Roseanne'' show as recompense for helping invent the "domestic goddess" character in 1981, and for serving as "writer, organizer, accountant, bookkeeper and confidante".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/12/20/roseannes-squabbling-sister-sues-for-70-million/|title=Roseanne's Squabbling Sister Sues For $70 Million|work=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=December 20, 1991|access-date=August 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005203116/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-12-20/news/9112200667_1_roseanne-arnold-barr|url-status=live|archive-date=October 5, 2011}}</ref> Since the [[statute of limitations]] had expired, the suit was thrown out.<ref name="SanFranciscoChronicle1994"/>

In a 1991 interview with [[People (magazine)|''People'']], Barr described herself as an [[incest]] survivor, accusing both of her parents of [[physical abuse|physical]] and [[sexual abuse]],<ref name="People1991">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-star-cries-incest-vol-36-no-13/|title=A Star Cries Incest|volume=36|number=13|date=October 7, 1991|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330024810/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20111007,00.html|url-status=live|archive-date=March 30, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> claims which they and Geraldine publicly denied.<ref name="PressTelegram">{{cite journal|last=Williams|first=Monte|title=Are Incest Charges Plausible?|journal=[[Press-Telegram]]|location=[[Long Beach, CA]]|date=October 8, 1991}}</ref> [[Melvin Belli]], her parents' lawyer, said they had passed a [[polygraph]] test "with flying colors".<ref name="PressTelegram"/> Barr was part of an incest recovery group, something she said her parents knew about but for which they were "in denial".<ref name="PressTelegram"/>

On February 14, 2011, Barr and Geraldine appeared on ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' where Barr admitted the word "incest" could have been the wrong word to use and that she should have waited until her therapy was over before revealing the "darkest time" in her life.<ref name="Oprah">{{cite news|url=http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2011/02/14/17276856-wenn-story.html|title=Barr: 'I was wrong about incest revelations'|newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]]|publisher=[[Sun Media]]|date=February 14, 2011|access-date=February 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413204312/http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2011/02/14/17276856-wenn-story.html|url-status=live|archive-date=April 13, 2011}}</ref> She told [[Oprah Winfrey]], "I was in a very unhappy relationship and I was prescribed numerous psychiatric drugs&nbsp;... to deal with the fact that I had some mental illness&nbsp;... I totally lost touch with reality&nbsp;... (and) I didn't know what the truth was&nbsp;... I just wanted to drop a bomb on my family".<ref name="Oprah"/> She added that not everything was "made up", saying, "Nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification".<ref name="Oprah"/> Geraldine said they had not spoken for 12 years, but had reconciled.<ref name="Oprah"/>