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Tom Arnold noted on X Tuesday that his ex-wife, Roseanne Barr, had defended him in an interview.
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The two had an especially contentious divorce, so he was shocked.
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Barr had sided with theTrue Lies actor over former Roseanne writer and producer Chuck Lorre.
Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr had an infamously bitter divorce.
So when she noted — publicly — that he’d done something right, the Nine Months actor had to note it.
“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up,” he wrote on social media. “33 years ago I predicted I would do something so cool my 1st X Wife Roseanne would be forced to say something almost nice about me. Hell finally froze over today.”
Arnold’s comment was above an interview that Barr did with The Hollywood Reporter, in which she was asked about comments that Chuck Lorre, a producer and writer on Roseanne in the ’90s, made about the show in his new book, Sitcom: A Memoir.
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Lorre, who served as the sitcom’s head writer during its third and fourth seasons, claimed that the show’s writing team were made to “write real scripts and put Tom’s name on the front page — as if Tom had written them.”
Arnold had married Barr in 1990, and joined the cast and the writing and producing teams. But the pair had a contentious divorce in 1994, and his relationship with the show ended too.
After Lorre’s comments came out, Arnold toldEntertainment Weekly that they were untrue.
“I never would put my name on a script that [Lorre] wrote,” Arnold said, explaining the lengthy process in which scripts were produced.
On Tuesday, Barr was asked whether it was Lorre or Arnold who was telling the truth.
“Unbelievably — I don’t think you’ll hear me say this often — but Tom Arnold is telling the truth for once,” Barr said. “Talk about the paradigm switch here. Tom Arnold is defending me. I have to thank him for that. That’s the first time he’s done something right by me in his f—ing life. Thanks, Tom.”
Arnold’s astonishment elicited jokes about what Barr’s defense of him means.
“The apocalypse is upon us,” comedian Brady Joe Bunch wrote.
“That’s it,” comic Tammy Pescatelli wrote. “The Browns are winning and now this. It’s end times….”
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