Roseanne Barr On Charlie Sheen: 'I Can Understand How You Can Go Really Crazy Like That'
July 13 2011, Published 8:30 a.m. ET
By Adam S. Levy - Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer
Roseanne Barr said that she completely gets how Charlie Sheen could crack up under the enormous pressures of the Hollywood meat grinder, as the funny woman appeared on The Late Show Tuesday to promote her new Lifetime reality show, Roseanne's Nuts.
She recalled a story about how her sister was in the audience for one of the initial tapings of her iconic sitcom Roseanne, and overheard a pair of skeptics questioning how "a show about fat people" would prosper in the ratings.
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"It turned out it was my own agent and the producer of the show!" Roseanne said, adding she understands why a guy like Sheen, in a similar scenario, would trip in his own footsteps.
"You can lose your mind," she said.
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Roseanne, 58, said she's never met Sheen, but "kind of feels sorry for him."
"I can understand how you can go really crazy like that," she said.
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