The former sitcom star added that she has no interest in getting surgery and would prefer to be put in hospice.

Roseanne Barr fears she will ‘die on the surgery table’ after doctor told her she has a ‘damaged’ heart

The former sitcom star added that she has no interest in getting surgery and would prefer to be put in hospice.

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Roseanne Barr isn't happy about a recent diagnosis from her doctor.

On a new episode of her eponymous podcast, the former sitcom star expressed interest in getting cosmetic surgery — before revealing that the procedure she wants won't be possible due to a recent health update.

"I want one of those ponytail facelifts," the 73-year-old actress said. "But this doctor says I have to go get my heart checked out because it’s damaged."

Barr continued, "I’m so pissed because I’m like, 'I need a new doctor.' He’s always sending me to other doctors to check me out, and I’m like, 'Why do I have to go find something wrong when nothing’s wrong?' And then get in shape just so I can have surgery and die on the surgery table. I mean, well, it doesn’t make any sense."

Roseanne Barr in 2023.

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Despite pushback from her guest and longtime friend Shannon Hughey, the controversial actress lamented that she has no interest in future medical procedures and would prefer to live out her days in hospice care.

"I would rather not get ready for any sort of surgery ever again in my life and just get a heart attack or a stroke and then just be put into a home," Barr declared. "That is life: living in the hospice. That is where life is worth living, I've seen it."

After describing hospice as "the greatest thing ever," Barr explained, "They know you’re dying and they give you morphine."

Barr did not expand on the details of her medical condition, and throughout the winding podcast episode, alternated between sipping red wine and smoking a cigarette.

Best known as the former lead of the long-running ABC sitcom *Roseanne*, Barr came under fire in 2018 after writing a racist social media post about former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett. ABC subsequently canceled the revival of her '90s sitcom and ordered a spinoff, The Conners, without Barr, which ran for seven seasons, ending last year. Barr has largely stayed away from Hollywood spaces since the controversy.

Roseanne Barr on 'Roseanne'.

In June 2025, Barr opened up about embracing a quieter life in Texas, where she owns a 30-acre ranch that she tends to by trimming trees with a chainsaw and mowing her own property.

"I’m doing a lot of mowing. I’ve got a really fantastic tractor out here and I’m mowing," she told Fox News Digital last year. "The only problem is I don’t clear the trees quite as good as I should and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me in the head."

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She went on to share that she had recently suffered several injuries, explaining, "I had this one tree… I knocked it and a great big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor. So, I knew I had to get out of there, and it weighed about a hundred pounds."

Barr shared that it took her an hour to move the tree "inch by inch" before she was able to flip it over and escape.

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