The 'Ambien Defense' Roseanne Used Has a Long, Dubious History

Roseanne Barr had an explanation in the aftermath of sending a racist tweet that led to the cancellation of her sitcom, Roseanne: Ambien made me do it.

"It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting," Barr wrote in a now-deleted tweet, adding in a separate post that she was “Not giving excuses for what I did (tweeted) but I’ve done weird stuff while on ambien.”

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