Inside Roseanne Barr’s health issues as she reveals damaged heart diagnosis

Roseanne Barr has made multiple headlines after she spoke about her health on the March 30 episode of The Roseanne Barr Podcast. The seventy-three-year-old had been talking about wanting to get a "ponytail facelift" when she shared that a doctor had explained to her that she might have to undergo surgery soon for a “damaged heart.”

"This doctor says I have to go get my heart checked out because it's damaged. So now I'm so pissed. Because I'm like, I need a new doctor," Barr said.

The Roseanne Show host also shared her frustration about being sent from one specialist to another. Barr added that the whole process made little sense to her.

"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?" she said.

On the subject of the surgery, Barr was blunt about what she would prefer instead.

"I mean, it doesn't make any sense. I would rather not get ready for any sort of surgery ever again in my life and just, you know, get a heart attack or a stroke and then just be put into the home. What do they call that place? Hospice," Barr said.

Roseanne Barr previously opened up about going blind from two progressive eye diseases:

The heart news wasn't the first time Barr had been open about a serious health matter. Back in 2015, CNN reported that she was losing her sight after she shared that she had been living with macular degeneration and glaucoma.

The Emmy award-winning actress opened up about what it meant for her day-to-day.

"My vision is closing in now. I just try and enjoy vision as much as possible. Y'know, living it up," she said.

Steven A. Shanbom, MD, of Shanbom Eye Specialists in Berkley, Michigan, also spoke about Barr's situation at the time, noting the combination of both conditions was unusual but not impossible. He clarified he was not treating her and was not speaking from knowledge of her specific case.

"It's somewhat unusual that Roseanne Barr has both, but not unheard of. Certainly it's sad. The combination of the two is terrible. Macular degeneration takes away her central vision, and glaucoma is taking away her peripheral vision," Dr. Shanbom added.

Roseanne Barr later discovered her 2015 blindness diagnosis had been wrong:

The macular degeneration diagnosis Roseanne Barr received in 2015 turned out to be incorrect. She told People in 2018 that the cause of her vision problems was something far less serious

"She told me I don't have macular degeneration, but rather a mole on the inside of my eye that's growing, and that's why my vision is narrowing. Probably in the next year or so I can get it removed. I have a bad eye, but I'm not losing my eyesight," Barr explained.

Barr also reflected on how she had handled the original diagnosis years earlier. Her father's own struggle with macular degeneration had made the news easier to sit with at the time.

"I just accepted it. It was a way better diagnosis than some of my friends were getting. It's not deadly. I didn't take it too badly," she said.

Roseanne Barr recalled being hit by a car as a teenager:

As per a report shared by Us Weekly, Barr had also spoken about a serious injury she sustained as a teenager. She recalled the moment she was struck by a car and the lengthy recovery that followed on an episode of Bunnie XO's Dumb Blonde podcast.

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"The hood ornament went in my head and I got a brain concussion and a head concussion, I was in a coma and all that stuff and when I woke up, I had some kind of malfunction in the brain," she shared.

Roseanne Barr was around fifteen years old when the incident happened and spent roughly nine months in the hospital recovering.

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