Roseanne Not Wasted, Just Hacked

Tue., Aug. 7, 2007 3:40 PM PDT by Josh Grossberg

For one twisted day, Roseanne Barr's MySpace wasn't really her space.

On Monday, gossip blogs were atwitter over rambling, seemingly booze-soaked rants from the comedian on her MySpace page, posts that made it appear that the boundary-pushing comedian had gone over the edge.

"I need to stop drinking, but I do not wish to...I am in Hawaii on the beach drunk and trying to hide out from people who want me to do a new sitcom which I probably will do cuz [sic] I miss working," went one message attributed to Barr. "I still f--king hate tom arnolds f--king guys and everyone in show biz is a c---sucker too. I should not drink so much, as my own grown children say, but what the hell...I LIKE RED WINE!!!!"

Then there was this little nugget:

"When you are old you pee your pants more it seems...like when you laugh or run or sneeze. I have always peed my pants since a kid...I have little control over it when running too...people say that you can get vaginal rejuvenation operations that will help you not pee so much, but I don't think I could get a laser up in my bladder without freaking totally out...I would rather just smell like pee, like old ladies are meant to do. Aloha!"

But, it turns, Barr says she wasn't in a pina colada haze. She was just being victimized by a hack attack.

On her official Website, roseanneworld.com, Barr says the MySpace messages were the result of a disgruntled employee who hijacked her account.

"One of the interns who was administering my MySpace page...has been fired," the 54-year-old comic wrote late Monday. "I apologize for the offensive blogging that went on there last night. I write only at RoseanneWorld.com. I apologize to all on MySpace who received the offensive bulletins. The matter has been handled."

The MySpace messages have since been removed from the page, but screengrabs of the material have been widely circulated, including on the Perez Hilton blog. Roseanne's publicist, James Moore, did not return phone calls seeking comment on the purported MySpace hoax.

Trying to make light of the situation, in another post three hours later Roseanne riffed on the incident.

"The fired intern from MySpace...has also stolen my private sex tape," she quipped. "I am offering $25,000 for it's [sic] return (unless someone would like to distribute it—then I am willing to deal)."

No word on any takers. That is, not counting Britain's Sun tabloid, which seemed to believe Barr's joke, publishing a story in Tuesday's edition with the headline "Roseanne in Sex Tape Scandal."