Roseanne Barr reveals she is going blind

The defiant -and sometimes outrageous- Roseanne Barr has sadly revealed she is slowly losing her sight.

She told The Daily Beast she has macular degeneration and glaucoma, but doctors could not indicate when she would lose her sight altogether.

“No, they can’t. My vision is closing in now,” Barr says, making a narrowing motion with her hands near her eyes. “It’s something weird. But there are other weird things. That one’s harsh, ’cause I read a lot, and then I thought, ‘Well, I guess I could hire somebody to read for me and read to me.’ But I like words and I like looking. You do what you have to do. I just try and enjoy vision as much as possible— y’know, living it up. My dad had it, too.”

Barr, 63, who is featuring in Roseanne For President! a documentary on her 2012 run for the US presidency, says she not excited by the prospect of Hillary Clinton in White House even as a symbolic achievement.

“‘Symbolically’? What does that mean? I would rather see the first intelligent, honest American president. I don’t care what’s in their shorts. I don’t care what it looks like down there at all. The thing I did like Hillary for was that she was the first candidate who ever listened to what women said, because she had to,” she said.

“I would not like to see her win. She’s the same old shit. I’d like to see me win.”