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The outspoken, Emmy award-winning star of the 1990s hit
comedy show "Roseanne" and former U.S. presidential candidate
told the Daily Beast website that her vision "is closing now."
"It's something weird. But there are other weird things," she
said in the interview. "I just try and enjoy vision as much as
possible - y'know, living it up. My dad had it too."
Barr, 62, said she smokes marijuana to help relieve the pressure
she suffers in her eyes and also believes it opens her mind.
"You’re like, wow, you’re in awe. You look up into the stars. It
makes you wonder. It doesn’t close that down,” she added.
Macular degeneration is a chronic illness that causes vision
loss in the center of the field of vision. An estimated 15
million Americans suffer the illness, according to the American
Society of Retina Specialists.
Barr's blue-collar comedy show "Roseanne," ran from 1988 to
1997, and was considered a trailblazer at the time in the way it
portrayed family and women.
"Once you're famous, you're never not famous. My show is on five
times a day in 15 countries or something. I'm still relevant to
people," she said.
Barr's run for the presidency in 2012 on the California-based
Peace and Freedom Party ticket, which called for the
legalization of marijuana and same sex marriage, is detailed in
a documentary film "Roseanne for President!" which is showing
this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
The comedian said she might run again and would not support
Hillary Clinton, who announced her candidacy for the presidency
this month.
(This version of the of the story was refiled to fix
typographical error in first paragraph, please read "slowly"
going blind)
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; Editing by Mary Milliken and
David Gregorio)
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