The actors played onscreen spouses of a working-class family on ‘Roseanne’

John Goodman (L); Roseanne Barr (R). Credit : VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty; teven Ferdman/Getty

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John Goodman opened up about the current status of his relationship with Roseanne Barr
Goodman told The Hollywood Reporter that he hasn’t spoken to his former Roseanne costar “for about seven or eight years”
That timeline lines up with the cancellation of Roseanne after Barr’s controversial tweets and Goodman going on to lead the spinoff, The Conners

John Goodman is opening up about where his relationship with Roseanne Barr stands today.

Goodman, 73, told The Hollywood Reporter he hasn’t spoken to Barr, 72, “for about seven or eight years.” That timeline lines up with Roseanne being canceled on ABC due to controversial tweets from Barr, leading to The Conners being created with Goodman leading the cast.

“I’d rather doubt if she wants to talk to me,” he said of his former onscreen wife.

Despite their distance now, Goodman reflected on their chemistry on the original run of Roseanne.

“We hit it off from jump street. She made me laugh, and I made her laugh, and wow, it was so much fun,” he recalled. “We’d get so many viewers for the show back then — 20, 30 million people. Things are so different now, but it was a special time.”

Roseanne Barr (L) and John Goodman (R) on the ‘Roseanne’ revival.Adam Rose via Getty Images

Roseanne originally aired for nine seasons on ABC from 1988 to 1997 and returned for a 10th season in 2018.

The revival’s planned 11th season was canceled after Barr, who played the titular matriarch of the working-class Conner family, sent a tweet likening Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to President Barack Obama, to an ape.

“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” President of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey said in a statement at the time.

Shortly after the cancellation, ABC ordered a spinoff titled The Conners with Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and more reprising their characters from Roseanne. Barr’s character was killed off due to an opioid overdose.

The Conners aired for seven seasons from 2018 to 2025.

John Goodman (L) and Roseanne Barr (R) on the original run of ‘Roseanne’. Snap/Shutterstock

Goodman previously opened up about the end of The Conners in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.

“It’s really hard,” Goodman, who played the patriarch of the family, Dan Conner, told PEOPLE during a set visit. “It’s something I’m going to miss for a while. I’m old and resistant to change.”

He admitted that the last seven seasons of the spinoff have gone by “so fast,” adding, “It was so exciting when we got this together and it seems like it was two weeks ago.”

Goodman also shared why he thinks the show — and Roseanne before it — connected so deeply with American audiences across the years.

He said it was because of its “focus on just kind of a normal family that’s really been up against it. And a lot of people in this country have been up against it for a long time.”

Roseanne is streaming on Peacock, and The Conners is available to watch on Hulu.