“It’s one of my biggest regrets,” the actress said of how she treated her costar.
We were the first gay couple on TV unlike everybody thinks everybody else was,wewere!
and you’re fabulous, and you are on the right side politically.
Sandra Bernhard and Morgan Fairchild on ‘Roseanne’.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
“Everybody was kind of not nice to her,” Bernhard added.
“I’m calling myself out, honey, along with everybody else.”
“Because a lipstick lesbian had never been done [on TV],” she recalled.
“I am just this weird person that I like doing iconoclastic things.
I don’t like doing the safe thing.
So I said yes.”
Ultimately, Fairchild thought the role was both funny and eye-opening.
