Roseanne Barr’s Health Battles: From a ‘Damaged’ Heart to Mental Health Diagnosis
Actress, comedian, and writer Roseanne Barr is getting real about her health in 2026. The 73-year-old star recently opened up about her “damaged” heart. And she shared information regarding her personal ailments in the past. Here’s what to know about Barr’s health, including her latest claims.
Roseanne Barr discussed having dissociative identity disorder in the past
In the ’90s, Roseanne Barr opened up about having dissociative identity disorder (DID), known as multiple personality disorder at the time. According to ABC News, Barr said she had seven total personalities. Their names were Somebody, Nobody, Baby, Cindy, Susan, Joey, and Heather. After a decade of hard work, Barr said she was able to integrate the personalities.
“I haven’t had any blackouts for quite a while. I used to have them minute by minute,” she said. “I was always in conflict about conflicting parts, but I’ve learned how to get them to listen to each other now. I’ve learned how to get them to know they’re on the same team, that we occupy the same body, which we never knew before.”
“It’s like living in a maze,” she continued. “It’s like that old woman who keeps adding on to her house …. But the parts don’t get along, and some of them have some real strange ideas about how to defend.”
The comedian also discussed having depression. During an interview with 20/20 in 2018, she opened up about her nervous breakdowns and hospitalizations linked to her hit show, Roseanne.
“I had several nervous breakdowns, but fortunately, no one noticed,” she said, according to Today. “That was what I always thought. But no, I did have a few nervous breakdowns and was hospitalized several times. It was very difficult.”
The comedian thought she was going blind from glaucoma and macular degeneration
In 2018, Roseanna Barr clarified that she wasn’t going blind from glaucoma or macular degeneration despite previous doctors suggesting this diagnosis in 2015.
“I went to a new doctor about a year ago,” Barr told People. “She told me I don’t have macular degeneration, but rather a mole on the inside of my eye that’s growing, and that’s why my vision is narrowing. Probably in the next year or so, I can get it removed. I have a bad eye, but I’m not losing my eyesight.”
Barr noted that her father has macular degeneration, which she thought led to her own diagnosis. “I just accepted it,” she said. “It was a way better diagnosis than some of my friends were getting. It’s not deadly. I didn’t take it too badly.”
When Barr first received the health scare involving her eyes, she felt fearful. However, she learned to accept that “positive that nothing will go right” in her life. “That lets me off the hook,” she said. “You never know. It’s never what you think, and it’s never what you dread — it’s always something else that you didn’t expect.”
Roseanne Barr discussed her ‘damaged’ heart in March 2026
In March 2026, Roseanna Barr opened up about her “damaged” heart on The Roseanne Barr Podcast. She noted that she wanted a “ponytail facelift,” which led to a warning from doctors.
“This doctor says I have to go get my heart checked out because it’s damaged,” she said, according to Fox News. “So, now I’m so pissed. Because I’m like, I need a new doctor.”
“He’s always sending me to other doctors to check me out,” she continued. “And I’m like, why do I have to go find something wrong when nothing’s wrong and then get in shape just so I can have surgery and die on the surgery table?”
“I mean, it doesn’t make any sense,” Barr continued. “I would rather not get ready for any sort of surgery ever again in my life and just, you know, get a heart attack or a stroke and then just be put into the home. What do they call that place? Hospice.”
