Roseanne due to Charlie Sheen's meltdown on his show. Cryer experienced turmoil in his professional life when Sheen, the most popular star of the show, went off the rails and was fired in 2011. Ashton Kutcher eventually replaced Sheen, but the show was never the same. It ended up being canceled in 2015.

Roseanne's cancellation was far more swift, however. The former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. The same day, ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey released a statement that called Barr's tweet abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with ABC's values - which is why they decided to cancel the show. Barr has insisted that, while her tweet was repulsive and ignorant, she had no idea that Jarrett was part African-American when she compared her to a monkey. And that was only the start of a series of controversial statements from Barr.

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In a new interview with Us Weekly, Jon Cryer says he knows some people involved with Roseanne, and although he doesn't know her (or her beliefs) personally, he certainly understands a situation where the views and actions of just one star effects a lot of other people's jobs. "So I have a lot of empathy for people in that situation. I get frustrated because this can be the most wonderful, happy job that you can have. You can bring so much positivity into people’s lives and it’s really frustrating when people throw that away," he said, adding that relaunching a show is a tough job. Still, he wishes them well.

Although Cryer can certainly draw similarities from his experience and the Roseanne debacle, there are also a lot of important differences. Charlie Sheen certainly showed self-destructive behavior that led to his firing, but he didn't destroy the whole image of Two and a Half Men. Television stations still ran the reruns, and even though the show wasn't the same, it was given four more years of traction. At the time of Sheen's breakdown, some even felt sorry for him while others humorously followed his meltdown like a train wreck. Roseanne Barr's tweet yielded nothing but disgust, condemnation, and obituaries for the rest of her career. Things turned so bad that reruns of the original Roseanne were instantly removed from Viacom-owned stations.

While Cryer may wish The Conners debuts this fall.

Source: Us Weekly