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Roseanne Barr reveals 'bribe' at adoption agency helped her find baby she gave up at 18

Roseanne Barr opens up about one of the most personal chapters of her life in her new documentary Roseanne Is America: reuniting with the daughter she placed for adoption as a teenager.

Back in 1971, at just 18 years old, Barr was sent to the Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers in Denver, where she gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Brandi Brown. According to Barr, it was her rise to fame that prompted the National Enquirer to track down her daughter—using questionable means to obtain the information; (Roseanne (C) and children Jake Pentland (L) and Brandi Brown) 'I had my laptop there in bed, as always, and I opened it, and there was [a post with] a picture of Valerie Jarrett next to Helena Bonham Carter in full makeup as Ari in "Planet of the Apes," and they looked like Xerox copies of each other, so I captioned it.'

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