--- title: Ambien Company Hits Back at Roseanne Barr Over Ambien Tweet description: The pharmaceutical company behind Ambien is hitting back at Roseanne Barr for blaming a racist tweet on the prescription sedative. canonical: https://time.com/5295405/roseanne-barr-ambien-tweeting-response/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-30T16:09:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:10.123Z og:title: Ambien Company Responds to Rosanne's 'Ambien Tweeting' Claim og:description: 'Racism is not a known side effect.' og:url: https://time.com/5295405/roseanne-barr-ambien-tweeting-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcba2bbc51d499a3d/698931d397cdff4b556b5601/roseanne-ambien.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Roseanne-Premiere-Roseanne-Barr og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ambien Company Responds to Rosanne's 'Ambien Tweeting' Claim twitter:description: 'Racism is not a known side effect.' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcba2bbc51d499a3d/698931d397cdff4b556b5601/roseanne-ambien.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect.' 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Rodriguez/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 30, 2018 4:09 PM UTC The pharmaceutical company behind [Ambien](http://time.com/5295104/roseanne-barr-ambien/) is hitting back at [Roseanne Barr](http://time.com/5294568/roseanne-cancellation-abc-racism/) for blaming a [racist tweet](http://time.com/5294402/roseanne-cancelled-abc-racist-conspiracy-theory/) on the prescription sedative. In response to a now-deleted tweet in which Barr wrote that she had been “ambien tweeting” when she posted the [racist tweet that led to her show _Roseanne_‘s cancellation](http://time.com/5294313/roseanne-cancelled-abc/), drugmaker Sanofi has shut down the 65-year-old actor’s apparent assertion that its sleeping pills were to blame. “People of all races, religions and nationalities work at Sanofi every day to improve the lives of people around the world,” the company tweeted on Wednesday. “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.” ABC cancelled its popular sitcom reboot _Roseanne_ on Tuesday in the wake of a tweet in which after Barr stated that if “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby,” it would be former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, who is black and was born in Iran. > [](https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1001776470614855680) > [](https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5295405/roseanne-barr-ambien-tweeting-response/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5295405/roseanne-barr-ambien-tweeting-response/"},"headline":"'Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect.' 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