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What do you do if you’re Roseanne this week? Come home to Utah, apparently.

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You’ve become a national sensation — perhaps a pariah — after your racist tweet went viral. Your top-rated TV sitcom has been canceled. Your reruns have been pulled from schedules. You’ve been fired by your agents.

On Thursday, Barr — who grew up in Utah and graduated from East High School — was seen in public for the first time since the scandal broke and her career collapsed. The London-based Daily Mail posted pictures and video of Barr walking in the 9th & 9th area of Salt Lake City, talking on her cellphone and smoking a cigarette while, according to the Mail, “hiding out in her home state of Utah.