Roseanne Barr: 'Menopause made me nicer'

Roseanne Barr has joked that menopause calmed her notoriously fiery temper.

The comic has penned a new column on ageing for Newsweek, in which she reveals that she's only recently learned to enjoy life's simple pleasures.

Barr wrote: "Menopause had indeed made me into a nicer person. After menopause, I discovered the joy of drinking wine, and of sinking deeply into writing and time alone.

"These things replaced the sex drive I had thoroughly cruised down as a youth, exploring one dead end, detour, and unpaved dirty road after another."

Barr also credited her partner Johnny Argent will helping her to overcome her "fear" of death.

"I no longer fear moving on to a better existence than this one, which is, of course, no existence at all. Oblivion will be f**king sweet after a lifetime at the mercy of my hormones and my biological clock and the twisted logic that produced the craving for a dominant male sex partner," the actress quipped.

"I'm quite thrilled to say that at this late hour, in my autumn years, I have at last found a man who is more savant than idiot, and with whom the sparse occasions of physical enjoining of souls is quite sublime."

Barr recently signed on for the series Downwardly Mobile, which will mark her return to sitcoms after 14 years.

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