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Dan Conner had a heart attack in the second-to-last-season cliffhanger of “Roseanne.” He survived. Until he didn’t.

John Goodman’s character, it was revealed by Roseanne in the last season’s closing minutes in 1997, had really died at his daughter’s wedding. The audience spent 24 episodes believing he pulled through. Roseanne’s narration explained she constructed a fantasy to cope.

It was one of the most divisive moments in recent television history when the show ended, but in this year’s short-lived revival, Dan was very much alive after the show opened with a self-aware joke about the controversy.

Now, following Roseanne Barr’s racist Twitter rant in May that prompted ABC to cancel the revival mid-season and spin off the series in “The Conners,” Goodman has said how the show will address the matriarch’s absence.

She’s dead, Goodman explained.

And this death might finally stick.

“I guess he’ll be mopey and sad because his wife’s dead,” Goodman said of his blue-collar-hero character Dan in an interview with the Sunday Times.

The often media-shy Goodman opened up about Barr’s controversial departure that drew reactions from President Trump, whom Barr supports.

In May, she made references to President Barack Obama’s former adviser Valerie Jarrett and apes. Jarrett is black. The tweet in late May read: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

[NBC announced John McCain’s death — then abruptly cut to men kissing in dolphin masks]

ABC canceled her show a day later, and President Channing Dungey called her tweet “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.” Trump appeared to reference the cancellation days later, calling it a “double standard” for conservatives after comedian Samantha Bee made a vulgar comment about his daughter, Ivanka.

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