Brave Stars Who Battle Mental Illness: Ben Affleck, Roseanne Barr

The comedian said her mental illness stems from childhood when her mother hired their abusive German neighbor into their home in Salt Lake City.

“He used to torture me every day,” Roseanne Barr recalled. “I’d come home and tell my mother, ‘He’s hitting me, he locked me in his garage’ … And my mother would go, ‘You’re making this up.’ That’s how you get multiple personality disorder.”

The names of her different identities: Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Somebody, Joey, Heather, Roger, Kevin, Evangelina, Vangie, Martha, Mother, Piggy, F—–, Bambi, Rosey, Roseanne, ONE.

At 16, her parents admitted her into a psychiatric facility in Utah for eight months because they thought she was “out of control.”

Said Barr, now 71, “I was tranquilized. I was in a stupor.”