The longtime actor, known for his role in “Roseanne,” once told Garden & Gun magazine “he’d kind of had it with showbusiness and the publicity.”
“I wanted to get away from Los Angeles. The options were St. Louis or New Orleans,” Goodman, 71 and a native of Missouri, said, adding that he also wanted to get his child away from that world.“We got as far as buying land in St. Louis. But Anna Beth started designing a house that got to be the size of Buckingham Palace and I said, ‘This ain’t gonna work out.’ So we chucked it and bought a haunted house [in Old Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans] instead.
“My first house in New Orleans … and I don’t believe in this stuff … but I think we lived in a haunted house,” Goodman said. “There was just too many unexplained things that went on in this place. Plus, it just emanated bad vibes.”“I’m a real skeptic, but I heard stuff that’s unexplainable and other people had experiences,” he added. “My daughter used to play bells in the Isidore Newman School band and she practiced this one song over and over.
Known for his roles in the television series “Roseanne” and the film “Argo,” Goodman purchased the home for $1.8 million at the time from Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails.Reznor had owned the residence for 10 years, property records show. Goodman made the purchase through a trust. New Orleans has referred to Goodman as one “of their adoptive sons,” and his love for the city strengthened over time.“It all started in 1972. I came down for Mardi Gras with a group of Sig Eps from Missouri — I went to what’s now called Missouri State. I just flipped for the city, and I’m too lazy to define what it is, exactly. After that, every time I’d get a couple of bucks, I’d go down.
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