Carol Burnett, 87, is seeking care of teen granddaughter

At 87, TV comedy legend Carol Burnett would be able to relax and enjoy her sunny years. Instead, she found that she could not get over the trouble with her family members’ drug use.

Burnett and her husband, Brian Miller, have filed documents to become the caretaker of their 13-year-old granddaughter because her daughter, Erin Hamilton, 52, is unable to care for him, and people and other outdoor stores report.

“Throughout her adult life, and since Dylan’s birth, Erin has suffered from serious drug and substance abuse issues,” Burnett said in the submission, according to The Blast. Singer Erin Hamilton has been institutionalized eight times, and in July attempted suicide, court records show.

Sure, Burnett needs to see the history of her family repeat when she asks the court to take care of her temporarily for her granddaughter.

Burnett told NPR in 2013 that she was raised primarily by her grandmother, Mabel White, because her mother and father fought alcoholism. She said her parents left her with her grandmother in Texas when they moved to Hollywood “to make it big.” After her parents divorced, Burnett and her grandmother would move west to be with her mother, but Burnett said she remained in her grandmother’s care even though her mother lived in the same apartment building.

“Mom didn’t start drinking until later,” Burnett said in the interview. ‘And she did not live with her father at the time, but she started pregnant in her 30s. And she was drunk on average. She could really get angry and mean and angry. ”

Burnett would find that addiction runs in families when Carrie Hamilton, the eldest of her three daughters, began abusing drugs as a teenager. At the time, Burnett was a television and movie star, most notably through her iconic, hour-long variety show, “The Carol Burnett Show,” which ran from 1967 to 1978.

In an interview with People in 2016, Burnett said she underwent three years of “hell” when Carrie was “in drugs.” Burnett said she “threw” Carrie into rehab when she was just 17 years old.

“I put her in a third rehab place, and oh my God, she hated me.” Burnett told People. “I came to the conclusion that I had to love her enough to make her hate me.”

Carrie’s drug problems were cited as a factor in Burnett’s 1984 divorce from Carrie’s father, producer Joe Hamilton, who was Burnett’s second husband. Carrie eventually became sober, and she and Burnett enjoyed a close bond, which included the two collaborating on various shows, People reported. Carrie died in 2002 at the age of 38 from complications related to lung cancer.

“I think of her every day,” Burnett told People. “She never leaves me … I just feel her.”

Burnett is now facing a crisis involving Erin, her second daughter, and Erin’s son. The boy’s father, Kurt West, is also thought to be unable to care for Dylan because he recently checked himself on rehab, Burnett explained in the submission.

“Dylan’s living environment has long been unstable, unpredictable and unhealthy for a child,” Burnett said. She also revealed that the local department of children and family services had investigated his life situation, which resulted in procedures for juvenile dependence in 2018 and 2019. ”

The most recent crisis involved a suicide attempt by Erin Hamilton in July, Burnett revealed in her custody of court. Burnett said she called Los Angeles police to conduct a welfare check on her daughter, who was placed on a 5150 handgun for “suicide and drug use,” according to court documents.