LOS ANGELES (AP) – Carol Burnett seeks to become the legal caregiver of her teenage granddaughter as his mother struggles with substance abuse.
The 87-year-old television comedy legend and her husband, Brian Miller, filed documents in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to arrest her 52-year-old daughter Erin Hamilton’s son Dylan.
“Because of addiction problems and other circumstances that my daughter Erin is struggling with affecting her immediate family dynamics, my husband and I have filed a petition in court to be appointed legal guardian of my 14-year-old grandson,” Burnett said. in a statement.
‘Guardianship will be for supervisory purposes concerning his health, education and well-being and is not intended to deny him nor the parents a good visit with each other. We look forward to recovery that is the next step for normalization and are currently asking for privacy to allow that process to happen. ”
Hamilton, a singer, is the youngest of Burnett’s three children, all daughters of Burnett’s second husband, TV producer Joe Hamilton. Burnett has been married since 2001 to Miller, a musician.
An email to comment to a representative for Erin Hamilton was not immediately returned.
Another of Burnett’s daughters, actor and writer Carrie Hamilton, spoke publicly about her own addiction to addiction, and her subsequent sobriety. She died in 2002 at the age of 38 of cancer.
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