Carol Burnett’s 3 Kids: Meet The Comedy Legend’s Daughters

• Carol Burnett is simply a drama fable who trailblazed a way for women successful drama pursuing her

• She became a parent 3 times successful the 1960s with her then-husband, Joe Hamilton
• She has 3 girls who each followed her steps into amusement business
• Sadly, her eldest girl died from cancer-related issues successful 2002 and her youngest suffers from substance maltreatment issues

Carol Burnett, 89, has enjoyed an illustrious career, having 5 Golden Globe Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award and Stephen Sondheim Award, and a Grammy to her name. She is admired arsenic a trailblazer for women, having been the archetypal pistillate to pb a drama assortment amusement erstwhile The Carol Burnett Show debuted successful 1967. Plus, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association created an award successful her grant successful 2018.

During Carol’s much than six outstanding decades successful the entrainment industry, she besides became a mother. She welcomed 3 girls with her ex-husband, Joe Hamilton, to whom she was joined betwixt 1963 and 1984. Read connected to larn astir Carol Burnett’s 3 daughters and her narration with them.

Carrie Hamilton

Carol Burnett Carrie Hamilton clasp (Photo: ANL/Shutterstock)

Carrie Hamilton was the firstborn girl of the Annie prima and was calved successful 1963 — the twelvemonth her parents walked down the aisle. Unfortunately, she died astatine the property of 38 successful 2002 owed to pneumonia and lung crab complications. “I deliberation of her each day. She ne'er leaves maine … I conscionable consciousness her,” Carol told PEOPLE in 2018.

While she was alive, Carrie followed her mother’s footsteps and pursued an amusement career, notably playing Reggie Higgins connected the tv bid Fame betwixt 1986 and 1987 and appearing successful immoderate of the hottest shows of the 1990s, specified arsenic The X-Files and Beverly Hills, 90210, per IMDb. She was besides a talented vocalist and joined the archetypal philharmonic circuit of Rent crossed the United States successful 1996.

Speaking of her property to PEOPLE, Carol said her firstborn was “very funny successful people” and “never met a stranger.” She added, “She besides loved to write. One clip she was successful New York and it was the winter, and stateless radical would travel up and inquire for money. She would say, ‘I’ll springiness you $10 if you archer maine your story.’ She would cod those stories and constitute astir them.”

Unfortunately, Carrie besides experienced terrible struggles with substance maltreatment erstwhile she was a teen and went to rehab 3 times earlier she was capable to get sober. “She got sober erstwhile she was 17,” Carold frankly shared with PEOPLE. “I enactment her successful a 3rd rehab place, and ohio my God, she hated me. I came to the decision that I had to emotion her capable to fto her hatred me. She got sober and we started bonding. We coiled up moving together, penning a play together. We worked unneurotic successful 3 shows.”

They notably wrote Hollywood Arms, which was a dramedy and was inspired by Carol’s beingness with her no-nonsense grandma Nanny, who she lived with successful Hollywood earlier she became a star. It was directed by Hal Prince, the Tony Award-winning manager of West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, and more, and debuted astatine New York City’s Cort Theater successful 2002, per Playbill.

Sadly, Carrie did not get to spot her hard enactment travel to fruition. “When Carrie died, I didn’t privation to get retired of furniture for a while, but I had a play to decorativeness that we started that Hal Prince was going to direct,” Carol recalled to PEOPLE. “I owed it to Carrie, and I owed it to Hal.”

Carrie is of people remembered by her mother, father, and 2 sisters. She joined writer and histrion Mark Templin successful 1994 but they divorced 4 years later. She did not person immoderate children.

Jody Hamilton

Carol Burnett blows retired the candles connected her 55th day cake, fixed to her during the taping of the ABC TV amusement ‘Superstars and Their Moms,’ with 2 of her daughters successful Los Angeles, Calif. Carrie Hamilton is to her near and Jodie Hamilton is to her close (Photo: Lennox Mclendon/AP/Shutterstock)

Jody Hamilton, Carol and Joe’s 2nd daughter, was calved successful 1967. She’s besides successful amusement concern and produced her mother’s 2001 The Carol Burnett Show tv special, Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers. She has besides dabbled successful acting, per IMDb, landing a portion successful Genesis: The Future of Mankind Is Woman, which is astir an all-female world. She presently co-hosts the authorities and popular civilization podcast, From the Bunker.

Jody joined her husband, Lonny Paul, successful Sept. 2018.

Erin Hamilton

Carol Burnett brings her girl Erin Hamilton to the 50th Annual Golden Globes successful 1993 (Photo: Bei/Shutterstock)

Carol’s youngest daughter, Erin Hamilton, was calved successful 1968. Erin took to the philharmonic broadside of the concern and became a dance-pop singer. She is astir known for her 1998 opus “Dream Weaver,” which was a screen of Gary Wright‘s 1975 hit. To enactment her young euphony career, she opened for Bette Midler and Whitney Houston, per All Music. Her debut album, One World, came retired successful 1999. She has not released thing since. In 1993, she was notably fixed the rubric of Miss Golden Globe, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Erin is the lone girl of Carol to reproduce and has 2 sons. She gave commencement to her eldest son, Zachary Carlson, successful 1997 with her ex-husband Trae Carlson, and past birthed her 2nd son, Dylan West, successful 2006 with her ex-husband Kurt West. Unfortunately, Erin has struggled with substance maltreatment issues similar her older sister, resulting successful Carol and her husband, Brian Miller, filing for impermanent guardianship of Dylan successful Aug. 2020.

“Due to addiction issues and different circumstances that my daughter, Erin, has been struggling with impacting her contiguous household dynamic, my hubby and I person petitioned the tribunal to beryllium appointed ineligible guardian of my 14-year-old grandson,” she told Page Six successful a connection astatine the time. “Guardianship volition beryllium for oversight purposes concerning his health, acquisition and payment and not intended to contradict him nor the parents due visitation with 1 another. We look guardant to betterment being the adjacent stepping chromatic towards normalization and inquire for privateness astatine this clip to let that process to occur.”

According to tribunal documents obtained by The Blast, Carol stated that Erin “suffered from terrible substance maltreatment and addiction issues” passim Dylan’s full life, which has led him to unrecorded an “unstable, unpredictable and unhealthy” life.

Carol was granted impermanent custody successful Sept. 2020.

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