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Carol Burnett, 89, has loved an illustrious profession, having 5 Golden Globe Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Particular Tony Award and Stephen Sondheim Award, and a Grammy to her identify. She is admired as a trailblazer for girls, having been the primary feminine to steer a comedy selection present when The Carol Burnett Present debuted in 1967. Plus, the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation created an award in her honor in 2018. And in 2024, she might be a presenter on the Emmy Awards on Monday, January 15.
Her unimaginable skilled life — and her ninetieth birthday — had been beforehand celebrated on the Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love particular on April 26, 2023. It was a star-studded affair, with the likes of Cher, Charlize Theron and Dolly Parton exhibiting as much as honor their icon and inspiration. “I used to be fairly gobsmacked by the entire thing,” Carol stated concerning the particular, per NBC. “It was nearly surreal at occasions.”
Throughout Carol’s greater than six excellent many years within the entertaiment trade, she additionally grew to become a mom. She welcomed three women together with her ex-husband, Joe Hamilton, to whom she was married between 1963 and 1984. Learn on to find out about Carol Burnett’s three daughters and her relationship with them.
Carrie Hamilton
Carrie Hamilton was the firstborn daughter of the Annie star and was born in 1963 — the 12 months her mother and father walked down the aisle. Sadly, she died on the age of 38 in 2002 on account of pneumonia and lung most cancers issues. “I consider her day-after-day. She by no means leaves me … I simply really feel her,” Carol informed PEOPLE in 2018.
Whereas she was alive, Carrie adopted her mom’s footsteps and pursued an leisure profession, notably taking part in Reggie Higgins on the tv collection Fame between 1986 and 1987 and showing in a few of the hottest reveals of the Nineties, similar to The X-Information and Beverly Hills, 90210, per IMDb. She was additionally a proficient vocalist and joined the primary musical tour of Lease throughout the US in 1996.
Talking of her character to PEOPLE, Carol stated her firstborn was “very considering folks” and “by no means met a stranger.” She added, “She additionally beloved to put in writing. One time she was in New York and it was the winter, and homeless folks would come up and ask for cash. She would say, ‘I’ll provide you with $10 for those who inform me your story.’ She would acquire these tales and write about them.”
Sadly, Carrie additionally skilled extreme struggles with substance abuse when she was a teen and went to rehab thrice earlier than she was in a position to get sober. “She obtained sober when she was 17,” Carold frankly shared with PEOPLE. “I put her in a 3rd rehab place, and oh my God, she hated me. I got here to the conclusion that I needed to love her sufficient to let her hate me. She obtained sober and we began bonding. We wound up working collectively, writing a play collectively. We labored collectively in three reveals.”
They notably wrote Hollywood Arms, which was a dramedy and was impressed by Carol’s life together with her no-nonsense grandmother Nanny, who she lived with in Hollywood earlier than she grew to become a star. It was directed by Hal Prince, the Tony Award-winning director of West Aspect Story, The Phantom of the Opera, and extra, and debuted at New York Metropolis’s Cort Theater in 2002, per Playbill.
Sadly, Carrie didn’t get to see her exhausting work come to fruition. “When Carrie died, I didn’t wish to get off the bed for some time, however I had a play to complete that we began that Hal Prince was going to direct,” Carol recalled to PEOPLE. “I owed it to Carrie, and I owed it to Hal.”
Carrie is after all remembered by her mom, father, and two sisters. She married author and actor Mark Templin in 1994 however they divorced 4 years later. She didn’t have any youngsters.
Jody Hamilton
Jody Hamilton, Carol and Joe’s second daughter, was born in 1967. She’s additionally in present enterprise and produced her mom’s 2001 The Carol Burnett Present tv particular, Carol Burnett: Present Stoppers. She has additionally dabbled in performing, per IMDb, touchdown an element in Genesis: The Way forward for Mankind Is Girl, which is about an all-female world. She at present co-hosts the politics and popular culture podcast, From the Bunker.
Jody married her husband, Lonny Paul, in Sept. 2018.
Erin Hamilton
Carol’s youngest daughter, Erin Hamilton, was born in 1968. Erin took to the musical facet of the enterprise and have become a dance-pop singer. She is most identified for her 1998 track “Dream Weaver,” which was a canopy of Gary Wright‘s 1975 hit. To assist her younger music profession, she opened for Bette Midler and Whitney Houston, per All Music. Her debut album, One World, got here out in 1999. She has not launched something since. In 1993, she was notably given the title of Miss Golden Globe, in line with The Hollywood Reporter.
Erin is the one daughter of Carol to breed and has two sons. She gave delivery to her eldest son, Zachary Carlson, in 1997 together with her ex-husband Trae Carlson, after which birthed her second son, Dylan West, in 2006 together with her ex-husband Kurt West. Sadly, Erin has struggled with substance abuse points like her older sister, leading to Carol and her husband, Brian Miller, submitting for momentary guardianship of Dylan in Aug. 2020.
“As a consequence of dependancy points and different circumstances that my daughter, Erin, has been combating impacting her instant household dynamic, my husband and I’ve petitioned the court docket to be appointed authorized guardian of my 14-year-old grandson,” she informed Web page Six in a press release on the time. “Guardianship might be for oversight functions regarding his well being, training and welfare and never meant to disclaim him nor the mother and father correct visitation with each other. We look ahead to restoration being the subsequent stepping stone in direction of normalization and ask for privateness right now to permit that course of to happen.”
In accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by The Blast, Carol acknowledged that Erin “suffered from extreme substance abuse and dependancy points” all through Dylan’s total life, which has led him to dwell an “unstable, unpredictable and unhealthy” life.
Carol was granted momentary custody in Sept. 2020.