Carol Burnett FAMILY TRAGEDY

AT 87, THE COMEDY LEGEND STEPS IN TO KEEP HER YOUNG GRANDSON SAFE AS HER DAUGHTER ERIN BATTLES ADDICTION.

- 

EIGHTEEN years after she lost her eldest daughter, Carol Burnett is still picking up the pieces. “I think of her every day,” the comedy legend recently said of her beloved Carrie, who succumbed to pneumonia at age 38, sober after a years-long struggle with drugs. “She never leaves me.”

Now, at age 87, Carol finds herself forced to intervene in the face of another child’s heartbreaking addiction. On Sept. 1, the funny lady and her husband, drummer Brian Miller, were granted temporary custody of her daughter