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<\/figure>\nFor generations of Americans, Carol Burnett meant laughter.<\/p>\n
One tug of the ear. One unforgettable expression. One outrageous sketch.<\/p>\n
And suddenly millions of people sitting in their living rooms were laughing along with her.<\/p>\n
But behind one of television\u2019s most famous smiles was a chapter of Carol\u2019s life that was anything but funny.<\/p>\n
It involved her daughter,\u00a0Carrie Hamilton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Carrie was Carol\u2019s oldest daughter with television producer Joe Hamilton, and their relationship went through extraordinarily difficult years.<\/p>\n As a teenager, Carrie struggled with drug addiction.<\/p>\n For Carol, watching her daughter go through it was terrifying.<\/p>\n She later spoke candidly about having to make difficult decisions as a mother, including refusing to enable Carrie\u2019s addiction even when doing so threatened their relationship.<\/p>\n Eventually, Carrie got sober.<\/p>\n And something beautiful happened.<\/p>\n Mother and daughter found their way back to each other.<\/p>\n Carrie became an actress, singer and writer, and she and Carol eventually became creative collaborators as well as mother and daughter.<\/p>\n Then came news no parent wants to hear.<\/p>\n Carrie was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n She died in January 2002.<\/p>\n She was only 38 years old.<\/p>\n For Carol, the loss was unimaginable.<\/p>\n Years later, she continued speaking about Carrie with extraordinary affection.<\/p>\n One of the memories Carol has shared is particularly powerful.<\/p>\n During Carrie\u2019s illness, Carol asked her how she managed to remain so cheerful.<\/p>\n Carrie\u2019s answer stayed with her: every day she woke up and decided that she was going to love her life.<\/p>\n Carol never forgot those words.<\/p>\n And she never forgot Carrie.<\/p>\n Even after decades of television appearances, awards and audiences telling Carol how much happiness she brought into their homes, there was always another story behind that famous smile.<\/p>\n A mother\u2019s story.<\/p>\n A story of fear, difficult choices, reconciliation and ultimately heartbreaking loss.<\/p>\n Carol Burnett spent generations making America laugh.<\/p>\n But perhaps one of the most revealing things about her isn\u2019t how easily she could make an audience smile.<\/p>\n It\u2019s how she found the strength to keep smiling herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For generations of Americans, Carol Burnett meant laughter. One tug of the ear. One unforgettable expression. One outrageous sketch. And suddenly millions of people sitting in their living rooms…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}