European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Growing up amid poverty neurotics and love byjoe Hanauer United press International Arol Burnett. The child of alcoholic divorced parents was brought up in a squalid one room apartment by a manipulative hypochondriac Christian Scie tial grandmother who was on welfare and look out her false Teeth to amuse her granddaughter. Her grandmother and her Mother who lived Down the Hall in a rundown building in Hollywood Bat i led a great Deal. Her Molher had an legitimate child when Carol was b. The father a married Man walked away. Burnett s own father a Sweet Defeated Man was t around much and died in a Charity Hospital did she have an unhappy childhood no Carol Burnett says today it was not a pleasant childhood Burnett said. There Are some that were happier and some that have been really miserable mine was not  she has recorded the Story of her childhood from her earliest memories in san Antonio Texas to the move to Hollywood and her Hie there to her Early Showbiz years in her Book one Mora time random House. Ii is a rank strangely cheerful account of a distressing childhood that ends happily when the comedienne was 26 and on her Way to stardom. She explained Why she looks Back wifi fondness on that childhood in a chaotic room amid her grandmother s compulsive clutter with clothes hanging from All the furniture. First of Alt i was loved. And i loved Nanny her grandmother and mama and daddy. Certainly i was not abused then All my friends had something like my life. My Best Girlfriend lived with her grandmother her parents were divorced and most everybody in that neighbourhood was on Relief. I was the depression there were two Hinds of people us and the people in the movies. I