Screen Legend Carol Burnett Showing Tough Love to Troubled Grandson as He Struggles to Stay Afloat

Just 90 miles from where comedy legend Carol Burnett lives in a palatial $8.4 million mansion, her homeless and wheelchair-bound grandson Zachary Carlson is fighting for his life in Los Angeles’ rough-and-tumble South Central neighborhood.

For the past 11 months, Carlson, 28, has endured physical assaults and repeated muggings living on the streets — all while battling painful complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and other neuropathic and musculoskeletal ailments, sources exclusively tell the National Enquirer.

Carlson details his excruciating ordeal in a GoFundMe page that respectfully doesn’t call out his famous 92-year-old grandma, who’s worth an estimated $45 million.

“I fear for my safety every day,” he says in the post, titled Zachary’s Fight Against Homelessness. “I’m living in panic right now, trying to scrounge any resources I can together, and it’s not looking good.

“I just don’t know how much more I can take. But being shuffled from shelter to shelter … I have been assaulted (more than once) and generally just living in fear daily.”

Carlson is the oldest son of Carol’s estranged daughter Erin Hamilton, 56, who has long battled substance abuse problems but now claims to be clean and sober for the past 18 months.

As Enquirer readers know, in 2020 the iconic Carol Burnett Show star and her husband, Brian Miller, gained temporary custody of Erin’s then-14-year-old son, Dylan West, after his mom was placed on a psychiatric hold following reportedly suicidal behavior.

Erin reconnected with Dylan when he turned 18 last September, but sources tell the Enquirer she’s having a tough time reconnecting with her mom.

“All it takes is one phone call from Carol to resolve Zachary’s problems, but she just doesn’t seem to care,” a second source tells the Enquirer.

“Erin and Zachary have both reached out to Carol to ask for mercy and get him some help so he can be in a safe environment.”

“But there has been no outreach or emotional support of any kind from Carol at all, zip, nada.”

Meanwhile, Zachary says he can’t crash at his mom’s place because she rents a room at a friend’s home.

“I just want to feel safe and secure,” he adds. “Without having the security of a roof over my head, the stress has gotten increasingly more difficult.”