Why Carol Burnett Still Refuses To Watch This One Episode She Filmed In 1977

She made the world laugh for over a decade — but one night in 1977, Carol Burnett made her entire studio fall silent.
It was supposed to be just another comedy sketch. Instead, it broke her.
The cameras kept rolling. The audience didn’t laugh. The crew cried. And Carol — the woman whose face had become a symbol of joy — never watched that episode again.
Not once.
For 47 years, she’s avoided it. Not because it flopped. It didn’t. Critics called it one of the most powerful things ever shown on TV. Fans were stunned. Awards followed.
But Carol couldn’t bear to see herself in it.
She later admitted, “It was too real.”
So what happened in that sketch that haunted her for the rest of her life? And why did America’s funniest woman walk away from it forever?