Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
No question about it: I just didn't want the disease - but I definitely needed to hear about it.
Rich is not better.
Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.
When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.
You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
Nell grew up singing with her family in her church choir, and began her career singing on the gospel circuit.
Nell performed a show-stopping rendition of 'Never Had A Friend Like Me', from the Walt Disney animated film Aladdin, at The 65th Annual Academy Awards show in 1992.
Nell appeared on various gameshows in the late 1980s, in hopes of being noticed for television sitcoms and movies. She was on Match Game and To Tell The Truth.
Nell appeared alongside Bette Davis in the musical production of Miss Moffat, based on the movie that Davis starred in, The Corn Is Green. The show closed before it made it to Broadway.
Nell headlined in a multi-racial production of Hello Dolly, in 1991.
Nell was a television spokesperson for 'Liberty Medical Supplies' in 2001.
Nell appears on the CD-ROM game 'You Don't Know Jack'.
Nell was a bi-sexual, a fact not many people knew until after she passed away. Her life partner at the time of her death was Ann Kasen.
At the time of her death, Carter had been rehearsing for a production of A Raisin in the Sun in Long Beach, California and filming a movie, Swing.
Carter died from heart disease complicated by diabetes and obesity in 2003.
Nell declared bankruptcy in 1995, 1.4 million in debt and 1.1 million behind in back taxes. She filed again in 2002.
She had divorced Krynicki in 1992.
Her brother Bernard died of AIDS in 1989.
She attempted suicide in the early 1980s.
She earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in Gimme a break!
She broke into stardom in the musical Ain't Misbehavin, for which she won a Tony Award in 1978.
Born Nell Ruth Hardy to Horace and Edna May Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama.
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