Editing Nell Carter (section)

==Personal life==
Carter attempted suicide in the early 1980s, and around 1985 she entered a drug-detoxification facility to break a longstanding cocaine addiction. Her brother Bernard died of complications from AIDS in 1989.<ref name="gold"/>

Carter married mathematician and lumber executive George Krynicki, and she converted to [[Judaism]] in 1982.<ref name=jweekly/><ref name=diesat54/> She filed for divorce from Krynicki in 1989 and the divorce was finalized in 1992.

Carter had three children: daughter Tracy and sons Joshua and Daniel. She adopted both Joshua and Daniel as newborns over a four-month period. She attempted to adopt twice more, but both adoptions failed. In her first attempt, she allowed a young pregnant woman to move into her home with the plan that she would adopt the child, but the mother decided to keep the baby. Carter also had three miscarriages.<ref name="gold" />

In 1992, Carter had surgery to repair two aneurysms. She married Roger Larocque in June 1992<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7kDAAAAMBAJ&q=Nell+Carter+George+Krynicki&pg=PA34| title=Nell Carter's Wedding| journal=Jet| page=34| date=June 22, 1992| volume=82| number=9| via=Google Books}}</ref> but divorced him the next year. Carter declared bankruptcy in 1995 and again in 2002.<ref name="gold" />