What Happened to Lisa Nicole Carson?
During the early part of this decade, Lisa N. Carson had the distinction of being the only African-American actress with enough steelo to star in two hit TV series — Ally McBeal and ER – simultaneously. With elegant but bit parts in The Cosby Show and Law & Order , in the 1990s, the Brooklyn, New York-born brick house known as Lisa Nicole Carson became a princess of the small screen. Her star rose higher as she was cast in feature-length films Love Jones , Jason’s Lyric , and Eve’s Bayou . But what happened to Carson, the serious character actor with a star as bright and fiery as her male counterpart, Tupac Shakur? The woman that played a then-rare-for-its-time steamy scene with Denzel Washington in Devil in a Blue Dress (“You hittin’ my spot!”) has reportedly taken time away from entertainment. The official line is that she is being “cared for by family,” due to mental health issues. Hints of Carson’s illness first surfaced in 2000 a