“Sometimes it can be beautiful,” she says. I was in denial and would not take my medicine.” In the years that followed, she experienced more mania than depression. For the next seven years, she says, there were “too many breakdowns to count.”Ĭarson on how she felt like after first being diagnosed: It’s not anything you can imagine happening to you.” Carson had her first psychotic breakdown in 1997. “But since I had a public breakdown, it’s something I felt I had to address.” She tells PEOPLE, “When you lose your mind it’s as traumatic as it sounds.
“I don’t really have an option to be silent about my illness, although I wanted to be for many years,” Carson reveals. “I didn’t know if I was going to make it out.” “From the time I stepped away from show business until now, I’ve been on a long, very complicated and challenging journey,” says Carson. Via People Magazine: Carson speaks in depth for the first time about the bipolar diagnosis that nearly shattered her life and career. Here’s what Lisa Nicole Carson revealed to People Magazine: However, Lisa is very grateful that she was able to get answers about behaviors that she simply could not understand at that time. She also was admitted to a psychiatric ward in 2000 after having a multiple number of bipolar breakdowns on and off set.Ī bipolar diagnosis was the last thing she was expecting to hear from her doc, so it kind of slapped her across the head like a sack of bricks when she found out. She was fired from the hit show, Ally McBeal, as a result of her extreme mood swings, which devastated her. Lisa (48) learned that she is bipolar and that’s why her career has suffered over the past decade. biopic, The New Edition Story, but Lisa’s most challenging role to date has probably been her real life role of becoming an overcomer and a survivor.Īfter years of the public hearing rumors about Lisa being very temperamental and difficult to work with at times, it wasn’t until 2015, that she finally decided to speak out about a mental condition she eventually learned was the root to her behavioral outbursts in Hollywood. On her most recent roles was in BET’s N.E.
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She’s best known for her as “Josie,” who was “Nina’s” (Nia Long) best friend in the 90’s classic, Love Jones, and also for her roles on hit TV shows, including ER, Ally McBeal , as well as in films like Eve’s Bayou, Jason’s Lyric and more.
Remember actress, Lisa Nicole Carson? She’s had a successful acting career. Before finding small screen stardom, she played the doomed singer who caught the attention of Denzel Washington's private eye in the underrated "Devil in a Blue Dress" (1995) and made impressions as Nia Long's friend in "love jones" and a conquest of ladies' man Samuel L Jackson in "Eve's Bayou" (both 1997).Lisa Nicole Carson (L) and Nia Long (R) in “Love Jones” (screen-grab)
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Originally billed as Lisa Carson (she began using her full name professionally in 1995), she was a regular on the syndicated "The Apollo Comedy Hour" before making inroads on the big screen in "Let's Get Bizzee" (1993) and "Jason's Lyric" (1994).
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on the hit NBC series "ER." She found even more fame as Renee, the sassy district attorney roommate of Calista Flockhart's defense counsel in the hit Fox series "Ally McBeal," a role she played regularly from 1997 to 2001.īorn and raised in NYC, Carson honed her craft in several theatrical productions. A full-figured, multi-talented black singer-actress, Lisa Nicole Carson first impressed TV viewers in the recurring role of Carla, the restaurateur who was the sometime girlfriend of Eriq La Salle's Dr.
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