Life’s second act may be even better for Carter: “This is an exciting chapter in my life,” she says. “It feels like discovery, it makes me curious, it opens up a new outlook. I think I sing better—not necessarily perfectly, but I get it. Unless you’re giving

a part of yourself away [in song], it doesn’t mean anything.”

 

his London West End production of “Chicago.” Out of that grew her one-woman show.

“This is an exciting chapter in my life,” she says. “It feels like discovery, it makes me curious, it opens up a new outlook. I think I sing better—not necessarily perfectly, but I get it. Unless you’re giving a part of

yourself away [in song], it doesn’t mean anything.”

Giving and Receiving Help
and Health
A vision of great health, the
mature but still vibrant Carter
says she has learned “only one
sweeping statement in life:
When you learn to give and

extend your hand to others, it’s the secret to happiness.”

An Arizona native, Carter grew up knowing the power of giving, but it wasn’t until her 40s and 50s that she fully grasped the healing power of reaching out and receiving help for her alcoholism. She began drinking during her first marriage to escape unhappiness,

PHOTOS: KEITH MUN YAN