Lynda Carter Became an Alcoholic After Wonder Woman
Despite being one of the world’s most beautiful women and the highest-paid actress on television, actress Lynda Carter became an alcoholic after her starring role on ABC’s “Wonder Woman†ended in 1979.
The combination of the show ending after five years of regular work coupled with the typecasting that limited Carter to acting roles in mediocre programs, helped increase her drinking.
A Marriage Distintegrates
By 1982, Carter’s five-year marriage to business manager Ron Samuels had fallen apart, in large part due to her drinking. She later admitted that drinking was a way of avoiding what she called “emotional difficulties†related to the marriage. After the couple divorced, Carter married investment banker Robert Altman on January 29, 1984.
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