There, she found a relationship with both a singer (played by Diamond Yukai also known as Yutaka Tadokoro) and a band who made it into the Tokyo pop charts Top Ten.

They appeared on five episodes of Family Feud in 1995, competing with Hamilton's husband Mark Templin and mother-in-law Dalia Ward against a team led by Betty White.

Hamilton was the inspiration for the 1983 hit single "Carrie's Gone" (number 79, Billboard), written by former boyfriend Fergie Frederiksen after they broke up and recorded by his band, LeRoux.

[citation needed] Hamilton worked with her mother to adapt Burnett's memoir, One More Time, for the stage play Hollywood Arms, but she did not live long enough to see it produced.

[3] Hamilton died from pneumonia as a complication of lung cancer that spread to her brain[3] in Los Angeles, California, on January 20, 2002, at age 38, and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

[7] On March 23, 2010, Carol Burnett participated in establishing the Anaheim University Carrie Hamilton Entertainment Institute with Anaheim University Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. David Nunan, reading this quote from Hamilton: ABOUT ART...The legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan – if even for a moment, and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...walk around the block, dazed...(I do that a lot after seeing powerful theater!)