Verna Carter was the subject of a 2012 episode of Hoarders, described in the episode synopsis as a "hot-headed ex-cop, ex-drug trafficker, and ex-prison inmate who has cleverly evaded laws against hoarding by arguing that her hoard was her artistic expression." When she was admitted to the hospital to treat a health ailment, Carter was told that she wouldn't be released unless her house was completely cleaned out of all the stuff she'd hoarded over the years.

Agreeing to let Hoarders help, Carter was apparently dissatisfied by what took place. One of her neighbors wrote about the experience for Patch, and quoted Carter complaining that the Hoarders cleanup was never finished because "they just ran out of trucks."

Two months after filming ended, the neighbor noted, cleanup crews were reportedly still hauling stuff out of Carter's house, with plenty more work yet to be done. Carter admitted that her particular situation may have actually been beyond the scope of Hoarders. "Truthfully, they did not realize how much stuff there was at my house," she shared. "I feel that if they had gone in beforehand and seen how it was, they would have said 'no.'"