Donna Mills breaks her silence on why she left KL in 1989: It was the writers' fault!

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Actress Donna Mills, 84, sat down for an interview, and after 36 years of leaving 'Knots Landing' in 1989, the actress has finally 'broken her silence' on why she left the series after a decade. She thought the writers weren't writing her character very well at that point, and that's why she left.

Mills said, "You pretty much rely on the writers, and it's actually one of the reasons I left when I did."

She continued, "I just didn't think the writers at that time…eight, nine years of creating this character, for the writers, it got to be 'Oh god, what are we gonna do with her next?' and I felt like they'd kind of run out. I didn't want to see the character go downhill. And that's why I left. I wanted to go out with Abby at the top when she's at her best. I don't want to see her go downhill, so that was why I left the show. It all hinged on the writing."

Mills did praise the writers who were creating the show "at the beginning." She thought they "were fabulous," but by her ninth season, she thought the quality had gone way down, and she would never have left otherwise.

"If I felt that, you know, either they were getting new writers or they had some wonderful ideas, I would've stayed. It wasn't about money…I loved that character and I didn't want her to kind of fritter away," said Mills.