Here’s the Reason Why Don Knotts’s Daughter Had to Leave Her Dying Father’s Bedside

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The apple didn’t fall too far from the tree when it comes to Karen Knotts. As the daughter of a legendary comic, Karen had a lot of laughs to live up to. While she and her father, the late, great Don Knotts, didn’t always see eye to eye, they shared values and a tremendous passion for humor. A passion so great, in fact, that it would send Karen fleeing from her father’s deathbed in 2006.