Donna Mills, the 85-year-old actress best known for playing Abby Cunningham on Knots Landing, has clapped back at a critic who told her she wore 'too much makeup for your age.' In a tongue-in-cheek video posted on social media, Mills appeared in a black leather jacket with her signature blonde hair in loose waves before transforming into a deliberately 'aged-up' version of herself with grey hair, glasses, and a high-neck blouse.
'I guess I didn't get the memo,' she quipped, before adding, 'Did you want me to look like this?' She captioned the post with the hashtags #style, #aging, #makeup, #clapback, and #armchairwarrior. Fans rushed to support her, with comments such as 'You are ageless! They wish they were you' and 'They are jealous Donna. You always look very classy.'
Mills, who first rose to fame in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me, became a household name on the Dallas spin-off Knots Landing, which ran from 1979 to 1993. She left the series in 1989 but continued a successful career in television movies. Late last year, she revealed in an interview that she had experienced a scary encounter with a male stalker who had escaped from prison, prompting police to advise her to leave town. The man was later found and shot dead by police.
In the same interview, Mills explained why she never married, saying she valued her independence too much. 'I was always so independent, I'm still very independent,' she said. 'I just didn't want to ever be subject to anybody else's… you know, whatever you have to do when you get married.'
