Donna Mills, 85, Shares Why Independence Kept Her from Marriage

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Donna Mills can’t be tied down.

The “Knots Landing” alum turned OnlyFans creator, 85, revealed her reasons for never getting married on Tuesday’s episode of “Still Here Hollywood Podcast.”

“I was always so independent,” she explained to host Steve Kmetko. “I’m still very independent.”

“I just didn’t ever want to be subject to whatever you have to do when you get married,” she continued. “I also didn’t want to say I was going to love somebody forever.”

She admitted, “I don’t know if I would do that or not.”

Mills said she recently had the conversation about why she never tied the knot with her daughter, Chloe, whom she adopted in 1994 when she was 54 years old.

The actress said Chloe just got married and also gave birth, making her a grandmother. Mills joked that she wanted her grandson to call her “Glamma.”

“[Chloe] didn’t like that,” she cracked.

While the former soap star never married, she’s been in a relationship with actor Larry Gilman, 76, since 2001. Back in 2022, she explained why marriage was not in the cards for them after more than 20 years together.

“I am so freaking independent. I just am,” she again stressed in an interview with the Daily Beast, noting that both she and Gilman were already “pretty established” when they met.

“To combine everything at that point is really difficult,” she explained. “So we just combined our lives but not our finances and stuff like that. It’s much cleaner, much better.”

Mills made headlines in July when she launched her OnlyFans account at 85 years old.

She told Page Six in a statement that she had no fears over being the oldest creator on the paid subscription service known for adult content.

“Honey, I’ve been in this business over 50 years…I’ve seen every trend come and go,” she told us. “When something new comes along that lets me talk directly to the people who’ve stuck with me since ‘Knots Landing,’ why wouldn’t I jump in? My fans are going to see the real me: the good hair days, the bad hair days, and everything in between.”

“People keep asking me why now. Why not now?” she cortinued. “Life’s too short to sit on the sidelines. My fans have given me everything, and this is my way of letting them in a little closer.”

Last month, she revealed the types of requests she gets from fans, which includes workout videos.

“I do the Peloton,” she said during her appearance on “Nightline.”

“Just, you know, they’re the things of everyday life: having a cup of coffee, you know.”

But she said there’s one request she won’t fulfill.

“They say they like it when you brush your teeth … I’m not going to brush my teeth,” she said.

Though she’s not opposed to filming feet content.

“Well, you know I have a vineyard… Somebody wants me to film myself stomping the grapes,” the actress told Entertainment Tonight in August. “There are a lot of people out there who are turned on by toes, I guess.”

When asked if she would fulfill the specific request, Mills ecstatically replied, “You betcha!”

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