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Hard Times While Growing Up

There is a plethora of actors who had to overcome a lot of adversity to get to the acting pinnacle. These adversities can range from a multitude of things such as being homeless and having to figure that out or even being abused by parents. The latter of those possibilities is what happened with Knotts.

He was raised in Morgantown, Washington Virginia. This was a poverty struck place and Knotts was the son of an alcoholic. No jokes here: Knotts’ father would a hold a knife to his throat. For what reason, we do not know but that is not an environment a child should be growing up in.