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Lauren Chapin, who is best known for her role as the youngest child Kathy Anderson in the television show "Father Knows Best," had a troubled childhood.

Chapin made a lasting impression on millions of television viewers when she was a little girl.

But her life went into a tailspin after "Father Knows Best" ended in 1960.

"I couldn't get a job. I'd been typecast as Kathy Anderson. The more I didn't work, the more my mother drank and the more belligerent I became.

I started running away from home.

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I became an incorrigible child," she said in a 1983 interview.

Lauren Chapin in 1977 | Photo: Wikimedia Commons

"I want to be married, have the piece of paper, the ring on the finger and have a neat partnership."

Chapin dropped out of secondary school and was hitched at age 16.

Within two years, she separated from her husband, and they divorced five years later.

The former child actress became a drug addict. S