{"id":2300061,"date":"2026-02-25T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2300061"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:39:43","slug":"the-heartbreaking-reason-er-star-kellie-martin-wouldnt-let-her-mom-watch-her-final-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-heartbreaking-reason-er-star-kellie-martin-wouldnt-let-her-mom-watch-her-final-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heartbreaking Reason ER Star Kellie Martin Wouldn’t Let Her Mom Watch Her Final Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

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February 10 and 17, 2000, were the days when 30 million “ER” viewers suffered two of the biggest shocks the iconic medical drama on NBC<\/a> ever delivered. Kellie Martin<\/a>‘s sweet and innocent character Lucy Knight<\/a> gets stabbed (alongside Noah Wyle<\/a>‘s Dr. Carter<\/a>) by a patient (played harrowingly well by David Krumholtz<\/a>) and dies from her injuries. On the day her last episode was airing, according to the two-parter’s oral history in Entertainment Weekly, Martin called her husband in Los Angeles to ask him to go over to her parents’ house and make sure her mother didn’t watch the episode.<\/p>\n

She said, “Less…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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February 10 and 17, 2000, were the days when 30 million “ER” viewers suffered two of the biggest shocks the iconic medical drama on NBC ever delivered. Kellie Martin‘s sweet and innocent character Lucy Knight gets stabbed (alongside Noah Wyle‘s Dr. Carter) by a patient (played harrowingly well by David Krumholtz) and dies from her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2300061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Heartbreaking-Reason-ER-Star-Kellie-Martin-Wouldnt-Let-Her.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300064,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300061\/revisions\/2300064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}