The protagonist of series such as Miami Vice he said during his performance on the show Late Night with Seth Meyers that he took Dakota off the family’s “payroll” when she refused to go to college.
“We have a rule in the family that, you know, if you stay in school, you can stay on the payroll; When you go to college, you can stay on the payroll. Towards the end of high school, I went up to her and said, “So do you want to attend some colleges?” Or something. And she replied, ‘Oh no. I’m not going to college, ” said Don Johnson.
Given his eldest daughter’s refusal to continue college, the actor had no choice but to warn him he would stop supporting her. But he didn’t have the cunning of Dakota, who replied, “Don’t worry about that.”