Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert spoke out against child sexual abuse months before her husband, The West Wing actor Timothy Busfield, had an arrest warrant issued for alleged child sex abuse.
On Friday, Jan. 9, an arrest warrant was issued for Busfield for his alleged actions involving two 11-year-old sibling actors, whom he met on the set of the Fox series The Cleaning Lady. One of the victims alleged that incidents began when he was just 7.
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Neither Busfield, 68, nor Gilbert, 61, who have been married since 2013, has released a statement about the allegations, as of writing.
The shocking news came weeks after the former child actress sent a direct message to Megyn Kelly's remarks bout Jeffrey Epstein. On The Megyn Kelly Show, the former Fox host shared that after more emails were released, a “very close to the case” claimed that Epstein "was not a pedophile” because he was “into the barely legal type.”
“There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know? It’s just, whatever, it’s sick,” Kelly claimed. “Every time we start talking about Epstein, it makes your skin crawl, right? The whole thing is just disgusting.”
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On Nov. 15, Gilbert took to Instagram to issue a bold response to Kelly about child sex abuse.
“So, I debated posting this but, I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women’s posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to Google search myself at that age and see what came up,” the actress who played Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote. “And this is some of what I found…and now, at this age, at this time, I am actually nauseated.”
Gilbert then addressed her onscreen romance with Dean Butler, who played her husband, Almanzo Wilder, on LHOTP when he was 23 and she was 15.
“The girl on vacation in Hawaii with her family, is the same girl who was expected to [be] ‘all in love with’ and kiss a man on film who was several years older than she was. Through the lens of today, this is shocking. I have no words other than to say, ‘I WAS A CHILD.'”
To conclude the post, Gilbert credited LHOTP star Michael Landon (who directed, wrote, executive produced, and played Charles “Pa” Ingalls) and her mother for protecting her.
“‘I WAS FIFTEEN.”’ And I was the good news,” she stressed. “Thank God my mom and Michael and so many others were there to make sure I was safe. Can you imagine if I hadn’t had them all? I am so fortunate (Sort of). Many other young women aren’t. “
Gilbert signed off by declaring, “@megynkelly you need to be careful with your words.”
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available 24 hours a day through RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
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