Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert set the record straight about her husband Timothy Busfield's past sexual assault allegations, in her first interview since his arrest for child sex abuse charges.
On Monday, April 6, Good Morning America paired an interview featuring Gilbert and George Stephanopoulos. The former Laura Ingalls Wilder actress revealed that she knew about two prior sexual assault allegations against Busfield—one in 1994, which he settled, and another in 2012—before they married in 2013.
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"I need to make something really abundantly clear. These allegations have been out in the ether for a very long time," Gilbert, 61, said of The West Wing actor, 68.
She continued, "When Tim and I got together, the internet existed. I didn't go into my relationship with him blind. I'm neither naive nor am I complicit. I talked to him about it. I asked him questions about it. I heard his side of the story—which no one has ever heard—which is the truth. And when the time is right, and that is not now, Tim will tell the truth of all of these past allegations when he needs to."
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Additionally, Busfield's civil attorney, Larry Stein, addressed a claim that Busfield bought holiday gifts for the two boys he allegedly abused on the set of the Fox series The Cleaning Lady.
"Tim did not give the boys gifts; Melissa gave them gifts," he said. "Melissa gave them and every other child at a Christmas party a gift—every child at the Christmas party, not treating them special or different than anyone."
Stein agreed when Stephanopoulos asked if the alleged victims' family "made it all up."
"The boys are victims in this case. They're victims of the parents, not victims of Tim," he stressed. "And when they were fired, they assumed Tim was responsible for it. The truth is, he was not."
On Feb. 10, Busfield pleaded not guilty to four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child, all third-degree felonies. The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) issued an arrest warrant for him in January for allegedly sexually abusing twin actors, 11. One of the alleged victims was just 7 when the alleged incidents began.
“They’re all lies, and I did not do anything to those little boys, and I’m gonna fight it,” Busfield said in a video released through TMZ. “I’m gonna fight it with a great team, and I’m gonna be exonerated, I know I am, because this is all so wrong and all lies.”
A trial for Busfield is set for May 2027.
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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