NEED TO KNOW
- Melissa Gilbert spoke out in opposition to Megyn Kelly’s feedback about convicted baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein
- Kelly seemingly questioned whether or not Epstein was a pedophile as a result of, to her information, he solely preferred women of their teenagers
- Gilbert posted photographs of herself on Little Home on the Prairie when she was 15 together with her older love curiosity performed by Dean Butler, writing in her caption, “I’m truly nauseated”
Melissa Gilbert is talking out in opposition to Megyn Kelly’s latest feedback about convicted baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The actress, 61, participated within the #iWasFifteen hashtag pattern, in response to Kelly seemingly questioning whether or not Epstein was a pedophile as a result of, to Kelly’s information, he solely preferred women of their teenagers. The pattern includes girls sharing photographs of themselves once they have been 15 years previous.
Kelly, on the Nov. 12 episode of her Sirius XM program The Megyn Kelly Present, claimed that Epstein “was into the hardly authorized sort.”
The political commentator, 54, then stated, “He preferred 15-year-old women. And I notice that is disgusting. I am positively not attempting to make an excuse for this. I am simply providing you with information, that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds.”
“However he preferred the very younger teen varieties that might go for even youthful than they have been, however would look authorized to a passerby,” Kelly continued, earlier than later including, “There is a distinction between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, ?”
Gilbert shared in a Nov. 15 Instagram put up that after coming throughout many posts within the #iWasFifteen hashtag pattern, she determined to look herself up at 15 years previous on Google.
When she did so, she noticed photographs of herself on Little Home on the Prairie together with her older love curiosity performed by Dean Butler, now 69.
She posted photographs of herself, on the younger age, being embraced by and kissing Butler on the tv present in a carousel that additionally included a photograph of herself on trip.
“I’m truly nauseated,” Gilbert wrote, partly, within the put up’s caption. “The lady on trip in Hawaii together with her household, is similar lady who was anticipated to ‘fall in love with’ and kiss a person on movie who was a number of years older than she was. By the lens of in the present day, that is surprising. I’ve no phrases aside from to say, ‘I WAS A CHILD.’ ‘I WAS FIFTEEN.’ And I used to be the excellent news.”
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Gilbert wrote that she’s grateful for Michael Landon — who directed, produced and starred within the fashionable collection — her mom and “so many others” as a result of they have been “there to ensure I used to be protected.”
“Are you able to think about if I hadn’t had all of them? I’m so lucky (Type of). Many different younger girls aren’t. @megynkelly you should watch out along with your phrases,” the actress stated.
Talking with ipromiseyoumedia in 2024 on the Little Home on the Prairie fiftieth Anniversary Solid Reunion and Competition, Butler stated he wished he was nearer in age to Gilbert once they have been filming.
Their characters, Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder, met within the sixth season of the present, when Butler was 23 and Gilbert was 15. Later that season, their characters shared their first on-screen kiss.
“I’ve typically stated to Melissa, ‘I want we may have been slightly nearer in age after we have been doing this.’ However that is not the way in which it actually occurred. Laura was 10 years youthful than Almanzo. However from the angle of taking part in it, I assumed, would not or not it’s nice if we may have [had] … slightly extra frequent floor, so we might’ve been in a position to play the loving facet of this in maybe slightly bit extra attention-grabbing method,” Butler stated.
Gilbert additionally criticized Kelly in January, when the political commentator wrote of the present’s upcoming Netflix reboot on X, “@Netflix in case you wokeify Little Home on the Prairie I’ll make it my singular mission to utterly smash your undertaking.”
Gilbert responded on Threads, telling Kelly to “watch any episode on any streaming platform wherever on this planet.”
“Ummm…watch the unique once more,” Gilbert wrote in a press release. “TV doesn’t get an excessive amount of extra ‘woke’ than we did. We tackled: racism, dependancy, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and each different ‘woke ‘ matter you may consider. Thanks very a lot.”
