What motivated Melissa Gilbert to write the book Prairie Tale?”
‘Little House’ star reveals her life in fast lane Five years sober, Melissa Gilbert talks about alcoholism, rocky relationships For nine years, the world knew Melissa Gilbert as her “Little House on the Prairie” character — pious 19th-century farmer’s daughter Laura Ingalls. But behind the bonnet and braids she wore on the small screen, Gilbert was living the Hollywood fast life. In her tell-all memoir, “Prairie Tale,” Gilbert recounts her real-life drama. She had three nose jobs by the time she was 20 years old; she had steamy trysts with Hollywood playboys and rock stars; she struggled with drugs and alcoholism. Gilbert also writes about an unplanned pregnancy with Brat Packer Rob Lowe, and the painful consequences she faced. Now a 45-year-old mother of two, Gilbert told TODAY’s Erin Burnett Tuesday in New York that she is comfortable with who she is and can look back at her life experience without shame. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here Click Here! “Everything, no
