Melissa Gilbert now feels ‘nauseated’ by age difference with ‘Little House on the Prairie’ husband

Melissa Gilbert has a new perspective about her “Little House on the Prairie” experience.

While clapping back at Megyn Kelly’s recent comments about late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the actress, now 61, reflected on the 8-year age difference between herself and Dean Butler, who played her on-screen love interest in the NBC series.

“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,” Gilbert wrote on Instagram on Saturday, alongside photos of her younger self.

“And this is some of what I found…and now, at this age, at this time, I am actually nauseated,” the actress added. “The girl on vacation in Hawaii with her family, is the same girl who was expected to ‘fall in love with’ and kiss a man on film who was several years older than she was.”

Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on the 1970s/1980s TV program, wrote that “through the lens of today, this is shocking.”

“I have no words other than to say, ‘I WAS A CHILD.’ ‘I WAS FIFTEEN,'” she added. “And I was the good news.”