Melissa Gilbert reveals the real reason she left Hollywood behind

Little house on the meadow star Melissa Gilbert She opens up about the real reason she left Hollywood behind.

“I didn’t feel like this was a safe place for me to age. It’s anti-aging, which is one of my least favorite expressions in the world,” she said. Page six In an interview published on Saturday, January 25. “Anti-aging means death.”

The 60-year-old actress added that she felt a lot of pressure to “not age” and also “stay a size 2 or 4” while working in the industry.

She went on to explain how things changed for the better once she moved across the United States to Manhattan. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I better not get older!’ “Oh my God, I’m so happy to be older!” she said. “I love the age I am now. It’s been the most amazing 60 years, just to look back on all the things I’ve done and know that I’ve earned my opinions, I have value, I’m wise.

It turns out Gilbert has moved on from Hollywood in more ways than one — her next project is an Off-Broadway play Stillwhere she plays the starring role on the opposite side Mad Men Mark Moses. The play – which opens on February 6 – follows an ex-couple who reconnects after 30 years apart. Gilbert says the part gave her the opportunity to reconsider her past relationships.

“I will say that both times when I was single again, there was a weight lifted and a peace that filled my home because I didn’t have to narrow down my opinion or start an argument because I didn’t agree with it,” Gilbert admitted.

Gilbert was previously married to Bo Brinkman From 1988 to 1994. She moved out and got married Bruce Boxleitner in 1995 until their divorce in 2011. Gilbert later married her third husband, Timothy Busfieldin 2013.

Despite leaving Hollywood behind her and moving across the country, Gilbert said she still loves Los Angeles very much — something that became even more evident in the wake of this month’s devastating wildfires.

“I didn’t realize the depth of the love I had for my hometown until the bushfires,” she explained. “The number of people I know who have lost everything, not movie stars and TV stars.”

On Friday, January 24, he met several people, including former reality TV stars Heidi Monday and Spencer Pratt — I filed a lawsuit v. The City of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power (LADWP) after their homes were destroyed by wildfires that devastated parts of the greater Los Angeles area.

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“LADWP and the City of Los Angeles had a duty to properly establish, inspect, maintain and operate its water supply system,” the lawsuit states, according to Rolling Stone. “The Palisades Fire was an inevitable and unavoidable consequence of the water supply system operated by LADWP and the City of Los Angeles as planned and constructed. The system necessarily failed, and that failure was a material factor in causing Plaintiffs to suffer the losses alleged in this complaint.”

In addition to Spencer and Montag House burningSpencer’s parents, who lived nearby, also lost their home.