"The reason I opened my big fat mouth, was because someone else opened hers," Gilbert tells PEOPLE Melissa Gilbert speaks out about the things that are important to her. After making headlines for her recent comments reacting to Megyn Kelly's tweet about the Little House on the Prairie reboot,

I love the age I am right now,” she tells us. “Sixty has been the most incredible year, just to look back on all the things I’ve done and to know that I’ve earned my

TV’s original Laura Ingalls is speaking out about Netflix’s plans to reboot Little House on the Prairie. In an interview with EW, Melissa Gilbert, aka the Laura in the long-running NBC series from 1974-1984,

The final installment of 'Little House on the Prairie' saw the town of Walnut Grove left as rubble — the result of what she claims was a "disrespectful" move by NBC towards Landon

Melissa Gilbert is reflecting on the literally explosive ending of Little House on the Prairie in the TV movie Little House: The Late Farewell 41 years later. In the TV movie, the people of Walnut Grove fought against a tycoon and ultimately detonated explosives in the buildings as the Ingalls family watched.