Actress Melissa Gilbert, who found her fame on the drama series Little House on the Prairie as a child star, once miscarried the child with actor Rob Lowe, the 44-year-old star revealed in her tell-all memoir Prairie Tales.
The actress met the ageing hunk when she was just 14 and fell “hopelessly and stupidly in love,” and agreed to marry the actor when he proposed in 1986. But, in Prairie Tales, Gilbert talks about her heartache when she suffered a miscarriage after a nervous Lowe called off their romance.
After telling Lowe she was pregnant with his child, she tells People magazine, “He said very softly, ‘I can’t be a father.’ Before I could respond, he said, ‘I can’t be a husband. I’m so sorry.’”
However the worst was yet to come – when Gilbert lost the child.
She adds, “I had lost my baby and my relationship with Rob… and it hurt like hell.”
In Prairie Tales, Gilbrert also talked about her grow-up, alcoholic addiction among other things. Read snippets on MSNBC, or buy a copy of Prairie Tale: A Memoir
