Melissa Gilbert has strong feelings about some controversial Little House on the Prairie reunion events that took place this year.
The cast of the beloved period drama recently announced that they would no longer support or appear at fan events produced by Jack Bishop and Gravel Road Markets, and now Gilbert, who played writer Laura Ingalls Wilder on the series, is tearing into the allegedly mismanaged events.
“From what I understand, it became a waking nightmare,” Gilbert said of an event in Pennsylvania in a new interview with PEOPLE. “They ran [out of] food. He oversold tickets. He didn’t pay the vendors.”
Melissa Gilbert.
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Gilbert said that the events were “a shocking affront to the fans of Little House on the Prairie,” adding, “If I were the owner of the IP, I would be infuriated because I think it really sheds a terrible light on the brand.”
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