Melissa Gilbert has “Little Home on the Prairie” reunion with on-screen sister Melissa Sue Anderson: ‘So pleased’

• Melissa Gilbert revealed that she's been "catching up" with Melissa Sue Anderson.
• The actress mentioned that she's shared "plenty of laugher and some tears" along with her Little Home on the Prairie sister.
• Gilbert beforehand mentioned that there was a "coldness" to her former costar.

The Ingalls ladies are again collectively.

Melissa Gilbert introduced that she just lately reunited with Melissa Sue Anderson 4 many years after they costarred as sisters on Little Home on the Prairie.

"Worlds collide. Blessings abound," Gilbert started in an Instagram publish Saturday. "Hearts heal and reunite. Magic occurs."

The actress defined that she had a "secret" that she has been "protecting near my coronary heart for some time now" as she shared a photograph of herself, her Pen Buddies costar Veanne Cox, Tony winner Betty Buckley, and Anderson.

"Reconnection with a sister," Gilbert wrote. "Lengthy, therapeutic talks. A lot of reminiscing. A lot of catching up. A lot of laughter and some tears. I’m so pleased to have Melissa Anderson again in my life."

Gilbert defined what makes her relationship with Anderson particular. "We share such an essential historical past that nobody else on earth really understands," she wrote. "Simply us Ingalls ladies. The perfect half is, the previous is now simply that and we are able to transfer ahead because the sisters/pals we at all times wished to be. What an exquisite Christmas present."

Gilbert portrayed protagonist Laura Ingalls on all 9 seasons of Little Home, whereas Anderson portrayed her older sister, Mary, on the primary seven seasons of the present (and later guested on season 8).

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Each actresses have beforehand alluded to a considerably chilly relationship relationship again to their time as youngster actors. "I actually don’t have a whole lot of recollections of the 2 of us," Anderson instructed The Atlanta Journal-Structure in 2010. "We have been very, very completely different."

Gilbert mentioned her recollection of working with Anderson in her 2009 memoir Prairie Story.

"We performed sisters and have been solely a pair years aside in age, however from the beginning, for no matter purpose, we by no means had an actual sisterly kinship," she wrote. "There was a distance to her, a coldness, although typically I’m wondering if it was simply that I by no means knew find out how to get her to let me in. She wasn’t simple to get together with. I feel her reserve got here throughout on-screen and was actually obvious offscreen, whereas I wore my feelings as in the event that they have been a neon inexperienced T-shirt that glowed at midnight."

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The actress additionally mentioned that one episode of Little Home benefited from a "competitiveness that existed off digicam between Melissa Sue Anderson and me," noting that "after we snapped at one another" within the ep, "it was pretty actual."

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