Melissa Gilbert helps Jason Bateman after he stated he was hazed on “Little Home on the Prairie”: ‘#iwillcutabitch’

Don't mess with Half Pint!

Melissa Gilbert, the actress who portrayed the beloved character of Laura "Half Pint" Ingalls on TV's Little House on the Prairie, defended Jason Bateman, who performed her on-screen brother, after he stated he'd been hazed behind the scenes.

"Who? Who did this to you?!?!" Gilbert wrote subsequent to a picture of PEOPLE's story about Bateman's claims. "I’ll kick their tush….nobody smacks down my little bro! #iwillcutabitch."

Bateman was 11 when he performed an orphan adopted by the Ingalls household, which included Laura, in addition to Pa (Michael Landon), Ma (Karen Grassle), Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), and others. He appeared on 21 episodes of the NBC household drama in 1981 and 1982.

He defined on a current episode of Hot Ones how the older youngsters on set handled him as a beginner. It was not by telling him his character would die, which host Sean Evans had requested him about.

"Unfaithful," Bateman answered. "What they did do was, they pinned me down on the bottom, straddled me with knees on my shoulders, and gave me noogies or no matter they name it on my chest."

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He added, "They knocked on my chest like I used to be a entrance door."

He rapidly plotted his revenge.

"I went to the make-up artist and stated, 'Put a giant black-and-blue mark throughout my chest.' After which I went to their mother and father," Bateman recounted, "and I stated, 'Look what your youngsters did to me.' And that was good. I bought them in bother."

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Bateman joined the present in its later years. Premiering in 1974, Little Home featured a big ensemble solid that featured a number of youngsters in any given season. It will definitely concluded, after 9 season, in 1983. A reboot is within the works.

Nonetheless a teen, Bateman went on to seem on TV's Silver Spoons, Knight Rider, and Mr. Belvedere earlier than touchdown a full-time half on Valerie. As an grownup, he's labored on Arrested Improvement, the Horrible Bosses films, and Netflix's Black Rabbit, through which he at present costars with Jude Legislation.

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