Melissa Gilbert is remembering how her biological father “knew” she was his after seeing her on screen.
Gilbert — who starred on Little House on the Prairie and was adopted after birth — opened up on an episode of the Patrick LabyorSheaux Podcast about his relationship with his biographical father.
She admitted that she called him as an adult to share the news with him, and found out that he already knew.
“I didn’t tell him who I was, and then he asked me, ‘Well, who are you? What do you do?'” she told host Patrick Labyorteaux during the podcast.
“And I said, ‘Well, here’s the thing.’ And I said, ‘Have you ever watched Little House on the Prairie ?’ And he said, ‘You’re Laura, aren’t you? I knew it.’ He knew it,” he added.
“When I met my half-siblings, we all looked the same,” Gilbert explained. “So you could definitely see it. So it’s pretty clear.”
She also opened up about her biological mother—who died before Gilbert had the opportunity to meet her—sharing that she was a former exotic dancer, while her biological father was a race car driver and musician.
The actress was raised by her adoptive parents, Barbara Cowan and the late Paul Gilbert.
Gilbert is the mother of two children; Dakota, whom she shares with her first husband, director Bo Brinkman, and another son, Michael, born in 1995, whom she shares with her second husband, actor Bruce Boxleitner.
