Melissa Gilbert Talks 'Little House on the Prairie' Days and Her Life Now in a Cabin (Exclusive)

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Melissa Gilbert’s character, Laura Ingalls Wilder, have stuck with the actress all these years later. In Gilbert's new book,, she talks about quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic at her home in the Catskill Mountains in New York, and living a life away from Hollywood.“When you're going through something like that, we really realize what you need versus what you want,” the 58-year-old actress told ET’s Rachel Smith, reflecting on the pandemic.«I think that we were really focused on the want, want, want, want, want collectively and I hope we remember what’s really important,» she continued. «The things that were really taken away from us.

Community was taken away from us, our families were taken away from us, some people lost loved ones and dear friends permanently, our jobs were taken away from us.

Life changed completely and the things that really matter are the things we love the most and the things that bring us the most peace and comfort.” Gilbert found comfort in her Catskills home, which she calls „cabbage,“ that she shares with her husband, Timothy Busfield.

After leaving Hollywood behind and settling upstate, Gilbert admitted to ET that her life is somewhat reminiscent to how Laura Ingalls lived with her family in . “The cabbage is very restorative,” Gilbert said of the home she moved into with her husband in 2019. “My life is just a lot more gentle.