{"id":71044,"date":"2026-04-07T05:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/melissa-gilbert-denies-being-naive-or-complicit-in-standing-by-timothy-busfield-despite-sexual-abuse-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:56","slug":"melissa-gilbert-denies-being-naive-or-complicit-in-standing-by-timothy-busfield-despite-sexual-abuse-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/melissa-gilbert-denies-being-naive-or-complicit-in-standing-by-timothy-busfield-despite-sexual-abuse-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Gilbert denies being \u2018naive\u2019 or \u2018complicit\u2019 in standing by Timothy Busfield despite sexual abuse claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actor whose husband is charged with child sexual abuse says she believes \u2018his side of the story\u2019 is \u2018the truth\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Melissa Gilbert contends she is \u201cneither naive nor \u2026 complicit\u201d having married and deciding to stand by her fellow actor Timothy Busfield amid numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/GMA\/Culture\/melissa-gilbert-speaks-timothy-busfields-child-sexual-contact\/story?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dhfacebook&amp;utm_content=null&amp;id=131653543&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawRAn_ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF4d3FYQVRZVDRPQXBqMlhyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHj16uDXQg2SU80oU7vK9pvhr-k8n4k-6Ki1HqIHrHecu5H9niQYEwhGw9Str_aem_4A1UYcyKc3yusDYeoJttvQ\">saying<\/a> she exclusively has \u201cheard his side of the story\u201d and that it is \u201cthe truth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this man in my bones,\u201d the former Little House on the Prairie cast member remarked in an interview on Monday\u2019s edition of Good Morning America. \u201cNo one knows him better than I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/07\/melissa-gilbert-abc-interview-timothy-busfield\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actor whose husband is charged with child sexual abuse says she believes \u2018his side of the story\u2019 is \u2018the truth\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Melissa Gilbert contends she is \u201cneither naive nor \u2026 complicit\u201d having married and deciding to stand by her fellow &#8230; <a title=\"Melissa Gilbert denies being \u2018naive\u2019 or \u2018complicit\u2019 in standing by Timothy Busfield despite sexual abuse claims\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/melissa-gilbert-denies-being-naive-or-complicit-in-standing-by-timothy-busfield-despite-sexual-abuse-claims\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Melissa Gilbert denies being \u2018naive\u2019 or \u2018complicit\u2019 in standing by Timothy Busfield despite sexual abuse claims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}