Melissa Gilbert Called ‘DWTS’ ‘the Ultimate Spray-Tan-Glitter-Fake-Hair-Fake-Everything Festival of Falsity’

Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert competed on Dancing With The Stars in March 2012 as part of the Season 14 cast. Her partner was Maksim Chmerkovskiy, whom she still ‘gets along with “adores” to this day. But she has complicated feelings about the show itself. The Laura Ingalls actor was on DWTS during a time when she was on the cusp of learning who the real Melissa Gilbert is. And, as it turns out, DWTS doesn’t agree with the real Melissa Gilbert.  

Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Melissa Gilbert on 'Dancing With The Stars'
Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Melissa Gilbert | Adam Taylor / Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images

Melissa Gilbert felt like she had to do ‘Dancing With The Stars’ to prove that her back had healed

Gilbert broke her back when she was playing Laura Ingalls’ mother in the touring musical of Little House on the Prairie back in 2009. But she didn’t learn she’d broken her back until after the musical had wrapped. So she trudged through the tour by receiving steroids and epidural nerve blocks. Once a doctor told her that she’d been walking around (and singing and dancing) with a broken back, she underwent surgery. The healing process was long a grueling (and it’s actually when the actor started questioning her second marriage to Bruce Boxleitner). 

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