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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Melissa Gilbert defends husband Timothy Busfield as actor faces child sexual abuse charges

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Melissa Gilbert and Timothy Busfield on 27 October 2025 in New York City. Photograph: Bruce Glikas/Getty Images

Melissa Gilbert has staunchly defended her husband and fellow actor Timothy Busfield in her first interview since New Mexico prosecutors charged him with child sexual abuse in early February.

In part of a conversation scheduled to be broadcast on Monday on Good Morning America but circulated in advance as a preview, Gilbert told ABC host George Stephanopoulos that she believed the Emmy winner whom she married in 2013 to be “the last person in the world who would hurt a child”.

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