Melissa Gilbert’s six-year relationship with Rob Lowe was “very tumultuous”.
Melissa Gilbert’s ‘tumultuous’ Rob Lowe romance
The 61-year-old former youngster star dated Rob, 61, on and off from 1981 to 1987 and admitted his heartthrob standing was troublesome to take care of.
Talking on the I Select Me podcast, she mentioned: “I suppose wanting again on these six years, I imply, I used to be such a child when Rob and I had been collectively. I used to be 17 and we broke up for the final time once we had been 23 and it was very tumultuous.
“I felt like a little bit of an outdated sage within the enterprise at that time as a result of I might been doing it for thus lengthy. And I used to be nonetheless on Little Home on the Prairie once we met, and it had already been years, and he was form of beginning out. He’d performed somewhat little bit of tv. And so I used to be in a position to form of sit again and watch this meteoric rise occur.
“I do not assume I used to be ready for the stuff that got here with it, essentially. I used to be ready for all of getting to go to premieres and issues and award reveals and all of that, however I wasn’t ready for the fandom and admittedly, the women.
“I at all times thought that each woman and girl was my sister. We’re sisters, nevertheless it was not evident in any respect when Rob and I had been a pair. I imply, it was like I did not exist. They only pushed proper previous me and stick cellphone numbers in his pockets and stuff.
“To say it was disconcerting is doing it an enormous disservice. It was arduous and horrible.”
Nevertheless, Melissa is now grateful for the romance because it helped her set boundaries in future relationships.
She mentioned: “I believe I realized loads about what did not work for me, truly, and what I would not stand for afterward.
“They’re arduous as a result of they often are born of heartbreak and angst, however these are actually beneficial and necessary classes… We had some actually, actually, actually enjoyable occasions.
“However in wanting again, I have a look at the best way my life is so easeful now and I have a look at it again then, and I really feel like my shoulders had been at all times up by my ears, at all times ready for the subsequent shoe to drop or one thing dangerous to occur or some, I do not know, one thing untoward or gross.”
