Overview
- The former Little House on the Prairie co-stars reunited in New York after a performance of Pen Pals, where Veanne Cox arranged a surprise visit from Betty Buckley.
- Gilbert said she secretly invited Anderson and that they shared long, healing conversations with laughter and a few tears.
- In her caption, Gilbert wrote that “the past is now just that” and that they can “move forward” as the sisters and friends they wanted to be.
- Gilbert portrayed Laura and Anderson played Mary on the NBC series from 1974 to 1983, and both have previously described a distant off-screen relationship, including Gilbert’s 2014 remarks about tension.
- Coverage notes the reconciliation follows the August death of Anderson’s husband, television producer Michael Sloan, who was 78.