Overview
- On Nov. 12, Megyn Kelly said on her SiriusXM show that Jeffrey Epstein "liked 15-year-old girls" and drew a distinction between teens and much younger children.
- Melissa Gilbert posted photos of herself at 15 and wrote that revisiting those images made her "actually nauseated," adding "I WAS A CHILD" and telling Kelly to be careful with her words.
- Gilbert highlighted that she filmed a kiss at age 15 with co-star Dean Butler, then 23, and said her mother and Michael Landon helped keep her safe on set.
- Former child actors amplified the #iWasFifteen response, with Christina Ricci calling Kelly "a danger to children" and Valerie Bertinelli writing of a 1975 photo, "I’m 15. I’m a child."
- Coverage links the uproar to renewed public scrutiny of Epstein following recent House Oversight email releases, and as of Nov. 17 no apology or substantive clarification from Kelly had been reported.