Following the death of Hayden Panettiere, Melissa Gilbert is the latest to call for better protections for child actors.
On Saturday, the Little House on the Prairie alum admitted she “did not know Hayden personally,” but explained that her death feels “so personal to me” as a former child actor, demanding unions “enact real change” in response.
“How is it possible that no one in the mainstream media has picked up on this?” she began in a Substack essay. “Within one year, Michelle Trachtenberg, Daveigh Chase and Hayden Panettiere have died. DIED! Three former female child actors of the
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