Melissa Gilbert is speaking out after Megyn Kelly called 15-year-olds “barely legal.”
The award-winning actress, 61, joined social media users in the #IWasFifteen trend and called out Kelly in an Instagram post after the conservative pundit issued a bizarre defense of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Kelly, 54, drew outrage last week when she asserted in an episode of her eponymous podcast that Epstein “was not a pedophile,” citing a source who claimed that “he was into the barely legal type—like, he liked 15-year-old girls.”
“I’m just giving you facts that he wasn’t into, like, eight-year-olds,” she said. “But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”
Kelly—herself the mother of a 14-year-old girl—swiftl

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