When Melissa Gilbert appeared on "Good Morning America" April 6 to give her first interview about the indictment of her husband Timothy Busfield on child sex abuse charges, she was composed and concerned.
But during a police interview with Busfield in November 2025 obtained exclusively by USA TODAY, Gilbert joined and sounded angry.
She called the accusations: “cruel and it's vindictive and it's disgusting.”
Busfield was charged on Jan. 9 with child sex abuse and was arrested soon after in connection with allegations of abusing twin boys on the set of Fox's "The Cleaning Lady" when they were seven and eight years old.
The crime thriller, mostly shot in an Albuquerque studio, followed a surgeon in the Philippines who comes to the U.S. for her son’s medical treatment and winds up working as a cleaner for the mob. Busfield worked as a director and producer on the series.
