"The reason I opened my big fat mouth, was because someone else opened hers," Gilbert tells PEOPLE Melissa Gilbert speaks out about the things that are important to her. After making headlines for her recent comments reacting to Megyn Kelly's tweet about the Little House on the Prairie reboot,

“Part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale and part origin story of the American West, this fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic semi-autobiographical Little House books offers a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier,” a logline for the new show says.

Little House on the Prairie alum Melissa Gilbert took notice of Megyn Kelly's response to Wednesday's news of a planned reboot on Netflix. Just after it was announced, the former Fox News journalist and current host of The Megyn Kelly Show,

After Megyn Kelly threatened to "ruin" Netflix's upcoming 'Little House on the Prairie' reboot if they "woke-ify" it, Melissa Gilbert responded.

The final installment of 'Little House on the Prairie' saw the town of Walnut Grove left as rubble — the result of what she claims was a "disrespectful" move by NBC towards Landon

Melissa Gilbert is reflecting on the literally explosive ending of Little House on the Prairie in the TV movie Little House: The Late Farewell 41 years later. In the TV movie, the people of Walnut Grove fought against a tycoon and ultimately detonated explosives in the buildings as the Ingalls family watched.