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‘Little House on the Prairie’ star Melissa Gilbert says Michael Landon’s ‘brutal’ cancer ‘decimated him’
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Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie," described losing her TV dad Michael Landon and good pal Patrick Swayze to pancreatic cancer.
"It is really a brutal and pernicious disease," Gilbert told People magazine. "To me, it felt like a tornado. You have no warning. It’s just there and the survival rate is virtually nil." "I’d seen Michael have meningitis, I’d seen him with broken bones, I’d seen him with a lot of illnesses over the course of our time together. But this took him and decimated him so fast." Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.
"I’d seen Michael have meningitis, I’d seen him with broken bones, I’d seen him with a lot of illnesses over the course of our time together," the 60-year-old reflected. "But this took him and decimated him so fast."