I don’t have that burning ambition that I used to have.
I don’t miss the pressure.
I don’t miss the race.
I don’t miss the competition.
I don’t miss the feeling bad because I’m not younger and thinner."
Today, Gilbert has two biological children, three step-children from her current marriage and two from a previous-marriage.
There’s no doubt that the misfortune she encountered as a child influenced her parenting.
She spoke further on her childhood while on"Oprah: Where Are They Now?
“in November 2014, saying, “I had my own familial traumas and difficulties.
My father died when I was 11.
My parents divorced when I was 6.
My mother remarried a few times.
There was sadness and discomfort at home.”
In speaking on"Oprah: Where Are They Now?
It was a bad time for me.
I was not functioning at all for a few weeks.”
I wish, like me, he could have the love of a true life partner.
To feel cherished, safe and most of all, heard."
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
One of which was Rob Lowe, who she started dating when she was 17.
Gilbert spoke withTodayin June 2009 about their relationship, explaining, “We broke up.
It ran its course.
I think we were just too young.
It was very, very painful.
It was a very dark and difficult time for me.
… At the time it was devastating.”
Gilbert suffered a miscarriage shortly after she and Lowe ended things.
“I had lost my baby and my relationship with Rob.
… And it hurt like hell.”
In her memoir"Prairie Tale,“Gilbert wrote, “I thought I was dreaming.
I shook my head and blinked my eyes to confirm I was awake.
Bo was indeed screwing another woman.
He stopped and turned toward me.
‘What are you looking at?’
But then I probably wouldn’t have married him.
And if I hadn’t married him, I wouldn’t have had an amazing kid.”
As a kid, I didn’t know he sipped vodka from his coffee mug.
Tragically, Landon died from pancreatic cancer in July of 1991, just months after his diagnosis.
The loss of her co-star weighed heavily on Gilbert, and she fell into a depression.
She also detailed this time in her life in her memoir, writing, “I was heartbroken.
It seemed everyone in the world wanted a quote.
Yet I was incapable of communicating.
I stayed in bed with the shades drawn.
Anytime I got up and tried to move around, it felt as if I was moving through mud.
I walked around dazed in my pajamas for days” (via Showbiz Cheatsheet).
Her marriage to actor Bo Brinkman also played a part, as their relationship became characterized by alcohol use.
At the peak of Gilbert’s alcoholism, she was drinking two bottles of wine a night.
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While being treated, she had a fall and her doctor discovered she had broken her back.
Not long after, the patio cover of her home fell onto her head, leading to another concussion.
He had me read a scene.
The whole scene was just my character on her hands and knees saying, ‘Do me, baby.’
Really dirty, horrible,” the actor explained.
Despite her concerns about naming the man, Gilbert finally said, “F*** it.
It was Oliver Stone.
And it was ‘The Doors’ movie.”
She said the demand performance was meant to humiliate her but she didn’t do it.
Instead, she left the audition crying.
Another incident that hit the actor hard happened in June 2023, whenTreat Williams died in a motorcycle accident.
He even left Gilbert a note expressing his condolences.
“None of us will forget his kindness and humanity.
Oh how you are loved and oh how you will be missed.
All my love to Pam and the kids during this horrible, heartbreaking time.
