Sherri Shepherd is still holding a grudge against "Little House on the Prairie" star: 'Can't let this one go' Ryan ColemanOctober 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM 21 Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Sherri Shepherd and Melissa Gilbert Sherri Shepherd can forgive, but she can't forget.
- - Sherri Shepherd is still holding a grudge against "Little House on the Prairie" star: 'Can't let this one go'
Ryan ColemanOctober 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Sherri Shepherd and Melissa Gilbert
Sherri Shepherd can forgive, but she can't forget.
The daytime talk show host is opening up about still feeling salty over her early elimination from Dancing With the Stars season 14 — and the role that a certain Little House on the Prairie star played in her unceremonious exit.
"I don't know how I went home before Melissa Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie," Shepherd grouses to her studio audience in a preview clip from Friday's episode of Sherri. "I'm telling you, I still can't let this one go."
She continues: "Let me tell you what happened. Melissa Gilbert — I don't know what dance she was doing. Her partner was Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Melissa fell and she hit her head against Maks' leg, allegedly, and so she went to the doggone hospital but I got voted off. I kept going, 'How did she beat me from the ICU?!'"
Gilbert did indeed sit out week 4 of the the long-running reality competition series' 14th season, which aired in 2012. The previous week, while dancing the paso doble on stage, Gilbert smashed her head into Chmerkovskiy's leg while he spun her on the ground. She finished out the dance but was rushed backstage and eventually taken to a hospital after complaining of dizziness.
"You feel responsible for your partners," Chmerkovskiy said moments after Gilbert was escorted out of the ballroom. "You start questioning are you doing the right things, is this necessary as part of choreography."
It was a shock when the bottom two pairs then consisted of Shepherd and her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy (Maks' brother), and Karina Smirnoff and Gavin DeGraw (who carried Gilbert to the ambulance from the backstage area).
When Shepherd was subsequently eliminated, she burst into tears, thanking the show for "letting me live a dream that I've always had… and I want to say to every person out there — that thing that scares you the most, that makes you say, 'I don't know if I can do it I'm scared,' run towards it, because it's so amazing on the other side.'"
More than a decade later, Shepherd is joking that her gratitude for the opportunity has since burned off, leaving only resentment over what could have been. "When I tell y'all I was so mad at Melissa Gilbert," Shepherd says with a playful smile. "When she ran for the president of the Screen Actors Guild for the actors, I didn't vote. I didn't vote for Melissa. She even called me, she said, 'Sherri, can I count on your vote?' I said, 'Melissa, did you count on my vote on Dancing With the Stars?'"
Shepherd then clarifies, "Melissa, I'm good with you now. You're lucky and really sweet, and if you run again for president, you've got my vote, girl."
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Gilbert for comment.
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Val Chmerkovskiy and Sherri Shepherd on 'Dancing With the Stars'
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Shepherd's walk down memory lane toward her Dancing With the Stars days was prompted by this weeks' shocking elimination of Fifth Harmony star Lauren Jauregui from the current season.
Jauregui was one of last week's highlights, and her week 3 cha-cha-cha to her own song, "Work From Home," with partner Brandon Armstrong scored the couple 18 points, tying them for last place with the celeb most fans expected to see sent packing, Andy Richter.
Dancing With the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+, and streams the next day on Hulu. Watch the Sherri clip above for more from Shepherd.
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