Melissa Gilbert is navigating an intensely emotional interval as critical legal allegations towards her husband, Timothy Busfield, place their household beneath immense pressure. 

The actress has been pulled right into a fast-moving authorized course of unfolding in New Mexico, marked by detention hearings, courtroom filings, and public consideration. 

As Busfield stays behind bars awaiting key judicial selections, Gilbert has centered on his security, formally supporting him via the courts whereas retaining her public silence intact.

Gilbert is claimed to be “very involved about Tim in jail” as Busfield stays held on the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Heart in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in accordance with a supply who spoke to PEOPLE. 

The supply mentioned Gilbert “desires him out so he’s secure,” citing considerations concerning the facility, which reportedly “has security problem complaints.”

Busfield was booked on January 13 in reference to two counts of legal sexual contact of a minor and one rely of kid abuse. 

The supply informed the publication that Gilbert has been centered on making an attempt to get Busfield launched and deliberate to be in New Mexico as his authorized case strikes ahead. 

“The previous week has been a nightmare for Melissa,” the supply mentioned, describing the emotional toll on the actress.

The urgency surrounding Timothy Busfield’s case intensified forward of a pretrial detention listening to, throughout which a decide was anticipated to determine whether or not he would stay in custody. 

The decide was additionally set to rule on what circumstances Busfield would want to conform to if he have been provided a possible launch forward of trial.

Following that course of, the costs towards Busfield have been anticipated to be formally introduced, after which the actor can be arraigned on all three counts. 

Bernalillo County District Legal professional Sam Bregman later acknowledged that Busfield might resist 15 years in custody if convicted on all prices. 

As authorized proceedings continued, Melissa Gilbert submitted a letter to the courtroom on Friday in assist of her husband. 

Within the submitting, she described Busfield as central to her life and household. 

“The fact is that Tim Busfield is my love, my rock, my associate in enterprise and life,” she wrote. “He’s my consolation and my council. His pleasure, humor, and fast wit deliver sparkle to my life. Tim is, fairly merely, the beating coronary heart of our wild and fantastic prolonged household.”

The 61-year-old informed the decide, “I can let you know, and anybody, that I do know Tim higher and extra intimately than something in his life ever has. Conversely, he is aware of me in the identical approach.” 

Gilbert went on to explain the actor as having “the strongest ethical compass of any human I’ve ever identified,” including that he “has devoted his religious self to all the time being of service to others” and “begins on daily basis with kindness and compassion.”

In the identical letter, Gilbert acknowledged her inner wrestle as she tried to stability motive with emotion. 

“I’m making an attempt to tow a line between logic and all the emotions swirling via me,” she wrote. “I started this letter with logic, however now the emotions have taken over. I can’t assist it.”

She closed the letter with a direct enchantment for Timothy Busfield’s security whereas in custody. 

“I solely need this extraordinary man secure and complete,” the actress acknowledged. “So, I’ll shut by asking you to please, please, handle my candy husband.”