Melissa Gilbert is standing up for Jason Bateman.

Gilbert, 61, had a strong reaction to Bateman, 56, recently claiming that he was hazed as a child on the set of “Little House on the Prairie.”

“Who? Who did this to you?!?!” Gilbert, who played Bateman’s on-screen sister, Laura Ingalls Wilder, wrote on Instagram Sunday. 9

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“I will kick their tush… no one smacks down my little bro !” the actress added.

Bateman was 11 years old when he began playing James Cooper Ingalls, an orphan adopted by the Ingalls family, on the NBC drama series in 1981. 9

During his Sept. 18 appearance on “ Hot Ones,” Bateman reflected on how the older child actors treated him on the show’s set.

“What they did do is they pinned me down on the ground, straddled me with knees on my shoulders and ga

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