Little House on the Prairie's Ma Ingells actress: Michael Landon would boast about his sex life with teen stand-in who became his wife

New York Post

Actress Karen Grassle, who played Caroline “Ma” Ingalls on Little House, recalls working with Landon in her new memoir, Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Life, Loss and Love from Little House’s Ma, which will be released next Tuesday. Grassle writes that Landon wouldn’t shut up about the wondrous effects of a natural supplement he’d recently started taking to improve his sex life. “Mike began to arrive jubilant at the makeup table, crowing about the benefits of bee pollen for the aging male,” Grassle writes. The cast soon learned that Landon was bragging about his sex life while having an affair with Cindy Clerico, a stand-in who was then 18 years old and more than 20 years Landon's junior. Landon married Clerico in 1983, eight years before his death.