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‘Little House on the Prairie’ Star Reveals Wild Friendship With Jim Morrison

Charlotte Stewart played the wholesome Miss Beadle.

The actor who played the wholesome schoolteacher, Miss Eva Beadle, on Little House on the Prairie, was good friends with Jim Morrison. Charlotte Stewart, now 84, revealed in a new interview that before she got famous, she used to party with The Doors frontman. “We would go out for drinks,” she told Fox News Digital. “He was quite a drinker, and often he needed to be driven home. So I would take him to my house because he trusted me.” The two became friends because Stewart, who was a self-described hippie at the time, had a clothing store across the street from the band’s label, Elektra Records. Stewart told Fox she never wanted a “romance” with Morrison—she just wanted to be his friend, though she described it as “a friend with benefits.” The pair took a four-day road trip in 1969 after an arrest warrant was issued for Morrison in connection with a Miami concert he performed. It was the last time they saw one another; Morrison died in 1971 in Paris, when he was 27 and Stewart was 33. Two years later, Stewart successfully auditioned for Little House on the Prairie.