- - “Little House”'s Charlotte Stewart Details Her Time on the Run with Jim Morrison in 1969 After Warrant Was Issued for His Arrest

Virginia ChamleeDecember 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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Charlotte Stewart is opening up about her relationship with The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison

In a new interview, Stewart — who played schoolteacher Eva Beadle in Little House on the Prairie — said the two were only friends

But even so, she shared that they once went on the run after Morrison was famously charged with indecent exposure following a 1969 Miami concert

Charlotte Stewart may be best remembered for her role on Little House on the Prairie — that of the buttoned-up schoolteacher Eva Beadle — but her personal life was a bit more wild.

Stewart, 84, spoke to Fox News Digital in a recent interview, sharing that in her younger days, she palled around with The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison’ — even once going on the run with him after he was issued an arrest warrant.

Per Fox, the two met while Stewart owned a clothing boutique called Liquid Butterfly.

"We would go out for drinks," she told the outlet. "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."

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Elsewhere in the interview, Stewart shared that she "didn’t want" Morrison to be her "boyfriend," but instead, "All I wanted was to be his friend. He drank like I drank at that time. So we became trusted friends. He could count on me."

In 1969, their relationship took an interesting turn after Morrison was issued an arrest warrant by the Dade County, Florida Sheriff’s Office for one felony count and three misdemeanors — for lewd behavior, indecent exposure, profanity and drunkenness — stemming from a Miami concert.

"You have to remember, this was a very serious offense in Florida," Stewart told Fox. "He was facing trial. So he came up to me and said, ‘I gotta get out of town. You want to go?’ I said, ‘Sure.’"

She continued: "We jumped in the car, and he didn’t know where he wanted to go, so I directed him up Highway 1, which follows the Pacific Ocean all the way to Washington and Oregon. We just drove — stopping at bars along the way and staying overnight at motels."

"I shot our entire trip with my Super 8," she added. "Most of it was just him driving, which wasn’t very interesting. I was in the passenger seat. Outside the car was the Pacific Ocean, practically the whole time."

For four days, they traversed the state, and eventually, they came home.

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"Eventually, we had to go back to Los Angeles," Stewart told Fox. "He dropped me off at my store, and we said goodbye. I never saw him again."

Morrison would go on to face a tarnished reputation after exposing himself at the Miami concert in March 1969, and was convicted of indecent exposure and profanity and sentenced to six months in prison in September 1970, per the Miami Herald. He was posthumously pardoned in 2010.

The following spring, while Morrison's case was under appeal and he was out on bail, he traveled to Paris with his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, who was addicted to heroin. Months after stepping away from his career onstage, Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment in July 1971.

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