Wendi Lou Lee wasn’t even in kindergarten yet when she got her big break in Hollywood.

From 1978 until 1982, Lee and her twin sister Brenda played Baby Grace on the hit television show “Little House On The Prairie.” After the show ended, Lee lived a normal life away from Hollywood until 2015, when she learned she had a brain tumor. Now, she’s opening up about dealing with the tumor, saying that it was God who got her through it.

“It was about six weeks before my surgery when I started having terrible headaches, dizziness and forgetfulness,” Lee said of her diagnosis. “Definitely a lot of mental confusion. It took about six weeks for my doctors to finally order a brain scan. Then we found out.”

Recovering from brain surgery was incredibly difficult for Lee, but it was her Christian faith that helped her through it.

“Faith played a huge role,” she explained. “Before my surgery, I was so hopeless. I kept praying to him and saying, ‘I need you, please be with me.’ And then after surgery, I just felt such gratefulness… I just felt like my faith woke up and I had this sense of boldness to share my story in hopes it could help someone.”

Lee was then asked if this experienced impacted her faith at all.

“This was the hardest thing I had to deal with,” Lee said. “At the time, I felt like this was another storm that I was walking through. The best thing that I can do in this situation is just trust that God knows what he’s doing. A lot of people didn’t understand how that was possible. But I just kept going back to the verse in Romans 15:13 which is ‘May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.’ You may not be experiencing any joy or peace in that moment of your life, but trust that God has a plan. And after surgery, I was so joyful and so at peace – more than really what made sense. And I think that’s because I put my trust in God.”