It’s been 10 months since Michael Douglas was accused of sexual harassment, which he vehemently denied. Now his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones says that the experience was traumatic for her family. 

“My children and I were profoundly devastated by those allegations. And I was torn about where my absolute morals lie,” she said in a new Times of London interview published this weekend. “This woman came out of nowhere and accused my husband. I had a very big conversation with him, with the kids in the room, and said, ‘Do you understand if more comes out …’”

She added, “It was a really hard position for me and, in the height of it all, it was nasty.”

The accuser was a female employee who claimed that Michael masturbated in front of her 32 years ago, then blacklisted her from Hollywood.

Catherine remained by her husband’s side. As she said in the Times, “There was nothing to back it up at all. For any accusation that comes out that isn’t backed up, that knocks the movement back 20 years.”