Earlier this week, news broke that 7th Heaven star Stephen Collins is being investigated by authorities after he allegedlly admitted to molesting young girls on several occasions.

An audiotape, obtained by TMZ, allegedlly reveals a conversation between Collins, his wife and a therapist. During the conversation, Collins admits to molesting and exposing himself to young girls in the past. According to TMZ, Faye Grant was advised by her lawyer that she could lawfully record the conversation to gather evidence that her husband had committed a felony.

News of Collins’ molestation scandal came as a shock to his former supporters.

Former abuse victim and View co-host Rosie O’Donnell told her fellow panelists and audience members that it’s hard for her to accept that Collins isn’t who he appears to be.

“In my opinion he’s the Michael Landon of this generation; he always plays the wholesome, wonderful, loving, caring guy,” Rosie said.

She went on to add that she had always thought that she be able to spot a pedophile.

“I’m shocked and heartbroken. I think, like anyone here who knows someone who’s been accused of sexual abuse of children, it devastates everyone in the radius of that person, because it’s a shocking allegation and you know, for me, I always have my antenna up, in a way for that, having had a childhood with that, and I never in a million years. That’s the thing that scared me the most.”

Rosie’s View co-host Whoopi Goldberg noted that “you never know who you’re walking down the street with, you never know sometimes who you’re sleeping with.”