The sitcom geniuses’ daughter Lucie Arnaz, 73, had a surprising perspective on her parent’s notorious divorce.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz changed history with their sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951. The show ran 181 episodes until 1957, and was responsible for a lot of ground-breaking firsts. Ball was the first pregnant woman to portray a pregnant character on TV, as she was pregnant with her second child in real life, Desi Arnaz Jr., 72.

Her first child, Luci Arnaz, 73, arrived just 6 weeks before the iconic duo started the show. On March 4, 1960, Ball filed for divorce from Arnaz after a 20 year tumultuous marriage, ultimately due to his alcohol abuse and affairs.

“It got so bad that I thought it would be better for us not to be together,” Ball said according to People in court.

Luci has often said he parents divorce was “horrible” but she revealed to CBS Sunday Morning that she didn’t necessarily “fault ” her father for their divorce.

“People say he had affairs, he never had ‘affairs,'” she scoffed. “He didn’t even know these dames’ names. They were hookers… he loved my mother. He loved his family. It was a very unique, weird problem to have. And I think that’s the reason she stayed with him so long is that she understood it. I don’t think I could do it.”

It was her follow-up statement to a question about how the divorce impacted her that really took fans back.

“I think I was sort of very protective of my dad, believe it or not. I felt really sorry for my dad,” she admitted. “… I think because I felt like he was the one that got ousted.”

Fans did not hold back on on their perspective of her take.

“He was a well known serial cheater,” remarked one fan. “Most if not all the female guest stars appearing on [I Love Lucy] were chased around the set by him. The husband wife part wasn’t broken. He was incapable of being loyal as a husband.”

“It was affairs Lucie, calling one night stands derogatory names doesn’t make your dads actions any better. Heal by being truthful,” added another.

Ball faced a lot of scrutiny by the media over Arnaz’s affairs, and in her postmortem autobiography Love, Lucy she acknowledged she was seeing a psychiatrist for three hour long sessions and was having a “mild nervous breakdown.” She wrote of the harrowing time:

“I was trying to be a good trouper, a good neighbor, and sister and wife. I was trying as hard as I could, but everything seemed to be going wrong and everyone was blaming me.”