Washington DC, April 6 -- Actor Melissa Gilbert has expressed strong confidence that her husband, Timothy Busfield, will be exonerated of child sexual abuse charges, calling the ongoing legal battle "the most traumatising experience" of their lives, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"This has been hell. This has been the most traumatising experience of our lives," Gilbert said on Monday's Good Morning America, in her first sit-down interview with co-anchor George Stephanopoulos, alongside Busfield's civil attorney Larry Stein.

She added, "And believe me, if I thought for a second that Tim Busfield hurt a child, he'd have a lot more to worry about than prison."

She said she has no doubts about his innocence but hopes for an apology a...