Kathie Lee Gifford shocked her fans this week when she revealed that the disgraced comedian Bill Cosby once “tried to kiss” her.

Gifford, 67, revealed in a new interview with People Magazine that she and Cosby worked together for two years, and she considered him to be a “good friend.” However, that all changed one night when Cosby crossed the line with her.

“He tried to kiss me,” she recalled. “He was not the first man during a multi-decade career that came on to me, and I’m just very grateful that I never let any of them take it any further than that.”

“This was the most admired man in America for years,” Gifford added of the “Cosby Show” star. “He was called America’s dad, remember?”

“And the one and only time that he did try to kiss me, I said, ‘No. Bill, you’re my friend.’ He goes, ‘You’re right. Good night.’ So I found those accusations against him very painful, because that’s not the man I knew,” she continued.

Cosby is currently serving a prison sentence of three to ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, over a decade ago. Dozens of other women have accused Cosby of similar crimes as well.

“I never saw anybody personally being treated that way by him in two years, traveling all over the country, staying in the same house with him whenever we went to Harris, or in Reno,” Gifford said. “We had great fun together, and I never thought a thing of it ever. He would make me cappuccinos, he’d make the girls cappuccinos, he would pour me a glass of wine on occasion, and I would read the stories about how he would put drugs in other women’s drinks and it was just foreign to me.”

“I didn’t doubt the women’s stories,” she added. “I don’t know why he behaved the way he did with the other women, that’s their story to tell.”

Gifford went on to say that while she was “surprised” by Cosby’s attempted kiss, she “didn’t feel panicked.”