Idris Elba and his wife, model Sabrina Dhowre Elba, defended themselves Sunday for not keeping apart from each other after the actor tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Dhowre Elba revealed Sunday that she now has COVID-19 as well, but said she has no regrets about staying by her husbands side.

We didnt change the way we interacted, she told Oprah Winfrey via FaceTime on Apple TV+s Oprah Talks COVID-19, per People . I could have made a decision to put myself maybe in a separate room or stay away, and Im sure that people are making those decisions that are tough decisions to make. But I made the decision to be with him and still touch him.

The couple took some flak last week after Elba disclosed his positive test result in a video with his wife in close proximity.

Elba said the couple had been together on the day of his probable exposure and remained so until he left for a movie shoot.

If I had caught it, she had certainly caught it in that time period, as well, the Mollys Game star told Winfrey, per NBC News . People were right to have highlighted that spatial distancing is important. I think given the context of the video, which was telling the world what has happened to us, we werent thinking about that specifically.