
Disgraced ‘7th Heaven’ star Stephen Collins’ accuser speaks out: ‘He victimized’ the cast, too
NY Post
April Price, 54, thought she was meeting her idol when she stayed with her aunt in 1983 and Stephen Collins was her neighbor – but it soon turned into a nightmare when the actor exposed himself to her on three separate occasions.
Price was 13.
She didn’t speak out about it publicly until the news about his sexual misconduct broke in 2014.
“I knew that I wouldn’t be believed,” she exclusively told The Post. “I would be accused of looking for money or dragging him down … I would have been the liar, and it would have been just my word against his, and nothing ever would have come of it.”
Collins, 77, was best known for playing Eric Camden, the benevolent minister and father of seven kids, on the long-running family show “7th Heaven.” He’s now the topic of the premiere episode of the ID docuseries “Hollywood Demons.”
The role gave him the public persona of “America’s dad.” Jessica Biel, Barry Watson, Beverley Mitchell, Mackenzie Rosman and David Gallagher were among the actors who played his children.