Posted on 10/07/2014 4:58:14 PM PDT by grundle
Stephen Collins, who played minister and family man the Rev. Eric Camden on TV's 7th Heaven, confessed to his now ex-wife that he molested an underage girl and exposed himself to two others, prompting police on both coasts to examine his admission and Hollywood to distance itself from the actor.
While no charges have been filed against Collins, and he has yet to comment, fallout from the startling revelation has reached Hollywood. Within hours of the news breaking, he was fired from the Mark Wahlberg stoner sequel Ted 2, a source told The Insider. Collins also resigned this morning from the national board of SAG-AFTRA actor union, a spokesperson confirmed.
Meanwhile, the UP TV network, which reaches nearly 70 million homes, has pulled 7th Heaven reurns. "As a top family-friendly network, we are deeply concerned for the families that are potentially affected by these disturbing allegations surrounding actor Stephen Collins," network CEO Charley Humbard said in a statement.
According to divorce documents obtained by Yahoo, Collins, 67, admitted to sexual misconduct with three young girls during a 2012 therapy session with his now ex-wife, Faye Grant. Collins said the incidents took place over several years more than a decade prior. At the advice of her attorney, Grant secretly recorded the session. Much of what was discussed in that meeting was also mentioned in the former couple's divorce documents, obtained by The Insider With Yahoo.
In the documents, filed in February 2012, Grant says she only learned of her husband's "secret life" in January of that year, calling it "a long-term pattern of sexually molesting children." The document continues, "Stephen admitted that he had sexually molested three underage girls over a decade ago; at least two of these three girls were molested over the course of several years."
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Personally suspect this is par for the course among many of these Hollywood people.
Absolutely. I wish Corey Feldman had really spilled ALL the beans.
One of the other star died in her sleep last night.
who?
Boy this sucks, I actually looked up to the guy in Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Sarah Goldberg, 40,
Lawdy. Not much to the imagination there.
Reminds me of that Moochelle Obama pic.
Corey Feldman or Corey Haim?
Perverts in showbiz? Nah,I’d never believe it!
Yeah there seem to be a LOT of perverts in Hollyweird...
It is almost as if Kinsey did his “Study” in Hollyweird....
Yeah worst Star Trek movie the first one
Least they improved with Star Trek the Wrath of Khannn
Seven of nine is one of the reasons we Have OBAMA.... That is ironic...
I am Blaming Voyager for Obama...
Feldman. I think Haim has died, but he experienced abuse as well.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=roW238dfUUk
TMP is better than 5 imo.
“Stephen Collins, who played minister and family man the Rev. Eric Camden on TV’s 7th Heaven, confessed to his now ex-wife that he molested an underage girl and exposed himself to two others,”
Give it a few months and child molestation will be legal under Buckwheats America and those who resist, provided they’re unarmed, will be sent to Buckwheat’s Get-Your-Head-Straight concentration camp.
He was in a WWII movie also, and I cannot remember the name to save my life. He was a Nazi and was a big whig clerk or aid to some big Nazi and the story was about these two brothers I think and he got one to join with him. The blond actress, Baker I think was her last name, was in it.
Or he could hire Roman Polanski's publicist.
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