He’s removed from heaven.
Disgraced former “seventh Heaven” star Stephen Collins has been photographed for the primary time in 5 years.
New images obtained by the New York Put up present the actor in Iowa on Monday. He was beforehand married to actress Faye Grant, with whom he has an grownup daughter, however after he confessed to sexual misconduct, they separated in 2012 and divorced in 2015.
Collins, 76, starred on the WB collection for 11 seasons, from 1996 to 2007. He performed Reverend Eric Camden, who lived within the fictional city of Glen Oak, California. Collectively together with his spouse Annie (Catherine Hicks), he had seven youngsters, together with Matt (Barry Watson), Simon (David Gallagher), Mary (Jessica Biel), Lucy (Beverley Mitchell), Ruthie (Mackenzie Rosman) and twins Sam and David (performed by quadruplets Lorenzo, Myrinda, Nikolas and Zachary Brino).
It was a healthful household drama that was a compatriot of seminal reveals like “Dawson’s Creek,” and it launched Jessica Biel.
However, a shadow was solid over it in 2014, when it was revealed that Collins had inappropriate sexual contact with three minors from the Seventies to the Nineteen Nineties.
The star was being investigated by the NYPD’s Particular Victims Division after he was allegedly taped admitting to intercourse crimes involving three underage women, law-enforcement sources advised Web page Six in 2014.
“There’s a formal criticism on file and the incident is being investigated,” a police supply stated on the time.
After this info got here to gentle, “seventh Heaven” reruns have been pulled from most networks.
Pamela Shae, the present’s govt in command of casting stated, “I used to be very, very shocked … I didn’t see [the scandal] coming.”
In 2015, the niece of a girl who lived subsequent door to Collins spoke out and stated Collins uncovered himself to her repeatedly when she was 13 years outdated.
April Worth, now a 44-year-old spouse and mom in Oklahoma, stated she first met the “seventh Heaven” actor when she visited her aunt’s Los Angeles house in 1983.
“I used to be visiting my aunt,” Worth advised the DailyMail. “She was an govt producer in Los Angeles. She lived in a walled-in, gated neighborhood of condo complexes and her condo was kitty nook to Mr. Collins.
She continued: “Sooner or later I used to be in kitchen cooking breakfast and I search for and I see Mr. Collins strolling via the courtyard, proper in entrance of my aunt’s large bay window,” Worth advised the publication. “He was utterly bare. He had no garments on in any way.”
The NYPD and LAPD each launched separate investigations into Collins in 2012, whereas the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Division appeared into a 3rd sexual abuse incident in 2014.
Collins admitted to the sexual abuse of three underage women from 1973 to 1994, however was not criminally charged.
Collection creator Brenda Hampton advised Life & Fashion in 2017 that she would need to embody Collins if there was ever a present reunion.
Hampton stated of the hypothetical reunion, “I would come with [Collins]. I feel all of the actors want to do a reunion present. It will be actually enjoyable!”
Hicks, who performed his on-screen spouse Annie Camden for 11 seasons, advised paparazzi in Sept. 2016 she would do a reunion if Collins’ character have been killed off.