He was acting normal so I was determined to do the same. This was not something I was even remotely prepared for in my life and I shut down. “Honestly, I was 13 and hadn't even kissed a boy yet.
She decided to play along and act normal. “His penis was hanging out and I'm just shocked. “I don't know at what point he did it, but when he turned around, his pants were completely unfastened,” she said. She was heading into her aunt's apartment to set up her Atari. It's weird, whatever… I let it go.”Ī few days later, April ran into Collins in the courtyard. Price said being from Oklahoma, she thought, “Oh, okay.
When she told a neighbor about the encounter, the woman mentioned that Collins had recently been in France. Who would do that? At the time, I didn't think it was necessarily sinister really, but I thought it was odd. Collins walking through the courtyard, right in front of my aunt's big bay window. She described the first time he crossed the line like this: “One day I was in kitchen cooking breakfast and I look up and I see Mr. Over the course of her summer vacation, she spoke with Collins several times within the complex. It was 1983 and he was starring in the hit show “The Tales of the Gold Monkey.” Price says she was excited to learn Collins was her aunt's neighbor in a private, gated apartment complex. In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail, Price details the three times Collins supposedly exposed himself to her when she was just a 13-year-old girl visiting her aunt in L.A. In addition to the lengthy statement that People will publish in its issue Friday, the 67-year-old actor is scheduled for an interview with Yahoo Global news anchor Katie Couric that will be streamed on that site and aired on ABC’s “20/20.”Ĭollins and Grant are still in the midst of their divorce proceedings.April Price is the first alleged victim of Stephen Collins to speak out against the former “7th Heaven” star. But after I learned in the course of my treatment that my being direct about such matters could actually make things worse for them by opening old wounds, I have not approached the other two women, one of whom is now in her 50s and the other in her 30s.” “I apologized and she was extraordinarily gracious. “I did have an opportunity to do so with one of the women, 15 years later,” he says. As difficult as this is, I want people to know the truth.”Ĭollins said he has struggled over whether to apologize directly to the women who were involved. “The publication of the recording has resulted in assumptions and innuendos about what I did that go far beyond what actually occurred. “On the recording, I described events that took place 20, 32, and 40 years ago,” Collins says in his statement. This session was recorded without the therapist’s or my knowledge or consent.”Ĭollins was known for his clean-cut image in Hollywood and played a pastor and beloved father on the hit show “7th Heaven.” He’s avoided the limelight since the accusations were made public.
I’ve decided to address these issues publicly because two months ago, various news organizations published a recording made by my then-wife, Faye Grant, during a confidential marriage therapy session in January, 2012. “I have been working to atone for it ever since. “Forty years ago, I did something terribly wrong that I deeply regret,” he says in the statement. In the statement he released to People, Collins said “I have not had an impulse to act out in any such way” in the past 20 years. The incidents reportedly happened between 19. Stephen Collins’ estranged wife says there’s no extortion attempt
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