New details have come to light about 7th Heaven star Stephen Collins and his predatory ways in Investigation Discovery’s new series Hollywood Demons.

The six-part series debuts on Monday and features tales of different predators in the industry, starting with Collins’ episode entitled “Stephen Collins, America’s Dad.”

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The episode hears from Collins’ victims, including April Price, who was an avid fan of Collins at 13 and was excited to meet him in 1983 when she learned that he lived next door to her aunt in Los Angeles.

In the episode, Price said, “I remember wanting to get a headshot from him… when I knocked on the door and he opened the door, he was a tall, blonde-haired, blue-eyed god that was really nice and drove a sports car.”

Price posed for a Polaroid photo with Collins, and she later received an unsolicited headshot signed, “To April, come out and see us again sometime. Love, Stephen Collins.” Price said she found the message “off-putting” – “why would he write that?” – but promptly forgot about it, and was looking forward to spending the summer with her aunt. However, Collins would go on to expose himself to her multiple times. 

She remembered when she asked Collins for help setting up her Atari gaming system. “He said, ‘Sure,’ he could do that. No problem, and he’s in the living room in my aunt’s apartment hooking up that Atari and he turned around and his jeans were completely open, and he’s completely exposed.”

Price said she was, “supremely shocked, very uncomfortable, and still didn’t want to insult him because he was kind to me, and nice, and doing me a favor.”

Collins’ harassment of Price continued when he invited her to his apartment to see some movie memorabilia and walked “back from the bedroom completely nude.”

Price recounted, “My stomach just fell. I’m like, ‘Now I’m actually scared. I’m in this man’s apartment, I’m in a bathing suit, and he’s naked. This is bad, this is really bad. I don’t know what I’m gonna do.’ [I sat] as rigid and right and small as I could make myself.” When she saw her aunt walking home, she raced out of Collins’ apartment. “We didn’t even have a chance to say bye. I immediately go into her apartment and get in the shower.”

Price assumed she would never see Collins again after that summer and she went on to become a commercial producer. In 1997, she ran into him on set. “I’m sitting at a table at some point he sees me. the moment he saw me he knew. You could see it in his face, the whole countenance, he knew who I was.”

She remembered that Collins approached her and said, “I want you to know, what I did was extremely wrong. I feel terrible about it, please forgive me.”

Reflecting on the apology, Price says, “Looking back I don’t think it was sincere…I think it was damage control because all of a sudden here is one of my little indiscretions that I shouldn’t have done, who could hurt my career.”

In 2014, TMZ released a clip of audio secretly recorded in Collins’ therapy session where he admitted to having molested an 11-year-old girl and having inappropriate contact with others, including exposing himself to a neighbor’s young relative (whom Price identified to be herself).

That year, Collins released a statement in which he admitted to inappropriate sexual conduct with three underage women between the years of 1973 and 1994. In an interview shortly following the statement, Collins shared that he himself had been assaulted as a child, acknowledged his behavior, but also insisted, “I’m absolutely not attracted, physically or sexually attracted, to children.”

According to Investigation Discovery’s press release, each two-hour episode of the series aims to pull back “The glamorous curtain of fame to expose the hidden struggles, sacrifices and scandals of life in the spotlight.”

Episodes air at 9:00 p.m. on Max.

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Article by Baila Eve Zisman

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