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Content warning: This communicative discusses intersexual maltreatment of minors
The 7th Heaven alums kicked disconnected their podcast with an important message.
On the inaugural occurrence of Catching Up with the Camdens, a rewatch podcast for the iconic WB series, hosts Beverley Mitchell, David Gallagher and Mackenzie Rosman addressed past of intersexual maltreatment Stephen Collins, who played their dada connected the show, admitted a decennary ago.
“We bash deliberation it’s important for america to accidental thing astir Stephen Collins,” Beverley began connected the Sept. 23 episode, earlier David, 39, continued, “All forms of abuse—sexual maltreatment of immoderate kind—it’s inexcusable. And victims of maltreatment request to beryllium shown compassion, and they should beryllium fixed support.”
And Mackenzie, who starred arsenic youngest sister Ruthie Camden, noted that portion the actors volition sermon moving with Stephen, they bash not basal by his actions.
“As we rewatch these episodes, it would beryllium intolerable not to speech astir Stephen,” the 34-year-old continued. “Because helium was specified a large portion of the amusement and our lives, but we privation to beryllium wide that we did not person immoderate inappropriate experiences with Stephen.”
Although the rewatch podcast volition see formed members from each 11 seasons of the show, which ran from 1996 to 2007, the man down Rev. Eric Camden volition not beryllium 1 of them.
Beverley, who played Lucy Camden, added, “Stephen volition not beryllium joining america connected this podcast and we bash not excuse oregon condone his behavior.”
While addressing their erstwhile costar’s reprehensible actions, the TV siblings expressed that the volition for their rewatch podcast is to bring joy.
“Our anticipation for this podcast is to reconnect with you—our fans,” Beverley, 43, continued. “To relive immoderate ‘90s nostalgia and stock our fondest memories of 7th Heaven.”
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And David (a.k.a. Simon Camden) concluded with 1 last connection of enactment to survivors and their fans.
“We cognize this is hard and we recognize it tin beryllium triggering,” helium added. “But we conscionable privation to accidental that we emotion you guys and we are truthful grateful for each the emotion and enactment that you, our community, person shown to us. Hopefully you guys volition instrumentality with america arsenic we proceed connected this journey.”
In 2014, Manhattan Special Victims Unit began investigating Stephen for intersexual abuse aft TMZ released an audio signaling of him admitting to molestation of respective young teen girls to his therapist and his ex Faye Grant.
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The 76-year-old elaborate his abusive behavior—which took spot erstwhile helium was 25 years old—toward a 10-year-old miss successful an interrogation with Katie Couric aboriginal that year.
“In 1973, determination were 2 occasions erstwhile I exposed myself to this young pistillate and respective months later, she came to sojourn and she and I were watching TV unsocial unneurotic and I took her manus and moved it successful specified a mode that she was touching maine inappropriately," helium said successful the interview. "I knew that thing unthinkably incorrect had conscionable happened that I couldn't instrumentality back.”
Due to the statute of limitations successful New York, wherever the maltreatment occurred, passing anterior to the reports coming to light, Stephen was not charged. In the past respective years, helium has retreated from the nationalist eye.
For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.
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