April Price Details Molestation Allegations Against Stephen Collins

In Investigation Discovery's Hollywood Demons: Stephen Collins, American Dad, April Price alleged that Stephen Collins exposed himself to her connected respective antithetic occasions successful the summertime of 1983, erstwhile she was 13.

E! News reached retired to Collins for remark connected the allegations elaborate successful the amusement but has not heard back. He admitted successful a December 2014 statement to People to committing intersexual misconduct with 3 underage girls "20, 32 and 40 years ago."

Price said that she archetypal went to sojourn her aunt, who worked successful Los Angeles arsenic a producer, during her outpouring interruption successful 1983, and Collins was a neighbour astatine her flat complex. The Midwest autochthonal recalled being "absolutely starstruck" and, arsenic a immense instrumentality of his ABC bid Tales of the Gold Monkey, she knocked connected his doorway to inquire for an autographed caput shot. He came done with his committedness to nonstop her a photo, penning connected it (as shown successful the series), "To April, travel retired and spot america again immoderate time," signing it, "Love, Steve Collins."

When she returned to walk the summertime successful L.A., Price alleges, she saw Collins walking bare done a courtyard disposable from her aunt's flat connected his mode to the laundry room. 

A fewer days later, Price continued, she asked Collins if helium could assistance her hook up her Atari console successful her aunt's surviving room. While inside, she alleged, helium turned astir and she saw that his jeans were "completely open" and helium was "completely exposed." 

Price said she was "supremely shocked" and "very uncomfortable" but besides "didn’t privation to insult him due to the fact that helium was benignant to maine and bully and doing maine a favor." So, she said, she tried to unreal thing was amiss.

On different occasion, Price said, she was sitting successful the courtyard eating meal erstwhile a bathrobe-clad Collins sat down with her and complimented her beauteous feet. When she resisted the remark, she said, helium told her she needed to larn however to instrumentality a compliment.

Price further said that, close earlier she was expected to permission L.A. to instrumentality home, Collins asked if she wanted to look astatine immoderate of the TV memorabilia helium had successful his apartment. "Still upset" by his erstwhile behavior, she said, but rationalizing helium wouldn't bash it again, she accepted. While she was perusing his mementos, helium excused himself for a infinitesimal and was bare erstwhile helium returned, Price alleged successful the show.

"Now I'm really scared," Price said, describing that she made herself "as rigid and arsenic tiny and arsenic choky arsenic I could marque myself." She estimated that she was successful Collins' flat for 20 minutes earlier she saw her aunt travel location done the model and utilized that arsenic her excuse to leave.

In October 2014, aft TMZ published a signaling from a 2012 therapy league betwixt Collins and then-wife Faye Grant successful which helium seemingly admitted to sexually abusing underage girls, a then-unnamed pistillate filed a constabulary report alleging that Collins exposed himself to her astatine a West Hollywood flat analyzable successful 1983.

L.A. County Sheriff's officials said the statute of limitations for an apprehension successful that lawsuit had passed, but they were investigating to spot if determination were much caller incidents. At the clip authorities successful L.A. and New York confirmed they were investigating allegations from 4 women. Collins was ne'er charged.

In the recording, Collins referred to a miss by name, which was bleeped out, saying she "was the niece of the pistillate who lived crossed the way."

Price said successful the ID amusement that, arsenic soon arsenic she heard the recording, she knew helium was talking astir her and she called constabulary the adjacent day.

April Price Recalls Stephen Collins' Apology

Price said that, erstwhile she recovered retired astir Collins' 7th Heaven role, her soundlessness started to measurement connected her arsenic she disquieted that what helium did to her was "the starting constituent to a marathon."

She ended up moving to L.A. to enactment successful amusement and unexpectedly crossed paths with Collins again successful 1997—and Price said helium utilized the accidental to apologize to her.

She was moving connected affiliate promos for CBS, she recalled, and saw him connected the telephone sheet. "The infinitesimal helium saw me, helium knew," Price said. And erstwhile nary 1 other was around, she continued, helium came up to her and said, "'I privation you to know, what I did was highly wrong, I consciousness unspeakable astir it, delight forgive me.'"

Price admittedly felt better. She remembered concluding, "He is sorry, he is contrite. So, I kept my rima shut." But, she added, "Looking back, I don’t deliberation it was sincere. I deliberation it was harm control."

In 2014, Collins told People helium had an accidental 15 years aft the information to apologize to 1 of the 3 women helium was sexually inappropriate with.

"I apologized and she was extraordinarily gracious," helium said. "But aft I learned successful the people of my attraction that my being nonstop astir specified matters could really marque things worse for them by opening aged wounds, I person not approached the different 2 women, 1 of whom is present successful her 50s and the different successful her 30s."

7th Heaven Actors Remember Thinking Stephen Collins Was the Greatest

Kyle Searles, who joined 7th Heaven successful 2004 playing Mac, the champion person of Tyler Hoechlin's Martin, recalled Collins arsenic the astir congenial, unassuming feline who drove to enactment successful an aged Prius and would walk breaks chatting up extras and different making everyone consciousness welcome.

“I ever felt, I privation to beryllium similar that," Searles said in ID's Hollywood Demons. "I request to exemplary myself aft him more."

The histrion said 7th Heaven "set the modular successful my caput arsenic to what a acceptable should beryllium like. And erstwhile I look backmost connected my full acquisition successful the business, there's lone a mates of radical I tin look backmost connected and say, they taught maine something. Stephen was decidedly close there, astir apt No. 1."

Jeremy London, who teared up connected camera arsenic helium recalled being fired from 7th Heaven after 2 seasons amid a spate of idiosyncratic problems, said of Collins, "I wanted him to beryllium my dad. I inactive privation him to beryllium my dad."

7th Heaven Costars, WB President Recall How They Reacted to Stephen Collins Molestation Accusations

When London archetypal heard the story, helium thought it had to beryllium astir idiosyncratic else.

"I was proceeding immoderate buzzings of it, but I wasn’t putting it with my Stephen Collins," the Mallrats prima said, "because there’s not a accidental successful hellhole my Stephen Collins is being accused of these things. You don’t impeach saints of things."

Garth Ancier, the founding president of programming astatine 7th Heaven network The WB, concurred successful the ID series, saying, "It really does not enactment up with the Stephen Collins I knew, astatine all." But, helium added, erstwhile helium archetypal reacted helium hadn't yet heard the details Collins admitted to successful the recording.

Searles said helium didn't perceive to the recording, recalling that, astatine the time, "It was conscionable maine conscionable trying to, you know, instrumentality your caput successful the soil benignant of thing."

Searles is shown watching Collins' 2014 20/20 interview—in which helium denied being a pedophile but admitted to inappropriate touching with a miss arsenic young arsenic 10 and exposing himself to 2 different underage girls—for the archetypal time.

"I'm benignant of, like, shaking close now," Searles said, noting that helium ne'er knew 1 of the girls was 10. "I person a knot successful my stomach."

Jeremy London Had a Really Hard Time Processing That Stephen Collins Admitted to Misconduct With 3 Girls

"Something happened. I don't cognize what happened," helium recalled reasoning erstwhile the communicative came out. "You’re messing with idiosyncratic that I emotion and attraction about. To spot anybody messing with him, it inactive makes my humor boil."

At the aforesaid time, speaking arsenic a dada and reasoning of young victims, London added, "Stephen Collins would beryllium a dormant antheral if that was my child."