Disgraced ‘7th Heaven’ star Stephen Collins photographed for the first time in 5 years
nypost.comand divorced in 2015. Collins, 76, starred on the WB series for 11 seasons, from 1996 to 2007. He played Reverend Eric Camden, who lived in the fictional town of Glen Oak, California.
Together with his wife Annie (Catherine Hicks), he had seven children, including Matt (Barry Watson), Simon (David Gallagher), Mary (Jessica Biel), Lucy (Beverley Mitchell), Ruthie (Mackenzie Rosman) and twins Sam and David (played by quadruplets Lorenzo, Myrinda, Nikolas and Zachary Brino).
It was a wholesome family drama that was a compatriot of seminal shows like “Dawson’s Creek,” and it launched Jessica Biel. But, a shadow was cast over it in 2014, when it was revealed that Collins had inappropriate sexual contact with three minors from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The star was being investigated by the NYPD’s Special Victims Division after he was allegedly taped admitting to sex crimes involving three underage girls, law-enforcement sources told Page Six in 2014.“There is a formal complaint on file and the incident is being investigated,” a police source said at the time.After this information came to light, “7th Heaven” reruns were pulled from most networks.
