Collins' Fall from Grace: A TV Dad's Dark Secret

0:00On May 3rd, Stephen Collins built his fame as the perfect TV dad, Reverend Eric Camden on 7th Heaven, running for 11 seasons. But in October 2014, an audio tape exploded on mine, capturing him confessing to molesting three underage girls between 19, 73 and 1994. The tape came from a secret recording, his then-wife Faye Grand made during a joint therapy session amid their nasty divorce after 27 years. Faye Grand's later owned up publicly, saying he regretted the acts deeply and had worked to make amends, including apologizing to one victim years later. Holly would turn on him fast. 7th Heaven reruns vanished from airwaves, he got booted from films like Ted too, and his four-decade career in hits. From all the president's men to Star Trek fizzled out completely. Fans reeled, victims like April Price spoke up about encounters starting when she was 13, and cops in New York and L.A. investigated but filed. No charges due to expired statutes.

1:00Fast forward, Collins settled the divorce in 2015 and stepped away from the spotlight. Reports say he's now married to Jenny Nagel, a 7th Heaven superfan 40 years his junior, living quietly in a small Iowa town where they hit, daily meditation sessions. This fall from Grace hits hard, showing no one's image is bulletproof, and spotlights the lasting scars for survivors while the guy rebuilds in. Silence. That's the story for today, entertainment and celebrity news, today driven by AI.