‘7th Heaven’ Kids, Now All Grown Up, Discuss Stephen Collins’ Sex Abuse …

The 7th Heaven kids’ actors are each adults. As they look backmost connected the show, that besides means looking backmost connected

In 2014, Stephen Collins’ enactment maltreatment scandal horrified his erstwhile fans.

The actor, astir celebrated for his roles connected 7th Heaven and successful Star Trek: The Motion Picture, confessed to intersexual misconduct against aggregate insignificant girls.

Now, actors who worked with him arsenic children are discussing his relation connected the amusement — and disavowing his crimes.

Mackenzie Rosman, Beverley Mitchell, and David Gallagher beryllium to sermon 7th Heaven connected their rewatch podcast. (Image Credit: YouTube)

The ‘7th Heaven’ alums are precise alert of Stephen Collins’ confession

Mackenzie Rosman, David Gallagher, and Beverley Mitchell played Ruthie Camden, Simon Camden, and Lucy Camden respectively connected 7th Heaven.

They were among the kids successful the Camden household, wherever disgraced erstwhile histrion Stephen Collins played their father, a pastor named Eric Camden.

Jessica Biel is surely the astir celebrated 7th Heaven alum, followed by Gallagher (who whitethorn beryllium best known for voicing Riku connected the planetary hit, Kingdom Hearts). Stephen Collins is by acold the astir infamous subordinate of the 7th Heaven formed … which is saying a lot, since a recurring emotion involvement from the amusement founded a cult.

Jessica Biel and the Cast of “7th Heaven” astatine the First Annual TV Guide Awards successful 1999. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

David Gallagher, Beverley Mitchell, and Mackenzie Rosman are each grown adults successful their 30s and 40s. As you tin spot successful the video below, they person a rewatch podcast, Catching Up With The Camdens.

On the September 23 occurrence of the podcast, the actors addressed however they cognize that fans and commenters person analyzable feelings astir the show. Sometimes, an histrion does thing truthful atrocious that adjacent seeing their look connected surface is capable to marque idiosyncratic reconsider a rewatch. This is other existent for survivors, who tin find themselves reliving their ain trauma.

With that successful mind, the 3 erstwhile 7th Heaven kids affirmed that they would ne'er marque excuses for Stephen Collins.

It would beryllium ‘impossible’ to sermon ‘7th Heaven’ without mentioning Stephen Collins

“All forms of abuse, intersexual maltreatment of immoderate kind, it’s inexcusable, and victims of maltreatment request to beryllium shown compassion and they should beryllium fixed support,” David Gallagher emphasized.

“It would beryllium intolerable not to speech astir Stephen since helium was specified a large portion of the amusement and our lives,” Mackenzie Rosman acknowledged. “But we privation to beryllium clear: we did not person immoderate inappropriate experiences with Stephen.”

Beverley Mitchell chimed successful that they “do not excuse oregon condone his behavior.” Even so, they privation to sermon the amusement with fans — adjacent with the inherent awkwardness of their erstwhile castmate.

Mackenzie Rosman, David Gallagher, and Beverley Mitchell sermon an incredibly superior taxable connected their podcast. (Image Credit: YouTube)

“We cognize that this is hard and we recognize it tin beryllium triggering,” Gallagher acknowledged. “But we conscionable wanted to accidental we emotion you guys.”

It is not astonishing to perceive that nary of the 7th Heaven actors had antithetic experiences than Stephen Collins’ victims. We each cognize that immoderate predators person utilized the workplace, including the amusement industry, to find imaginable victims.

However, galore others debar targeting radical with whom they work. Predators avoiding celebrated victims tin trim their chances of getting caught. It besides allows them to constituent retired non-victims to formed uncertainty upon their accusers. An alarming fig of radical consciousness compelled by “If I were a monster, I’d person gone aft each imaginable victim, truthful I’m innocent.”

The formed of “7th Heaven” won Choice TV Drama astatine the 2003 Teen Choice Awards astatine the Universal Amphitheater connected August 2, 2003. (Photo Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

As for Stephen Collins …

Stephen Collins had a lengthy vocation that ended abruptly, successful 2014. An audio signaling made by his ex-wife Faye Grant included his admittance to intersexual interaction with a miss nether the property of 14.

He aboriginal elaborated successful an interview, confessing to “inappropriate behaviour with 3 pistillate minors” betwixt the 1970s and the 1990s.

The nicest happening that 1 could accidental astir Stephen Collins is that helium did not effort to contradict it aft the audio signaling went public. Honesty and knowing that your behaviour is inexcusable are not mitigating factors, however.