Stephen Collins is no longer holding anything and not leaving behind as he reveals everything during an interview with Katie Couric that was aired on ABC News.
The 67-year-old actor best known for his role as Reverend Eric Camden for the hit T.V. Series 7th Heaven, has revealed his encounter with a 10-year-old girl as well as an older woman who exposed herself to him.
Couric, a Yahoo! Global News Anchor, has questioned Collins about his misbehaviors and the actor pointed out that he has been undergoing therapy for twenty years now due to the things he has done.
The exposes come amid child molestation investigations and a two-year-old divorce battle between Collins and his estranged wife Faye Grant, who was responsible for revealing the shocking information.
He said during the interview that people are made of dark and light parts and a lot of people will be judging him with him coming forward but he said he can't do anything about it anymore and all he could do is tell the truth.
Collins pointed out that he is not a pedophile and is not sexually attracted to children. He also claims that he does not have exhibitionist urges anymore.
He talked about the first incident with the 10-year old. "Well, in 1973, there were two occasions when I exposed myself to this young woman and several months later, she came to visit...and she and I were watching TV alone together and I took her hand and moved it in such a way that she was touching me inappropriately. I knew that something unthinkably wrong had just happened that I couldn't take back," Stephen Collins reveals.
He also noted that it was not gratifying at all and was not exciting and he did it because it was a combination of impulse control and arrogance. He also noted that he is not attracted to underage girls.
He also revealed, "The thing that makes the most sense to me, and this is not an excuse-'cause none of this is an excuse-but I did have someone in my life, when I was between the ages of 10 and 15, an older woman, who repeatedly exposed herself to me. And I think that that distorted my perception in such a way that some part of me thought...'cause I never thought that I was molested, it never occurred to me, that word never crossed my mind as a 10 to 15-year-old boy."
He adds that it might have been the reason for his impulse acts on the three occasions.
