Love, Stephen Collins" off-putting.
“Why would he say that?”
she wondered, but carried on around Collins as usual - until a few days later.
Stephen Collins on ‘7th Heaven’.Danny Feld/TV Guide/Spelling Prod./Everett
“I look up and I see Stephen Collins.
“Did I just see that?
Did I just see what I thought I saw?”
April Price in ‘Investigation Discovery’.Investigation Discovery
Price recalled asking herself.
“It was so jarring, so unexpected… and I know he saw me standing there.”
He would land the most transformative role of his career a decade later when he was cast as Rev.
Stephen Collins in 2014.Joe Scarnici/FilmMagic
Adding in a20/20interview withKatie Couricdays later thathe himself was sexually harassedin his youth.
I’m absolutely not attracted, physically or sexually attracted, to children.”
With Cindy away at work again, Collins invited himself inside.
Stephen Collins and the rest of the ‘7th Heaven’ cast.Darien Davis/TV Guide/Spelling Prod./Everett
He’s completely exposed."
More inappropriate advances followed, according to Price.
Price said, “I was definitely not comfortable, I’m doing the wince thing.”
By this point Price hadn’t told her aunt or anyone else about the actor’s behavior.
“My stomach just fell.
I’m like, ‘Now I’m actually scared.
I’m in this man’s apartment, I’m in a bathing suit, and he’s naked.
This is bad, this is really bad.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do,'” she recalled.
We didn’t even have a chance to say bye.
I immediately go into her apartment and get in the shower."
Joe Scarnici/FilmMagic
Price went back home after that summer, thinking she’d never see Collins again.
“I’m sitting at table at some point he sees me.
The moment he saw me he knew.
You could see it in his face, the whole countenance, he knew who I was.”
I feel terrible about it, like forgive me."
Though she felt temporary relief at the time, Price now feels differently about it.
“Looking back I don’t think it was sincere,” she said.
Reflecting on this disparity, Price noted, “Sometimes the biggest monsters have the prettiest faces.”
Investigation Discovery’sHollywood Demonspremieres tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ID.
