April Price Recalls Stephen Collins’ Apology
Price said that, when she found out about Collins’ 7th Heaven role, her silence started to weigh on her as she worried that what he did to her was “the starting point to a marathon.”
She ended up moving to L.A. to work in entertainment and unexpectedly crossed paths with Collins again in 1997—and Price said he used the opportunity to apologize to her.
She was working on affiliate promos for CBS, she recalled, and saw him on the call sheet. “The moment he saw me, he knew,” Price said. And when no one else was around, she continued, he came up to her and said, “‘I want you to know, what I did was extremely wrong, I feel terrible about it, please forgive me.'”
Price admittedly felt better. She remembered concluding, “He is sorry, he is contrite. So, I kept my mouth shut.” But, she added, “Looking back, I don’t think it was sincere. I think it was damage control.”
In 2014, Collins told People he had an opportunity 15 years after the fact to apologize to one of the three women he was sexually inappropriate with.
“I apologized and she was extraordinarily gracious,” he said. “But after I learned in the course of my treatment that my being direct about such matters could actually make things worse for them by opening old wounds, I have not approached the other two women, one of whom is now in her 50s and the other in her 30s.”
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