“7th Heaven” star Stephen Collins, who has confessed to molesting at least three girls, called co-star Jessica Biel’s 2000 topless photo shoot “child pornography.”
Biel had felt her role on the show as the young, basketball-playing minister’s daughter Mary Camden was holding her back from doing movies, New York Daily News reported in 2000. So, when she was 17, she did a racy shoot for Gear magazine.
But when the photos went public, Collins was “angry and upset.” (RELATED: Stephen Collins Molested Three Children)
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“‘The press has gotten Jessica Biel’s age wrong in their recent stories about her,’ says Collins, Biel’s minister father on the show. ‘She’s not 18, as has been widely reported. She’s 17, a minor.’
“‘And as such, he said, ‘Jessica’s photo spread was child pornography. I don’t want my kid to get the message that that’s okay.'”
Collins said as the parent of a young daughter, who was 10 at the time, “this is very disturbing to me.”
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His comments, made about 15 years ago, were also around the time he was molesting girls, aged 11-14, multiple times. In the confession his wife secretly taped, Collins said one of the girls was a relative of his first wife, and one was his neighbor.