Stephen Collins: ‘I Am Not A Pedophile!’


Stephen Collins may have come clean, but he claims that despite his actions, he is in no way a pedophile and that he is not attracted to children.

According to Us Weekly, Collins, 67, publicly admitted to sexually abusing young girl’s for the first time since the scandal first made news in October. During an interview with Katie Couric, the 7th Heaven actor admits to acting inappropriately with girls in 1973, 1982, and in 1994.

“In 1973, there were two occasions when I exposed myself to this young woman,” he told Couric. “Several months later, she came to visit and stay with us, with my first wife (Marjorie Weinman) and me. My wife had gone to sleep, and she and I were watching TV alone together… I knew that something unthinkably wrong had just happened that I couldn’t take back.”

According to E! News, while he may have admitted to the sexual abuse, he says he is not a pedophile.

“I am not, I do not fit the either clinical or dictionary definition of it. A pedophile is someone who is mainly or wholly attracted to children. I’m not. I’m not. I had a distortion in my thinking where I acted out in those ways. But I’m absolutely not attracted, physically or sexually attracted to children. I’m just not.”

While Collins claims that he isn’t attracted to children, Couric felt the need to clarify if he had ever been attracted to them in the past. When she asked him if he ever had been, he said no.

“No, I wasn’t. You know, I, I remember talking about this once with a therapist and the therapist saying, assuring me that this, these incidents were such that if… someone with that attraction would have acted many more times, many more. They were, they were terrible and I regret them deeply, but I was not looking … I don’t, I don’t look at young women that way. I don’t and I never did. That may sound incongruous with those actions, but, but those actions, I think, had more to do with that kind of distortion in my thinking and need for attention. It was not a desire to … to be, in any way, in sexual contact with them.”

While Stephen Collins is standing by his statements above, many simply do not believe him, nor are they accepting any apologies from the actor. According to a previous report by the Inquisitr, one of Collins’ victims has come forward and said that she does not accept the actor’s apology and claims that he is minimizing the situation at hand.

“Stephen is minimizing the incident. It was not just a spontaneous touching … that aggression resulted in him ejaculating.”

Do you believe that Stephen Collins is minimizing the incidents from his past? And do you believe that the actor truly isn’t a pedophile? Share your thoughts and opinons in the comments below!

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