This news makes TV show 7th Heaven seem not so heavenly anymore…

In a startling and very open confession, actor Stephen Collins, who played the lovely dad in the TV sitcom, has admitted to “having molested and exposed himself to multiple underage girls”.

Collins and soon-to-be ex-wife Faye Grant went to a therapy session in 2012, where Grant actually recorded the session, unbeknownst to Collins.

“You hear Collins flatly confess to molesting an 11-year-old New York girl — a relative of his first wife — saying, “There was one moment of touching where her hand, I put her hand on my penis.” He also acknowledges exposing himself to the girl “a couple of times” … he says when she was 11, 12 and 13.”

The NYP currently has the tape, with Grant saying it was not her who leaked the tape to the media.

Collins has retired from the Screen Actors Guild, with networks pulling 7th Heaven from airing.

Let’s hope Grant finalises her divorce ASAP and clears her life of this man.

Check out TMZ and Gawker