One actor kept her son’s true paternity a secret for 14 years!

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She wrote, "Why did he seem so intent on getting me out to the balcony, which is only about 3 feet wide — not enough room to have a friendly conversation? Was he thinking about my million-dollar life insurance policy with him as a beneficiary? I could practically see the dollar signs floating above his head. I was sure he was going to toss me off the balcony. One shove and all his troubles would be over. I pictured myself plummeting twelve floors to the pavement."

So, she hid behind suitcases in the top of her closet, where she stayed for hours until he finally left. 

Thomas and Mollie divorced in 2021, the same year that a woman came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against him. His reps declined the LA Times' request for comment at the time.

In her videos, Reesa said, "[When] I made the decision to tell this story, my motive was, I just want to help one person. If there's a woman out there who's like, 'I want to be married, and I met this guy, but something don't seem right...but maybe it's not that bad.' My advice is, honey, just go ahead and do your research. Being single sucks, in my opinion. Sometimes it sucks. But, being married to the wrong person is a type of hell no one should have to go through."

He told People, "If you want to know who I am, John Astin is my father, Michael Tell is my biological father. ... I have a good relationship with Mike. That's who I am. I don't fault anybody, I don't fault myself or Desi, who is like my godfather. I have such a powerful love bond with this man. He's a gorgeous human being."

John considered his "spiritual connection" with Sean to be what truly matters. He said, "The greatest treasures are the treasures of the heart, and Sean is a treasure. We're very close, we have a good time together. ... His biological dad turns out to be a great guy, and we've become friendly. He's a good guy."

Patty denied the results of the paternity test.

In 1993, his affair exploded across the British tabloids in a scandal known as "Tampongate" (or "Camillagate"). The press published the full transcript of a very intimate phone call between Charles and Camilla where he said that he wanted to "live inside [her] trousers" and joked about being reincarnated as her tampon.

Charles and Camilla were first photographed as a couple in 1999. They got married in 2005. 

Jen added, "People can judge me all they want. I'm dealing with it how I'm dealing with it. Secrets and hiding are what I believe helped make all this possible, so the way that I'm dealing with it is by not having any secrets. … I never, ever, ever in my life told this man a lie."

Jen's rep and Brian didn't respond to People's requests for comment at the time.

He said, "I was wrong for obviously lying, and I shouldn't have been in that position... I dealt with all this drama, and then at that point just realize… I finally got the balls to say, 'Hey, listen, I'm not ready for this, I'm sorry.' At that point, I was not ready to settle down. I wasn't man enough to know how to go about handling it."

The "horrible" situation spurred Ali to make several positive life changes, such as taking more ownership of her modeling career. She told the Unfolding Leadership podcast, "I look back on that situation, which was horrible, and I thank God every single day, because it changed me as a woman. It changed the way…I walk through this world, 100 percent. I am so much better because that happened. I am forever grateful for that."

He continued, "The publication of the recording has resulted in assumptions and innuendos about what I did that go far beyond what actually occurred. As difficult as this is, I want people to know the truth."

No charges were ever filed against Stephen because of the statute of limitations. He has not acted since 2014. He and Faye finalized their divorce in 2015, and in 2019, he married Jenny Nagel, a woman 40 years younger than him, who Dr. Drew Pinsky described as a 7th Heaven superfan.

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