She was truly a godsend on set.
Former teen idol Kirk Cameron has revealed how he converted from an atheist to a devout Christian at the age of 17 thanks to divine intervention in the form of a cute actress in a minor role on the set of the hit ’80s sitcom “Growing Pains.”
“The thing that ruined my atheism was a cute girl. She was really cute and I wanted to go on a date with her and she said, ‘Let’s meet this weekend.’ I said, ‘Sure,’ and she gave me her address.
“So where did I show up? At church,” he recalled.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe this. Going to church? I don’t even believe in this.’ But I thought, ‘I’m an actor, I can fake an hour of church service and get through it.'”
Cameron, who is currently filming a children’s show called “The Adventures of Iggy and Mr. Kirk,” which is set to premiere on YouTube in November, said he was sitting in a church pew when the pastor gave him a message that pointed him towards God.
“It made me question things, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there’s so much that I don’t know and don’t understand, and there are amazing people throughout history who believe 100 percent,” the Los Angeles native said.
The father of six shot to fame playing high school student Mike Seaver, a “scholarly lazy guy interested in girls and fun” in “Growing Pains,” and went on to marry one of his co-stars on the show, Chelsea Noble.
The couple live in the Los Angeles area with their four adopted children, Jack, Isabella, Anna, Luke, Olivia and James, ages 22 to 27, and their two biological children.
The popular actor frequently appears on the covers of teen magazines, which she says is “very embarrassing” for kids.
In particular, his son James finds the glamorous photos his mother has stored in a time capsule “humiliating”.
“My dad looks at pictures of me in a tank top and suspenders flexing my biceps, like in the Tiger Beat posters, and he looks at pictures I had when I was 15, flexing my biceps, and he says, ‘Dad, your friends will be embarrassed if they see you…. You should have thought about us kids before you did this,'” Cameron, now 53, laughs.
