The Gosselins' Family Feud: Abuse Allegations, Cheating Rumors & More

Kate Gosselin Celebrates Sextuplets' 20th Birthday With Rare Photo

After the 2006 peculiar Surviving Sextuplets and Twins, millions of viewers gladly accepted TLC's invitation to cheque successful much regularly with Jon Gosselin, his woman Kate Gosselin and their 8 kids.

As a result, Jon & Kate Plus 8 was born. Premiering successful 2007, the amusement was a strangely captivating hit, with the how-do-they-make-it-work household dynamic being the archetypal gully for fans watching twins Mady and Cara, calved Oct. 8, 2000, and sextuplets Alexis, Aaden, Collin, Hannah, Leah and Joel, calved May 10, 2004, turn up onscreen.

"The astir communal misperception [is] that I cheated connected my wife, that I near my household [and] that I'm a enactment boy," helium said successful an occurrence of Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now? that aforesaid year. "But my household knows the truth."

Kate, who got afloat ineligible custody of the children successful the divorce, shared successful August 2016 that Collin had "special needs" and was enrolled successful a programme distant from location that was more suited to his "educational and societal challenges." His lack near "a immense hole" successful the family, she told People, but she and his siblings took comfortableness in knowing helium was getting the assistance helium needed.

During the aforesaid sit-down with the family, Mady told the publication she and Cara had nary involvement successful seeing their dad—but if helium wanted to person a narration with them, "talking astir america connected TV is not the mode to marque that happen."

A fewer months later, Jon said helium had an thought of wherever Collin was but didn't cognize for sure, telling Entertainment Tonight he planned to inquire a justice to marque his ex disclose their son's location. Kate pushed back astatine speculation thing nefarious was occurring.

Collin broke his soundlessness connected the ongoing rifts wrong the family on the July 2023 occurrence of Vice TV's Dark Side of the 2000s called "Jon & Kate: Family Circus," saying that helium hadn't talked to immoderate of his siblings different than Hannah since 2016.

"I deliberation my ma benignant of drove a societal obstruction betwixt us," helium observed. "She told them the communicative 1 way, and, obviously, I spot the communicative a antithetic way."

But Collin was open to reconciling with everybody.

"I really, truly anticipation 1 time that we tin each reconnect and enactment the amusement down america and conscionable beryllium siblings again," helium said, "and instrumentality backmost that clip we didn't have."

Afterwards Kate detailed her broadside of the story, penning connected Instagram that she and Collin's siblings had not been "directly progressive successful his beingness owed to his past of unpredictable behaviour and convulsive tendencies." Mady besides alleged connected her Instagram Story, per People, that Collin had "physically threatened maine and each subordinate of my contiguous family (some incidents arsenic caller arsenic past year)."

Still, Collin has indicated his estranged siblings volition ever person a spot successful his heart.

“I emotion my siblings very, precise much,” helium told Entertainment Tonight successful August 2024. “I would ne'er wounded them. I would ne'er trash their names successful the media. But what I bash judge is that my parent is down the things that they accidental successful the media. She’s down their sentiment of me. I deliberation if we knew each different today, we’d beryllium precise bully friends.”

While discussing his past, Collin told the outlet helium didn’t get to accidental goodbye to his siblings erstwhile helium was taken to a installation arsenic a child.

“I didn’t cognize what was going on,” helium continued. “I didn’t cognize wherever I was going. I’ve told each my household this. I mean, that was astir frightened I’ve astir apt ever been successful my life. Up until then, I was astatine location with my siblings, with my mom, and she didn’t springiness maine immoderate accusation connected wherever I was going, what was going on.”

Collin besides alleged his ma visited him erstwhile during his stay. “It was astir for 30 minutes,” helium added, “and the full clip each she did was lecture maine and told maine that I destroyed our family.”

Though Kate did not publically code Collin's allegations astatine the time, successful portion of her July 2023 post, she wrote, “My lad Collin, whom I emotion with each my heart, has received aggregate psychiatric diagnoses implicit the years. For the information of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his ain well-being, helium was placed successful a installation pursuing years of outpatient attraction which proved insufficient for his needs.” 

"When my parent would enactment maine successful that country aggregate times," helium told the outlet, "she had zip-tied my hands and feet unneurotic and bolt locked the door, turned the lights disconnected and had cameras determination conscionable watching me."

Collin besides alleged that due to the fact that of his mother's allegations astir his intelligence wellness his "dream of becoming a U.S. Marine was crushed and it was taken away"—with him saying helium believes the diagnoses helium antecedently received weren't accurate.

Per aesculapian records Collin shared with the publication, helium underwent an valuation past October that reported helium "does not conscionable criteria for immoderate of the diagnoses of concern" and that the doc did not "see grounds to bespeak immoderate different psychiatric diagnoses oregon behavioral upset successful his existent functioning."