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It’s protected to say we didn’t see the next coming.
On August 8, Collin Gosselin uploaded a heartfelt and stunning message to his seven brothers and sisters — together with those he reportedly hasn’t spoken to in YEARS.
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“Born to be a team, us against the world,” Collin — brother to Alexis, Aeden, Hannah, Leah and Joel, in addition to 24-year-old twins Mady and Cara — wrote over an outdated household picture shared to TikTok.
The put up then switches to a snapshot (above) of Collin Gosselin driving alone in his automobile.
The textual content beneath the second picture says, “Forced to do it alone, and wonder everyday what our lives could’ve looked like.”
The 21-year added Adele’s ballad “Hometown Glory” to the put up and wrote within the accompanying caption:
“Forced apart, pitted against each other. All the fame and money in the world, but what about kids being kids?”
Throughout his interview with Leisure Tonight, Collin Gosselin spoke frankly concerning the horrors of his childhood. (Picture Credit score: YouTube/Leisure Tonight)
The previous actuality tv star continued as follows:
“I will always love them more than anything. The tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could’ve shared. I love you guys.”
There’s A LOT behind this message.
In 2016, mom Kate Gosselin despatched her son to a program for what she stated have been his “special needs,” telling Folks Journal again then:
“(There’s) a fairly fluid diagnosis of what those needs are, but he needs to learn certain strategies to help him deal with things. This has been a struggle we’ve had for a very long time, and it’s one I’ve dealt with on my own.”
Kate Gosselin of ‘Kate Plus Date’ speaks onstage through the TLC portion of the Discovery Communications Winter 2019 TCA Tour on the Langham Lodge on February 12, 2019 in Pasadena, California. (Photograph by Amanda Edwards/Getty Pictures for Discovery)
Collin finally penned a letter to his dad Jon, who finally managed to get Collin out of this program.
Over the previous a number of years, Collin and sister Hannah have lived with Jon whereas the remainder of their siblings have lived with their mother — and there’s been subsequent to no contact between any of them.
Final 12 months, in the meantime, Collin leveled VERY severe allegations in opposition to Kate Gosselin.
“It was a very, very emotionally abusive relationship,” Collin advised The U.S. Solar in a video interview in 2024.
“My mom had a room in-built our unfinished part of the storage basement. She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window within the nook and it was bolt-locked from the skin. It was like a containment room, and it had a mattress on the ground and that’s how I lived…
“When my mother would put me in that room multiple times, she had zip-tied my hands and feet together and bolt-locked the door, turned the lights off and had cameras there just watching me.”
Collin Gosselin made some stunning allegations about his mom throughout a latest interview. Stunning, however not stunning. (Picture Credit score: Leisure Tonight)
Beforehand, in 2022, a tear-soaked Collin advised TODAY: “I have not spoken to my siblings in probably five or six years now. It’s tough.”
For her half, Kate has denied most of Collin’s allegations, citing his wayward conduct any time the subject has been raised.
“Unfortunately, I believe Collin remains a very troubled young man who continues to need a lot of help,” Kate wrote in July 2023. “His brothers and sisters and I have not been directly involved in his life due to his history of unpredictable behavior and violent tendencies toward us.”
Added Kate again then of Collin and her ex-husband:
“I’ve kept quiet for a LONG time but I’m tired of Collin and Jon controlling what has become my narrative— and it’s ALL false. Time to take back my own story!”
Kate Gosselin at The Levi’s Retailer Occasions Sq. on June 11, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Michael Loccisano/Getty Pictures)
Collin has stated that his mom “drove a social barrier between” him and his siblings.
This new video seems to be his first step in ages to breaking down that barrier.
In October 2024, the younger artificial it clear he was open to a dialog along with his mom… within the hope it might result in a reunion along with his different relations.
“First and foremost, my relationship with my brothers and sisters is of top priority to me,” Collin advised this outlet.
“And I think the only way that my mother and I would be able to reconnect and fix our relationship in the future is, if she would just come forward with the truth and all the things that she has kept under wraps.”
