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Sure, of us. It’s actually her.
Final month, Kate Gosselin took the Web by each storm and shock when she formally joined TikTok, sharing a handful of movies of her two German shepherds on the time.
“There’s gonna be a lot of dogs on it. And kids, but mostly dogs and me,” the previous actuality TV star mentioned on July 28. “It’s me. Just wanted to let you know.”
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Slightly below a yr in the past, estranged son Collin went on report with claims of abuse towards his mom, for instance, telling The Solar a couple of “containment room” in her basement that “had a mattress on the floor, and that was 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 continued final September.
In response to this heinous allegation, Gosselin’s lawyer didn’t precisely deny it.
As an alternative, he instructed The Solar that his shopper “did what she did to protect herself and her family” from her son’s “troubled behavior.”
Yikes, huh?
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In 2023, talking to Folks Journal, Kate described Collin as having a “history of unpredictable behavior and violent tendencies” and added:
“[He] has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years. … Collin’s distorted perception of reality is one of the many issues that he has always struggled with.”
It’s all very unhappy.
On August 2, in the meantime, the 50-year-old didn’t point out something about both Collin or daughter Hannah, each of whom stay with their dad and don’t converse to their mom.
As an alternative, she shared particulars about her nursing profession and mentioned of Jon & Kate Plus 8:
“My adult kids are now watching our show with their friends/bf and gfs! Isn’t that cute?”
Kate Gosselin speaks through the HGTV section of the 2019 Winter Tv Critics Affiliation Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on February 12, 2019 in Pasadena, California. (Getty)
Kate shares EIGHT youngsters — 24-year-old twins Mady and Cara and 21-year-old sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah and Joel — with Jon Gosselin, her ex-husband and former costar on Jon & Kate Plus 8, which was later renamed Kate Plus 8.
Kate filed for divorce from Jon in 2009 and the 2 have been on horrible phrases ever since.
Regardless of the accusations of abuse and regardless of her basic demeanor any time she’s in entrance of the digital camera, Kate apparently has a decent-sized fan base.
After one person sympathized along with her on TikTok late final week, stating that they “see major growth and healing here,” the nurse thanked her and replied:
“Your observations are correct. And yes, I am healing and growing every day. Thank goodness:).”
Kate Gosselin at The Levi’s Retailer Occasions Sq. on June 11, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Michael Loccisano/Getty Photographs)
Earlier this yr, Kate’s daughter Hannah mirrored on her expertise rising up as a toddler actuality star in a Teen Vogue profile.
Filming, Hannah instructed the outlet, “made my siblings and I closer to each other, even though it made my parents further from each other,” including that “it’s hard to go back and watch my parents argue.”
They’re nonetheless arguing, too.
In the summertime of 2023, after Kate referring to Collin as “violent,” Jon responded as follows:
“It appears clear that even at present after not seeing her son for the reason that sixth grade, Kate is unable to manage her abusive phrases in the direction of him
“Don’t forget {that a} choose awarded short-term sole authorized and bodily custody of Collin to his father in 2018. Kate by no means even confirmed as much as courtroom and by no means spoke to Collin ever once more.
“At this point, Collin is training to be a Marine in order to serve his country and is unable to respond to his mother’s callus lies.”