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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.
“Born to be a crew, us towards 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— brother to Alexis, Aeden, Hannah, Leah and Joel, in addition to 24-year-old twins Mady and Cara — wrote over an outdated household photograph shared to TikTok.
The submit then switches to a snapshot (above) of Collin Gosselin driving alone in his automobile.
The textual content beneath the second photograph says, “Compelled to do it alone, and marvel on a regular basis what our lives may’ve appeared like.”
The 21-year added Adele’s ballad “Hometown Glory” to the submit and wrote within the accompanying caption:
“Compelled aside, pitted towards one another. All the celebrity and cash on this planet, however what about children being children?”
Throughout his interview with Leisure Tonight, Collin Gosselin spoke frankly in regards to the horrors of his childhood. (Picture Credit score: YouTube/Leisure Tonight)The previous actuality tv star continued as follows:
“I’ll all the time love them greater than something. The tears I shed behind closed doorways, desirous about the reminiscences we may’ve shared. I like you guys.”
There’s A LOT behind this message.
In 2016, mom Kate Gosselin despatched her son to a program for what she mentioned had been his “particular wants,” telling Folks Journal again then:
“(There’s) a reasonably fluid prognosis of what these wants are, however he must study sure methods to assist him cope with issues. This has been a wrestle we’ve had for a really very long time, and it’s one I’ve handled alone.”
Kate Gosselin of ‘Kate Plus Date’ speaks onstage throughout 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 ultimately penned a letter to his dad Jon, who ultimately 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 yr, in the meantime, Collin leveled VERY critical allegations towards Kate Gosselin.
“It was a really, very emotionally abusive relationship,” Collin informed 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 mom would put me in that room a number of occasions, she had zip-tied my palms and ft collectively and bolt-locked the door, turned the lights off and had cameras there simply 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 informed TODAY: “I’ve not spoken to my siblings in in all probability 5 or 6 years now. It’s robust.”
For her half, Kate has denied most of Collin’s allegations, citing his wayward conduct any time the subject has been raised.
“Sadly, I consider Collin stays a really troubled younger man who continues to wish a number of assist,” Kate wrote in July 2023. “His brothers and sisters and I’ve not been immediately concerned in his life as a consequence of his historical past of unpredictable conduct and violent tendencies towards us.”
Added Kate again then of Collin and her ex-husband:
“I’ve saved quiet for a LONG time however I’m bored with Collin and Jon controlling what has grow to be my narrative— and it’s ALL false. Time to take again my very 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 mentioned 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 together with his mom… within the hope it may result in a reunion together with his different relations.
“Before everything, my relationship with my brothers and sisters is of high precedence to me,” Collin informed this outlet.
“And I believe the one means that my mom and I’d be capable to reconnect and repair our relationship sooner or later is, if she would simply come ahead with the reality and all of the issues that she has saved underneath wraps.”
