July 19, 2023 |
2:31pm
Collin Gosselin has not communicated with six of his seven siblings in nearly a decade — and he blames his estranged mom, Kate Gosselin, for it.
“I think my mom kind of drove a social barrier between us,” the 19-year-old said in Vice TV’s new episode of the “Dark Side of the 2000s,” titled “Jon & Kate: Family Circus.”
“She told them the story one way, and, obviously, I see the story a different way.”
Kate, 48, sent Collin to a mental health institution when he was 12 years old in 2016.
She told media outlets at the time that it was because her son had “special needs.”
However, Collin has since alleged that his mom had been “abusive” to him and that she wanted to send him away so he would not reveal the family’s deep, dark secrets.
Collin Gosselin alleges he hasn’t spoken to six of his seven siblings because mom Kate Gosselin drove a “social barrier between” them.Vice
Page Six has reached out to Kate for comment but did not immediately hear back. She previously denied the allegations in a televised interview with “Good Morning America.”
In 2018, an institutionalized Collin sent a handwritten letter using crayons to his father, Jon Gosselin, who had already been divorced from Kate since 2009.
The young kid begged his father to free him from Fairmount Behavioral Health Institute in Philadelphia, which eventually led to the patriarch filing for full custody of his son.
Kate previously said she sent Collin to an institution because he had “special needs.”Vice
Jon had also obtained custody of Hannah Gosselin in 2016, but four of his sextuplets, Leah, Alexis, Aaden and Joel, and twins, Madelyn and Cara, still live with Kate.
The custody battle caused a rift between the family, particularly with Collin, and the siblings living with their mom have not spoken to their brother since 2016.
“They don’t talk to Collin,” Hannah reaffirmed in the Vice doc. “They decided to not have a relationship with him.”
Jon Gosselin’s custody battle with Kate caused a rift between the siblings.kateplusmy8/Instagram
The 19-year-old said that she, too, did not speak to Collin when he was in the facility because they were kept out of the loop about the truth.
“We didn’t even know where he was, so that was a big thing for me because I couldn’t comprehend why my mom would do that to one of our siblings, you know, her own kid,” Hannah said. “That is, like, a really dark part of our past.”
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Collin speculated that his mother had brainwashed his brothers and sisters.
Collin, seen here with Hannah and Jon, has said he wants to reconnect with his other brothers and sisters.ViceTv
In November 2022, the high school grad shared that he wanted to reconnect with his siblings but did not want to force them into having a relationship with him.
“I want to respect their space and their time and respect how they feel about everything, so I’m kind of just waiting for the day that they reach out,” he previously told “Entertainment Tonight.”
“I don’t want to reach out. I don’t want to invade their space,” Collin added. “I’d rather just let them do it on their own terms.”
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