Collin Gosselin Breaks His Silence on Estrangement From Mom Kate Gosselin, Reveals Whether He Is Open to a Future Reconciliation
usmagazine.comCandid conversation. Collin Gosselin offered a rare glimpse at his dynamic with mom Kate Gosselin — and addressed a potential reconciliation.During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, which was published on Monday, November 28, the 18-year-old referred to his childhood relationship with Kate, now 47, as “worse than what you would say the average teenage kid goes through” with a parent.“I came to the conclusion that everybody has their own agenda, you know?” Colin explained, referring to his outlook on how he was raised. “My mom had her own agenda, and I don’t know exactly what that was.
But I was put in a tough spot and my agenda was to make it out on top of that tough spot.”Kate and then-husband Jon Gosselin rose to stardom in 2004 after she gave birth to their sextuplets: Alexis, Collin, Joel, Hannah, Leah and Aaden. (The pair, who tied the knot in 1999, also welcomed twin daughters, Mady and Cara, two years prior.)The former couple were originally featured on Discovery Health specials before landing their own series titled Jon & Kate Plus 8 in 2007.
Us Weekly broke the news in May 2009 that Jon, 45, had allegedly been unfaithful and Kate filed for divorce one month later.
The former nurse was awarded full legal custody of all eight kids at the time. While she later placed Collin in Fairmont Behavioral Health Institute, he left after reaching out to his father in 2017.
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