‘Jon & Kate Plus 8’ star claims mom ‘zip-tied’ him and ‘locked him in basement as a kid’: report

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the US Sun that was published Monday. He alleged his mother would keep in an area of the basement that was “specially-built” for his punishment, spending hours or even entire days alone in the dark while she monitored him on security cameras.“It was like a containment room, literally,” he told the outlet. “It had a mattress on the floor and that’s how I lived.”Collin alleged that Kate had him admitted to a mental health facility when he was 11 years old after he was diagnosed with several psychiatric conditions he says he never actually had — even sharing private medical records with The Sun as evidence.“It was rough.

I definitely went through it a lot as a kid from my mother’s end. So it was tough,” Collin told the paper.“I just remember being isolated from my siblings and constantly taking the fall for her emotions or the tough things going on in her life,” he continued. “I just remember being a scapegoat and always taking the brute end of things.”Collin’s siblings, however, were not subjected to the same treatment, he said.“I was 100% treated differently [than my siblings],” he said. “I was isolated and I was taken away from them and I didn’t eat dinners with my family.”He said he was barred from playing with his brothers and sisters and “never really had a relationship with them growing up.”The alleged abuse escalated when he was around eight or nine years old.

Around that time, Kate allegedly started regularly locking him in the basement for “most of the day.” After a certain point, he stopped going to school.Collin’s allegations come just weeks after TLC announced it planned to start airing old episodes of the reality show — 13 years after it was abruptly canceled.Kate’s attorney Richard Puleo, who represented her.