Kate Gosselin Reacts to Estranged Son Collin’s Claims That His Siblings Were ‘Forced Apart’ and ‘Pitted Against Each Other’

Kate Gosselin is responding to new claims from her estranged son, Collin.

Earlier this week, the mother of eight posted a TikTok titled “Kitchen talk and tips” where she shared a glimpse of her life after work. In the comments, Kate replied to a screenshot of a post from Collin, where he suggested that she was the reason he and his siblings were “forced apart” and “pitted against each other.”

“He knows why.. 😢,” Kate wrote.

Kate also reacted to fans who supported her in the comments. One person told her, “Looking back now, I can see how you were portrayed as the villain and you weren’t. I apologize for ever thinking that. 🩷”

Kate replied: “Aww I appreciate your words. Forgiven 🥰🥰🥰.”

Another fan admitted they once thought she was “too harsh” on her kids but now views her as “intelligent and organized.” Kate answered: “I was really trying to do my very best… just a bit overzealous at times. But only bc I cared SO SO much about my kids 🥰.”

When asked what she missed most about her days on Kate Plus 8, she said: “I miss our house in Pa. But mainly I miss when the kids were little. Not the stress, just their cuteness. At the time it felt like the days were long.. but in hindsight it sped by. And I’m sad :(”

This came just a day after Collin shared a TikTok with a throwback photo of himself and his siblings — sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Leah, Joel, and older twins Mady and Cara.

“Born to be a team, us against the world,” he wrote on the video, which played Adele’s 2007 song “Hometown Glory.”

A second slide showed him wearing sunglasses with the words: “Forced to do it alone, and wonder every day what our lives could’ve looked like.”

He captioned it: “Forced apart, pitted against each other. All the fame and money in the world, but what about kids being kids? I will always love them more than anything. The tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could’ve shared. I love you guys.”

Collin has been estranged from his mom for years and has accused her of abuse. In response to one comment, he repeated those claims, writing about being “locked up, isolated, zip tied” and sent away when he was 12.

He said during their only visit at the time, Kate told him he “deserved” the situation because he “destroyed our family.” He added: “I will never ‘understand’ that. I will break the cycle that she couldn’t.”

The former U.S. Marine also shared that he hopes to raise his future children differently. “I can’t wait to have kids and teach them the importance of siblings,” he wrote.

In September, Collin told The Sun that Kate abused him when he was around 8 or 9 years old. He claimed she isolated him from his siblings and even built a locked room for him in the basement.

Kate’s lawyer, Richard Puleo, later defended her in an interview with Fox News. He said Kate does not comment because her words often get “taken out of context.”

Kate and her ex-husband Jon Gosselin divorced in 2009, and Kate was given custody of all eight kids. In 2016, she sent 12-year-old Collin to a behavioral health center for what she described as “unpredictable and violent behavior.”

Collin left the program in 2018, and Jon gained custody of him and his sister, Hannah. They graduated high school in 2023, but Collin left the U.S. Marines later that year after training camp.

Meanwhile, his sister Mady accused Collin of making physical threats. In a July 2023 Instagram post, she wrote that she would never let someone with “hateful and violent behavior” toward others — including based on race, gender, or religion — be in her life.