Kate Gosselin has spoken out for the first time regarding her estranged son Collin‘s upcoming tell-all book.
In a series of comments left on her unrelated TikTok posts on Monday and Sunday, the former ‘Kate Plus 8′ star made it clear that she doesn’t want her TikTok followers discussing Collin or his book on her page. After admitting to deleting any comments about Collin or his book that followers left on her TikTok posts, Kate went on to proclaim that Collin’s claims of suffering abuse and neglect at her hand have no truth to them.
“[Must] have someone full-time deleting comments,” one person wrote on Kate’s latest TikTok post about her dog.
“Yep I sure am!” the former reality TV star replied. “This page is about my real life and it’s all about kindness, love, honesty and definitely not for made up accusation discussion!”
“Why are u running from the truth, though?” another person responded.
In response to someone else who accused her of filtering out comments about Collin and his book, Kate implied that the accusations made by her estranged son are “ridiculous.”
“These comments have to be filtered…” the person wrote.
“Yep! No hate here or ridiculous accusations!” Kate responded. “We speak honestly and accurately and are a positive uplifting group here!”
As The Ashley previously reported, Collin is set to release his tell-all book— In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood— in October. The book will reportedly reveal details of the abuse and neglect Collin has claimed he suffered at his mother’s hand for years, as well as the period of time where Kate sent Collin to a residential facility and refused to tell Collin’s father, Jon, where he was. (Jon eventually gained full custody of Collin after getting him out of the facility.)
On Friday, it was reported that Kate is terrified of Collin’s book, a story Collin responded to by posting a blurred-out photo of his mom, along with the quote, “What’s done in darkness will always come to light.”
Collin also reposted a video from a 2025 interview he did in which he challenged Kate to take a polygraph test, since she has always denied that she abused Collin.
While Kate has not responded to Collin’s request to take a lie-detector test, she did tell a fan on Sunday that fans hate her without knowing the whole story.
“Aww I wish u didn’t get hate u get,” one person wrote in the comments section of her post.
“Thank you me either,” Kate responded. “So many ppl think they are experts on my life. They only see bits and pieces and believe everything they read or see even when it doesn’t possibly make sense…crazy!”
Kate has rarely responded to any of the claims Collin has made regarding abuse he suffered as a child. In 2024, Collin spoke out about Kate’s alleged emotional and physical abuse, as well as his belief that Kate sent him to an institution when he was 12 years old because people started noticing the alleged abuse that was happening. Collin claimed that this abuse included Kate zip-tying his hands and feet together and locking him in a basement. Kate, through her attorney, refused to comment on the allegations at the time.
“She has no comment because it’s not going to change the past,” Kate’s lawyer stated, before adding in his own personal sentiments on the accusations. “And I don’t believe she intentionally harmed any of her children in any way, shape or form.”
Kate did, however, release a statement in 2023 when Collin, as well as Jon and their daughter Hannah appeared on VICE TV‘s Dark Side of the 2000s. During the episode, Jon and Collin discussed some of the alleged abuse that Collin suffered from his mom, and Hannah confirmed that Collin was, indeed, kept separated from her and their other siblings. After the episode aired, Kate took to Instagram to make a statement and defend herself. (Her daughter Mady also defended Kate online at the time.)
“I have never wanted to have to do this but I feel I have been backed into a corner and left with no choice,” Kate wrote at the time. “Although it saddens me to do so, I need to speak out now. My son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has received multiple psychiatric diagnosis over the years. For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs.
“The decision to admit him was made by emergency room doctors following one of his many attacks/outbursts— this one involving his use of a weapon. My son’s unpredictable and violent behaviors have sadly continued regularly towards Jon, Hannah and others around him,” Kate wrote, but did not provide examples. “Collin’s distorted perception of reality is one of the many issues that he has always struggled with.”
Kate called Collin’s “complete fabrications” heartbreaking.
“All measures that were taken in our home [regarding Collin] were at the explicit recommendation of his pediatric psychiatrist and/or his team of specialists and were put into place to safeguard every member of our family, our friends, as well as our family pets,” Kate added.
During the 2025 interview that Collin recently reposted, he tells Kate that she is free to ask him about these allegations while he is hooked up to a lie-detector test, too.
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“I would also let her ask [me] questions, like ‘Were you ever violent toward your siblings? Did you ever put your hands on your siblings?’ Stuff like that. I want to get into everything,” he said.
Collin’s book, In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, hits shelves October 13 and is currently available for preorder.
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So she didn’t address the invitation to dual lie detector tests? I’m going to head on over to tiktok and ask her why…
Does any one else remember her journal being found or somehow got out and in it she talks about how violent she was getting with Colin in particular? Mind you, the kids were about 2 or 3 during this time period of her journal writings. I have no doubt she’s every thing Colin says she is.
Honestly, I don’t even need to hear his side because Kate is clearly a liar and a piece of shit parent. My best friend coincidently is treated like Collin and always has been since she was little. She doesn’t have mental health issues but she has health issues with her heart since the day she was born (she was one of the first babies ever to have open heart surgery before she was 24 hours old) and her parents STILL treat her and her kids differently than her sisters and their kids. It’s bizarre and it’s heartbreaking to see but the one thing is that EVERYONE in our community knew/knows that these kids deserve better and that the parents are pieces of shit and no one really trusts them or wants anything to do with them. Honestly, it’s mostly her bitch mom and her dad is controlled by her mom so he goes along with it. I’m sorry but You don’t love a child any less because they have issues of ANY kind. I love my kids the same amount- but in different ways. They have had struggles and I have been there for them through it. I wouldn’t want them feeling alone or isolated like Collin has and how my best friend has. It makes me HATE people like Kate. I’ve never liked her though- It was clear right away that Kate was a trashy, foul person and a poor excuse for a mother. She had those kids to exploit them and the one that wasn’t compliant was abused. Period. Doesn’t surprise me she’s on damage control and is deleting negative comments about her and also that she won’t take the lie detector test. If she has nothing to hide and isn’t who everyone knows she is, then take the stupid test! We believe you Collin!
My question would be does he have autism and if he does how much of his real history does he remember. Cuz I’ll be honest my son has autism and there are big patches of his history he doesn’t remember and he was violent in them I and he talked about him all the time because he doesn’t remember he does remember the stuff when he was much older but he doesn’t remember everything and I’m not giving her an excuse because I think that if it’s there then they should be talked to by a psychiatrist or maybe one of his pediatricians that has history with him but he could have been violent and doesn’t remember it. What she was doing may have been her trying to handle the situation I’m not saying she should have zip tied his hands but I can tell you for a fact I’ve laid my son in the middle of front yard to protect people from him and he doesn’t remember it…
She 100% did what he says and she needs to answer to the law and sit in front of a jury. She is a child abuser and should be charged and put on the sex offenders list. Isn’t she working in a nursing home. She could be abusing one of them. She could easily squash this and sit the lie detector test. Her silence is deafening and she is the type to get away with this shit. She stole their money also and cops could easily find out about that. She is a bitch and I hope she goes done the stairs and not up when she leaves the world.
What did she do to get on a sex offender list?
Those who commit child abuse should be put on the sex offender list with Child Abuse listed or not beside the name. They dont ha e a child abuse offender list.
Colin should just take a lie detector test without his mother and prove it that way. Even though he shouldn’t have to.
If what Collin says is lies (according to Kate), then there is no harm in her doing a lie detector test. So what is she so afraid of if she “did no wrong”?
Even if any of what Kate said were true, it doesn’t come close to explaining why she prevented his father from seeing him for years and why she rarely came to visit. Obviously, he was also deprived of his siblings. No loving mother would put him in and institution AND THEN remove everyone he loved. None of that has to do with anyone’s safety.
Jenelle Evans would. And is doing so as we speak.
This is all typical Kate speak.
We’ve seen how you operate for decades, the truth is very obvious.
I couldn’t even read the rest of the story after reading what she responded to her deleting comments. Those jabs she said of “of honesty love positive etc.” excludes him. It’s like a back handed compliment and this type of berbal abuse from a narcissistic person is probably ALOT of what he had to endure as a child. As someone who has been similar in young childhood, my heart breaks for him and I HOPE he sees it is not him.
Verbal* not berbal 🥸
We only saw a snippet of their daily lives on TV, but it was enough to back up Collin’s claims. Trauma is encoded through a child’s emotions, meaning a sensitive kid like Collin will remember the overwhelming pain, fear and isolation vividly. What Kate downplays as routine discipline, his brain recorded as a direct threat to him. He isn’t making things up; he’s remembering exactly how scary it was to be powerless and alone in that family, due to Kate’s abuse and isolation towards him. #teamCollin
You’re absolutely 100% right. I believe what he has to say is the whole truth. He lived it and now he’s tell is truth.
Pretty sure she would be VERY vocal about what would be shown etc. A controlling narcissist
Of course she doesn’t want to discuss Collin. She wanted to erase him as if he never existed. She should have been the one locked up, not him. And when has Kate Gosselin every said anything happy or positive about anyone?
Herself
Well there’s two things you can do, Kate (that you won’t)
1 – take the polygraph test. Easy peasy, right? You could even make it into a TV special to continue milking that 15 minutes of fame & get a sweet paycheck for your troubles.
2 – file a lawsuit against Colin/the publisher/etc for libel. If you have a case & can prove his claims are false you’d win easily.
But you know what Colin is alleging in his book is legit. So you’ll hide behind “vibes” & “positive energy” & let your son twist in the wind.
What’s done in the darkness will always come to the light indeed.
100% cosign everything you said!! Take the polygraph ma’am. Put up or shut up, Kate!😒
Why would she entertain outburst from him? I can’t believe people can’t see how he is gaslighting her and trying to provoke her and get her attention. She is protecting him by staying quiet.
Hi Kate!
Hi kate. We all saw on the tv show what a shitty parent you were to him! Take the lie detector
You seem… dense, or, you are Kate. everyone that has eyes knows Kate is an abuser. She is pissed because everyone knows even without him coming forwards with all of this, that she is foul and a terrible excuse for a parent. A loving, good parent doesn’t exclude/alienate one child from the bunch regardless- even if he really did have mental health issues. You don’t abandon your child. It’s been clear for years she’s a narcissist.
Votre justice aux États-Unis est différente de la nôtre, en France.
Attendons la sortie du livre de Collin et voir la plainte en diffamation de cette désespérée et oui, le détecteur de mensonges !
Vous, Kate vous avez souvent menti aux tabloïds alors soyons patient et prions pour Collin. Restes fort 💪