Kate Gosselin is still fighting for her life in the comment sections of her TikTok posts, several weeks after her estranged son Collin announced the upcoming release of his tell-all book.
In the comment sections of her posts— which are about her dogs and not related to Collin— fans have been peppering the former ‘Kate Plus 8’ star with questions and comments regarding her son’s claims of abuse and neglect. Kate has always denied abusing Collin, and has stated that she did what she had to do— including committing him to a residential facility as a child— to keep him and her other kids safe.
In a comment posted on Wednesday, Kate reiterated that her actions toward Collin were justified and that she tried her best to raise him. (In comments posted last week, Kate implied that Collin is “mentally ill,” a “skilled manipulator” and more, and stated that she would take legal action against him if she could.)
When a fan expressed sadness over the hate Kate has been getting (likely due to Collin’s accusations), Kate responded that she tried her best with all of her kids. (As TLC fans know, Kate and her ex-husband Jon have eight kids total: twins Mady and Cara, along with sextuplets– Collin, Aaden, Joel, Hannah, Alexis and Leah.)
“As long as we know in our hearts that we did the absolute best we can for each individual child (which I am confident with zero doubt that I did), that is all we can do,” Kate wrote.
She also hinted that Collin’s behavior as an adult has nothing to do with her.
“How they conduct themselves (with the diagnosis’s they are given), is up to them,” she replied.
While Kate has yet to release an official statement regarding the claims Collin is making in the press lately, she has been relatively outspoken in her TikTok comments. Collin, in turn, has stayed on her neck when it comes to posting about his mother.
After @therealityholic Instagram account posted an old video of Kate that showed her denying her daughter Mady water while the family was on the set of ‘The Today Show,’ Collin took to Instagram to call his mom out.
In the clip, a young Mady expresses several times to Kate that she is really thirsty. Kate tells Mady that she’s thirsty too and asks someone on the set for a bottle of water. Mady looks relieved as someone brings Kate some water. Kate takes the water and drinks it— right in front of Mady without offering her any. Mady even tells her mom, “You’re so lucky!” as she drinks the water in front of her. Kate then mentions that “after this” filming, they’ll “somehow manage to get drinks in here for you.”
Mady can be heard telling her mom that she’s “really, really mean” for “drinking right in front of my face.” Kate, in turn, tells Mady to “be quiet.”
Collin reposted the clip, and added his own commentary.
“Not sharing any water with my siblings is crazy. And this is just a very minuscule example of the things she would do,” he wrote.
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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(Photos: Instagram; TikTok; TLC)
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In interviews with Colin, it says a lot how he literally says he’s not trying to bash his mom, he’s just stating the truth and won’t put up with any lies.
Kate is a narcissist.
Kate is abusive.
Kate is a liar.
And she has proved it over and over again.
Soooo proud of Colin for taking back his power and standing up to her abuse and gaslighting! Anyone who supports Kate or thinks she is a good mom or nice person needs to do some self reflection!
So says the narcissist! My mother an undiagnosed narcissist once (accidentally) slammed my hand in the door. I screamed and said WTF, you saw my hand there because I was putting my kid in the car seat. She turned around to me and vehemently denied doing so despite me screaming in pain and seeing it with my own eyes. I was 30 not a child who could gaslit anymore into believing that something didn’t happen just because my mother said so.
That’s what it’s like dealing with someone like Kate everyday.
One of my children had complex mental health issues. It did get to the point where we had to remove him from the home for the safety of everyone. He stayed with family members from 14-15. It was the state the put him in a specialized foster home when he was almost 16. I was in constant contact with the foster mom. We went to therapy with him twice a month. When he got in trouble at school, we were the ones who went to the school to discuss the issue. When he got in trouble with the law, we went to court with him. We had visits once a month where we would take him out to lunch and try to do something fun, or take him shopping for school supplies or clothes or anything. We made sure everyone knew that our goal was reunification of our family. Sadly, that didn’t happen but it’s not for a lack of effort on our part. He just turned 42 and I haven’t heard from him in over ten years. He chose to walk away and I decided to respect his choice. He made it clear he wanted nothing to do with any family member – even aunts, uncles and cousins. I chased that boy for over twenty years trying to keep him in the family. But, I can look back and know that I did, in fact, fight for him. I advocated for him. I loved him. Did I make mistakes? You betcha. But, I DID do the best I could with what I knew and with what resources were available to me at the time. My husband actually lost a job because he was taking so much time off of work to go talk with the school or to go to court or to advocate for this kiddo. Yes, he was removed from the home, but he wasn’t removed from the family until it was his choice. You don’t just lock your kid up and forget they exist.
There is something seriously wrong with the parents if a child has made the very hard choice to have nothing to do with them.I foundout my dad was dead last Friday and celebrated with pizza. I can’t remember when I last got rhe greatest news. I dont talk to my birth giver either so I may party when she dies too
Hugs Kitty Mama, dealing with a difficult teen myself these days and having lived with a juvenile delinquent cousin as a kid this new situation is unlocking my trauma. The conversation has moved to how this affects the other children in the home. It’s been a tough year and even the excitement of a family vacation is marred by his new personal setbacks. It’s so hard and painful but what I told my husband is that I don’t want to get to the end of this situation and say we didn’t do everything in our power to help him.
The thing is if you 100% know you are a good person, mother, father, sister, brother, employee, friend, wife, husband, etc… you don’t feel any need to say it outloud or post it on social media – because you know.
People were blind to how terrible Kate was when the show aired and they are still fooled! Do they not remember the aired abuse, the terrible things she’d say, the revolving door of help and family members, the people that were closest to her that spoke out about how terrible she was, her own sister in law writing a blog about the terrible person she is? I don’t get it!
He was a small child with seven siblings. I kinda doubt everything she says. He was a small child not an evil monster
Are her eyes permanently in wide crazy mode now? They didn’t use to look like that. Facelift gone bad? And we all saw her abuse. Nice try, honey. The amount of Kate fans over on People actively attacking Colin just made me cancel my subscription. “Which is it, Colin? You want the money from the show or you never wanted to be on it in the first place? You can’t have both!” Literal comment that was posted. And FYI, it’s BOTH. He can literally say both.
I don’t know of any parent who has “zero doubts”. We all hope our kids will be ok in spite of our all too human inadequacies, but to have zero doubts is so self-righteous. And how does she explain not visiting Colin and not telling Jon where his son was. That’s horrible.
Kate seems to forget that we watched the show and saw her abuse. We saw how she treated her kids. We heard how she talked to them. Many people have read her magazine interviews where she flat out claims with zero remorse that potty training the youngest 6 was a nightmare because she believed the kids were
purposely failing!!!! Seriously Kate? And, she said that Collin was the hardest to train no matter how hard she spanked him or how many times! Hitting your child for potty training accidents Kate?
So the poor little boy gets older and has “anger issues” that you think are dangerous enough to seclude him from the family and later, have him locked up in a mental institution? I’m sorry, but if you can honestly forgive yourself for those kinds of things, let alone deny they ever happened, then YOU are the one with obvious mental illness. You failed your children, but most of all you failed Collin.
Hiw sick, twisted and delusional can one be. Everything wrong with this family is at the hands of Kate and she deserves to be punished for her sins