- Collin Gosselin looks back on a painful memory with his mother, Kate Gosselin, when he was only 12 years old.
- The 22-year-old claimed in his memoir that Kate had a harsh four-word message for him when she visited him in a mental health facility.
- Colin claimed Kate never visited him again during his stay.
Collin Gosselin, the son of Jon and Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate Plus 8opens up about her fractured relationship with her mother in her new memoir. In an extract from In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood shared by Page six, Collin recalled a painful memory that he said occurred when he was 12 years old and staying in a mental health facility.
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Collin wrote about a conversation he had with his now-estranged mother during what he says was his one and only visit to the facility she sent him to in 2016. When he begged his mother to come home, Colin alleges she said, “You broke our family,” adding, “you’re here because of you.”
During an interview in 2025 with The SunTHE Special Forces: the toughest test in the world The star previously claimed Kate sent him to the facility because he refused to appear with her on Kate Plus 8 reality TV show following his parents’ divorce in 2009.
Collin recalls his mother appearing “disappointed” when she first saw him at the facility, apparently because she was “horrified” by the weight he had gained during his time there. He told how the pair shared a “stiff” hug and claimed Kate ignored him when he told her he “missed” her.
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After speaking to a doctor about his progress, Colin wrote that he approached his mother to “desperately” ask her to leave the facility and return home. However, Kate reportedly told her son that it “wouldn’t be appropriate” and that his seven siblings were “doing so much better” without him.
Kate reportedly started talking about the family’s summer plans as well as the cakes she gave the rest of the kids for their shared birthday.
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Colin, who also claimed his mother refused to accept origami gifts he made for his seven siblings, wrote that he “started sobbing” after hearing the harsh words. After the doctor came back into the room, Kate said she was leaving.
“I don’t remember saying goodbye,” he wrote in his memoir, published October 13. “A nurse escorted me to the pod. It was the first and last time my mother visited me in the facility.”
Kate opened up about her decision to send Collin to a mental institution in a 2023 statement to Peopleclaiming he is “violent” and she placed him there “for my safety, the safety of his siblings, and for his own well-being.” She also said Collin is “a very troubled young man who continues to need a lot of help.”
Collin’s father, Jon, removed him from the facility in 2018, when he gained legal and physical custody of his son.
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