Jon Gosselin clapped again after his ex-wife Kate Gosselin claimed their son Collin Gosselin is “troubled” and in want of psychiatric assist. “Kate posting merciless false accusations relating to Collin appears to be simply one other means for her to justify her inexcusable horrific previous habits towards him,” the previous DJ, 46, instructed the U.S. Sun on Friday, through his rep. “Real love for a kid wouldn’t embrace a mom attacking their son to the general public.”
Jon’s rep claimed that Collin, 19, was lately cleared from an intensive background test and psychological analysis to affix the US Marine Corps, saying, “The federal government’s full diagnoses clearly displays the reality.” They added, “Don’t forget {that a} decide awarded sole authorized and bodily custody of Collin to his father.”
The remarks got here after Kate, 48, responded to feedback Collin made about her in Vice’s show, The Dark Side of the 2000s, the place he alleged that his mom “drove a barrier” between the siblings and accused her of being “abusive” towards him. Kate mentioned she by no means wished to talk out relating to her tough relationship with Collin, however she instructed PEOPLE on Friday, July 21 that she felt she had “no different alternative.”
“I really feel I’ve been backed right into a nook and left with no alternative. Though it saddens me to take action, I would like to talk out now,” Kate started. “My son Collin, whom I like with all my coronary heart, has obtained a number of psychiatric diagnoses through the years,” she alleged. “For the security of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his personal well-being, he was positioned in a facility following years of outpatient therapy which proved inadequate for his wants.”
She added, “Sadly, I imagine Collin stays a really troubled younger man who continues to wish a number of assist. His brothers and sisters and I’ve not been instantly concerned in his life attributable to his historical past of unpredictable habits and violent tendencies in the direction of us.”
Jon and Collin have overtly mentioned Collin’s previous hospitalization when he was 12 years previous. Throughout their look on Tuesday’s Vice TV’s Darkish Facet of the 2000s, Jon revealed that he had spent a considerable quantity, round $1 million, to assist Collin together with his therapy. In a 2019 interview with the Daily Mail, Jon talked about that, at the moment, Collin’s solely recognized medical situation was ADHD, and there have been no different recognized points.
In Kate’s conclusion of her prolonged message, she mentioned, “What his sister Mady posted on social media lately is totally correct and I deeply admire her bravery in doing so.” In a publish to her Instagram on Thursday morning, Mady responded to her brother’s claims, saying, “I don’t owe my allegiance to any individual(s) who has bodily threatened me and each member of my instant household.”
Each Jon and Collin have denied that the 19-year-old engaged in violent conduct at any time. Collin has been estranged from Kate since 2018, when he and his sister Hannah went to dwell with their father. Collin stays estranged from his six different siblings as nicely. They embrace 22-year-old Cara and 4 different sextuplets, Aaden, Alexis, Joel, and Leah.
