Kate Gosselin Under Fire Over ‘Missing’ Son Collin Ahead Of ‘Kate Plus 8’ Premiere


Kate Gosselin and her kids will be back for a new season of Kate Plus 8 next week. Well, at least some of her kids. According to Us Weekly, Kate’s sextuplet son, Collin, will not be featured in the upcoming season of the Gosselin family’s TLC reality show, despite the fact that he is pictured in a promo photo posted by his mom.

Kate Gosselin previously revealed that her son has special needs and that she sent him to a facility for treatment. But her ex-husband, Jon Gosselin, now says that may not be the case. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Jon Gosselin reiterated that he hasn’t seen Collin in over a year-and-a-half and he doesn’t know his exact whereabouts. Jon also said law enforcement officials have not corroborated Kate’s story about their son, and he said that he only sees his other seven children sporadically.

“I have an idea where he is but I don’t really know where he is,” Gosselin told ET. “[Kate] says that Collin is in a special school for special needs kids with behavioral problems… I just go to the bus stop [at Kate’s house] and whoever I get, I get.”

Gosselin revealed that several of his eight children “just stopped coming” to his house and that he had not seen all of his kids together at once in “probably three to four years.”

Jon and Kate Gosselin are parents to 16-year-old twins, Mady and Cara, and 12-year-old sextuplets, Aaden, Collin, Joel, Leah, Alexis, and Hannah. The Gosselin family rose to fame a decade ago on the TLC reality show Jon and Kate Plus 8, but after the couple’s divorce, Kate decided to fly solo with the kids on Kate Plus 8. Now, Kate’s ex-husband blames his wife’s reality show, his unusual custody issues, and strained co-parenting relationship. Jon has said he only regularly sees Hannah, Leah, Aaden, and Joel.

“I think it’s about money,” Gosselin said of his ex’s control over their kids. “I think it’s about filming and money — that if I get any right, I’m not going to sign for my kids to film, and I think that’s her fear. Because then she’ll have no income. It’s like taking your job away.”

Jon Gosselin also urged Kate to “wake up” and ask herself, “What are you doing? What’s the end result?”

He also issued his ex a warning: “You’re not going to film anymore,” Jon said. “We all know that’s going to happen. It’s going to go away, so what’s the end result? You want a divided family… Or do you want all your kids to meet in one place? It’s ridiculous. I don’t even see them on the holidays anymore. It’s like, ridiculous.”

The Kate Plus 8 trailer makes it seem like the Gosselin kids go on lavish vacations and do fun activities with their mom, but Kate’s ex says his kids’ lives are consumed by chores.

“Their chores supersede their homework,” Jon told to ET. “Their chores supersede any activity. Their chores even supersede my custody, so if they don’t get their chores done, they’re not coming to my house.”

Earlier this year, Kate Gosselin and seven of her kids posed for a People magazine cover shoot. At the time, Kate explained to the magazine why one of her sons was missing.

“Collin has special needs,” Kate told People in August. “[There’s] a fairly fluid diagnosis of what those needs are, but he needs to learn certain strategies to help him deal with things. This has been a struggle we’ve had for a very long time, and it’s one I’ve dealt with on my own. I’ve felt very alone in this. By the same token, it’s not something that has only impacted me or him – our entire family has been impacted.”

Kate said her son is enrolled in a program that is “helping him learn the skills he needs to be the best him he can be.”

“We miss him so much, so it’s been hard because there is a huge hole in our family without him here,” Kate said at the time. “But it comforts us to know he’s where he needs to be right now, and I can feel good about that.”

The new season of Kate Gosselin’s reality show premieres Nov. 22 on TLC. Take a look at the Kate Plus 8 trailer below.

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