Collin Gosselin Posts Emotional Message About His Siblings Being ‘Forced Apart, Pitted Against Each Other’

Kate and Jon Gosselin’s son Collin penned a message to his seven siblings, getting candid about how growing up in the spotlight impacted their relationship.

In a post shared on TikTok on Aug. 7, the 21-year-old Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum shared a throwback photo of himself and his siblings as young children. The photo featured twins Mady and Cara, now 24, and the rest of his sextuplets: Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Leah and Joel.

“Born to be a team, us against the world,” he wrote in the post, which was set to Adele’s 2007 song “Hometown Glory.”

In another photo, a still of Collin in sunglasses inside a car, the sextuplet wrote: “Forced to do it alone, and wonder every day what our lives could’ve looked like.”

“Forced apart, pitted against each other,” he added in the caption. “All the fame and money in the world, but what about kids being kids?”

“I will always love them more than anything,” Collin continued. “The tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could’ve shared. I love you guys.”

In the comments section, the former reality TV star also answered questions about what his relationship looks like with some of his siblings now, including sister Hannah.

“I just saw [Hannah] today!” he said. “She was worried her car wouldn’t pass inspection so I was looking at it for her. She’s so funny and I love her [so much]. It makes my day whenever I see her, but we’re both so busy with work, school etc.”

Collin, who is estranged from his mother, also followed up on the previous abuse allegations he made against his mom in September, claiming in a comment that he faced “physical and emotional abuse…while having to be an animal in her circus on TV.”

“Being locked up, isolated, zip tied. Being sent away because I didn’t fit into an equation,” he wrote. “Having one visit from her after being completely cut off with no contact at 12 years old, in which the whole visit was her telling me how I deserved the situation I was in because I ‘destroyed our family.’ Yeah I’m sorry, but I will never ‘understand’ that. I will break the cycle that she couldn’t.”

The former U.S. Marine also wrote about wanting to have children of his own someday, and raising them differently from the way he was brought up.

“I can’t wait to have kids and teach them the importance of siblings,” he said. “I tell all my friends who have siblings to always value their siblings and hold each other close.”

In September, Collin brought new allegations against his mother in an interview with The Sun, claiming he was abused by Kate starting when he was 8 or 9 years old. He alleged that he was confined and “isolated” from his other seven siblings by Kate and that he was “a scapegoat” for his mother’s problems and often took “the brute end of things.”

“My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement,” he alleged to the outlet. “She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and it was bolt-locked from the outside. It was like a containment room, literally, and it had a mattress on the floor and that’s how I lived.”

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In an interview with Fox News soon after, Kate’s attorney Richard Puleo defended his client amid the accusations by Collin that he was mistreated by Kate. Puleo declined to comment on the newest claims that Kate physically “isolated” him from his other siblings in a locked room.

“She never wants to comment because she always knows that this gets taken out of context,” Puleo told the outlet. “She doesn’t want to comment. Doesn’t need to. The record speaks for itself.”

One of Collin’s sisters Mady also previously made her own allegations against her younger brother, claiming in an Instagram post in July 2023 that she no longer speaks to Collin because of his past alleged physical threats toward her.

“I do not owe my allegiance to any person(s) who has physically threatened me and every member of my immediate family (some incidents as recent as last year),” she wrote, in part. “Further, I will never allow someone who has exhibited hateful and even violent behavior toward others based on their racial identity, gender identity, or religious beliefs to be in my life.” 

When Jon and Kate finalized their divorce in 2009, Kate was awarded custody of their children. In 2016, she sent Collin to a behavioral health institution in Philadelphia for what she previously claimed to be “unpredictable and violent behavior” when he was 12 years old.

In 2018, Collin left the behavioral program at age 14, and his father Jon was awarded custody of both him and his sister Hannah. Both went on to graduate from high school in June 2023, and Collin opened up about his dreams of becoming a U.S. Marine. He eventually went on to enlist and began training camp before being discharged in August 2023.