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Collin Gosselin<\/strong><\/a> shared his beliefs about why his mom, Kate Gosselin<\/strong><\/a>, institutionalized him when he was 11 years old.<\/p>\n \u201cI was stubborn enough to question my mom,\u201d Collin, 22, said in a September 2025 interview with The U.S. Sun<\/em><\/a>, which was published in full on Saturday, June 27. \u201cI questioned her about everything, and that came before the rebellion of me not wanting to be on camera and be a part of her circus. \u2026 That questioning led to me later not wanting to be on camera, and that really killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate, 51, and ex-husband Jon Gosselin<\/strong> rose to fame with their reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8<\/em>, which aired on Discovery Health and TLC from 2007 to 2017. The series documented the former couple\u2019s journey raising their eight children \u2014 twins Mady<\/strong> and Cara<\/strong>, 25, and sextuplets Collin, Hannah<\/strong>, Aaden<\/strong>, Joel<\/strong>, Alexis<\/strong> and Leah<\/strong>, all 22. After Jon, 49, and Kate divorced in 2009, the series was renamed Kate Plus 8<\/em> and chronicled Kate\u2019s life as a single mom and coparent.<\/p>\n In 2016, Kate sent Collin to a behavioral institution, where he remained for two years. Jon gained full custody of Collin following his release.<\/p>\n In 2023, Collin claimed in a Vice TV interview that Kate sent him away to silence him from speaking out about her alleged abuse, including tying him up in the basement<\/a>. Kate denied the allegations, claiming that she institutionalized her son due to \u201cunpredictable and violent behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n Collin theorized in his interview with The U.S. Sun<\/em> that Kate sent him away to save her own \u201creputation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what reason it was, whether it was her reputation she was saving by sending me away from home, or whether it was the fact that maybe it\u2019s easier to sign a work permit for seven children that are voluntary, instead of seven children that are voluntary and one that\u2019s involuntary,\u201d he said. \u201cSo there are a lot of things to question there.\u201d<\/p>\n He also claimed that his mother visited him in the facility \u201cone time for probably about 20 minutes, and the whole time I was blamed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was about a year of me being there, and the whole time I had these glasses on and tears coming down my face. I was overweight. I was sick. They had me on all these medications,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd she\u2019s sitting there looking at her kid, who was clearly not who he used to be and sick and just out of it. And she\u2019s just telling me that I broke her family, that my siblings want nothing to do with me, all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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