Kate Gosselin Disputes Collin’s Account of Visits to Mental Health Facility

Kate Gosselin has challenged her son Collin’s account of how often she visited him while he was staying at a mental health facility. Collin wrote in his memoir, In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, that he was sent to a behavioral health facility in 2016, when he was a preteen, and remained there for about two years. He said Kate visited only once and told him he had “broken” the family. Kate responded in a TikTok comment, saying she visited whenever staff believed Collin was stable enough. She said some visits had been arranged but were canceled by the facility because he was considered too unstable, with plans then needing to be rescheduled. Kate also claimed that she tried to contact him each time he was allowed to use the phone. She further alleged that Collin’s behavior was the reason he was placed in the facility. The report notes that Collin has also accused his mother of abusing him during childhood, including an allegation that she once restrained his hands and feet with zip ties. Those claims and Kate’s response are competing accounts; the article does not independently establish either version. The disagreement has become another public exchange between mother and son following the release of Collin’s memoir. Kate’s comment directly disputes his description of the visits, while her explanation places responsibility for missed meetings on the facility’s assessment of his condition. The two accounts leave sharply different impressions of what contact was possible during his time there. Kate and Collin’s statements are part of an ongoing family dispute that has played out in public. The report offers no additional records or independent confirmation about the visits, and the claims about the facility remain attributed to the family members who made them.