Collin Gosselin is 22 now, and he’s telling his side of the story. In his new memoir,“In the Shadow of Eight,”he alleges that during his pre-teens, Kate Gosselin had a small room built in their unfinished basement, a space he calls a“holding cell,”where he says he was isolated for two years. He describes surveillance cameras, an air mattress, and being brought upstairs to eat only after his seven siblings had finished. In his words:“I was trapped.”
Kate has not addressed this specific claim publicly, but she has denied prior allegations from Collin, pointing to his psychiatric diagnoses and history of behavior issues. Jon Gosselin was granted sole custody of Collin in 2018, and Collin has lived away from Kate since then. The memoir adds new details to a family saga that’s been playing out in tabloids and court filings for years.
The story is reigniting a bigger conversation about the children of reality TV and what they owe the public, if anything. Collin is choosing to speak now, on his own terms, in his own words. Where do you land on this one?
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