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Kate Gosselin’s Lawyer Addresses Her Son Collin’s Abuse Allegations
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Date:2025-04-11 15:39:01
Kate Gosselin doesn’t want to add to the discourse surrounding her parenting of estranged son Collin Gosselin.
After the 20-year-old—whose dad is Jon Gosselin—recently accused his mother of zip-tying his hands and feet together and keeping him contained in a bolt-locked room with cameras and a mattress on the floor as a kid, Kate’s lawyer Richard Puelo addressed the allegations.
"She never wants to comment because she always knows that this gets taken out of context," Puelo told Fox News Sept. 11. "She doesn't want to comment. Doesn’t need to. The record speaks for itself."
He continued, "The facts belie the truth. Whatever took place, the ones that are truthful are the ones that took place."
E! News has reached out to reps for Kate, Collin and Jon for comment but has not yet heard back.
Collin, who now lives with his father and sister Hannah Gosselin, has been estranged from his mother and his remaining six siblings since 2018 after a two-year stint in the facility that the Kate Plus 8 star placed him in. (Collin told Entertainment Tonight in August that Kate only visited him once while he was in the facility).
In his new interview, Collin detailed his allegations against Kate, telling The U.S. Sun, “My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement. 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, and it had a mattress on the floor and that's how I lived.”
Collin alleged that his mother regularly became “physically aggressive and verbally very abusive.”
He also alleged that he never really went outside and stopped going to school. “When my mother would put me in that room multiple times,” Collin said, “she had zip-tied my hands and feet together and bolt locked the door, turned the lights off and had cameras there just watching me."
Jon told The U.S. Sun he believes his son’s story, adding he was told the basement room is still in the home.
"My friends' in-laws bought our house,” he revealed, “and one time they asked me 'Why is there a room in the basement with a bed and a lock on the outside?'”
He added of his son, "It must have been terrifying for him."
As for Kate, her attorney told Fox News there’s a reason she’s not speaking out. “She has no comment because it’s not going to change the past,” Puelo said. “And I don’t believe she intentionally harmed any of her children in any way, shape or form.”
Puelo also added, “I can assure you that if she was harassing or abusing her child, given her public exposure, the authorities would have taken the time and removed him from the family and put him in special services and would have probably had [Kate] charged with abuse. None of that happened.”
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