Yahoo News Jon Gosselin Says Son Collin Is 'Moving Forward' at Penn State amid Estrangement from Mom Kate
"He's just moving forward past everything that happened to him," Jon said of Collin, who recently came forward with abuse allegations against mom Kate Gosselin and revealed he was discharged by the Marines
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Collin GosselinJon Gosselin says his son Collin is starting a new chapter after he was discharged from the Marines.
The father of eight told TMZ that Collin is now a freshman at Penn State, sharing, "He’s at college. He's doing really well. He's just moving forward past everything that happened to him.”
Following Jon and Kate Gosselin finalizing their divorce in 2009, Kate eventually was awarded custody of their children and sent Collin to an institution for what she claimed to be "unpredictable and violent behavior" when he was 12 years old.
Last month, the former Kate Plus 8 child star, now 20, told Entertainment Tonight that he was discharged from the Marines after they discovered he had been “in an institution at one point in my life." He noted that he plans to appeal the decision.
Earlier this month, the college student also came forward with allegations of abuse against his mother, which were later denied by Kate's lawyer.
When asked about his son’s decision to speak about the alleged abuse, Jon told TMZ, “That was closure for him, I believe.”
However, Jon doesn’t see a reconciliation happening between Collin and Kate anytime soon. He explained, “I mean if I had to predict, I don’t think that will ever happen just because there is much animosity.”
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From left: Collin Gosselin and Kate GosselinDuring an interview with The Sun on Sept. 10, Collin described the alleged abuse he endured while living with the Kate Plus 8 alum.
"My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement," he claimed. "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."
Collin alleged he was contained in that room for the majority of the day, and eventually, he “never really went outside,” even stopping school. "I never played with [my siblings]. I was kept there. It was literally containment,” he claimed before alleging physical abuse at the hands of his reality star mom.
"My mother at many, many times, and most of the time, became physically aggressive, verbally, very abusive with the things she would say," Collin alleged, labeling their relationship as "very emotionally abusive.”
He continued to say he didn't "know any better" as a child, but now, he sees things more clearly.
"When my mother would put me in that room multiple times, 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," he claimed.
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Kate’s lawyer Richard Puelo responded to Collin’s abuse allegations in an interview with Fox News but 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."
"The facts belie the truth. Whatever took place, the ones that are truthful are the ones that took place… She has no comment because it’s not going to change the past. And I don’t believe she intentionally harmed any of her children in any way, shape or form," he claimed.
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