Collin Gosselin Alleges Mom Kate Gosselin Once Bound Him With Zip Ties

Previously, Kate’s lawyer Richard Puleo shared in a 2024 statement toThe Sun regarding the matter that “there’s always two sides to every story” and “I think she did whatever she did to protect herself and her family from some of his troubled behavior as a child.”

In June, Kate referred to her son’s accusations as “ridiculous” in her TikTok comments section, adding that her “page is about my real life and it’s all about kindness, love, honesty and definitely not for made up accusation discussion!”

As for what Collin recalls most about the alleged incident?

“I remember the pressure more than the pain,” he wrote in the book. “The burning, the way circulation cut off so fast it felt like my hands and feet were disappearing.”

All the while, the 22-year-old alleges that Kate remained silent as she bound his limbs, which he recalls “was worse than yelling.”

And after Collin was adequately restrained, he writes in the book that Kate “grabbed me by my wrists, pulled me up into a standing position and then threw me down, slamming my tailbone against the hard floor.”

“When she began to speak, her voice came fast and loud, cutting straight through me,” he wrote, recalling Kate yelling, “‘You’re a burden, Collin! You’re a burden to this family!’”

Kate then allegedly told him, “You brought this on yourself,” before walking away.

Collin says he was then left bound in the basement for several hours.

“She turned off the light and left, telling me to think about what I’d done,” he recalled. “That’s what she always told me, to think. I tried to sit up, but with my wrists and ankles tightly connected that was a challenge. Instead, I went back into fetal position. The little room was dark. No sounds from upstairs. Just the quiet hum of the house continuing without me.”

Later, when Kate came back to cut the zip ties off with kitchen shears, Collin said her demeanor had completely changed. As he put it, “This was the version she used when there were witnesses.”

Indeed, when Collin left the room, he says EMS personnel were waiting to escort the young boy to a nearby hospital before he was later admitted to Fairmont Behavioral Health System in 2016. He spent his 13th and 14th birthdays in the facility before he was released to his father in 2018, who assumed full custody of him that same year. 

The Patriarch previously shared in Vice’s 2023 documentary Dark Side of the 2000s, “I spent $1 million to get my son out. Everything I had, I spent.”

And while the alleged incident happened over a decade ago, Collin still bears the emotional scars of his mom’s harsh words. 

“The words landed,” Collin wrote in the book. “She went on, calling me crazy, dangerous, and other names nobody should ever call a child, things that stuck long after the pain faded. Even now, I can still hear them if I let myself remember.”

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