Kate Gosselin gushed over how well her children “get along” after her estranged son, Collin, penned an emotional open letter, seemingly blaming her for his rift with his siblings.
“The most wonderful thing is when the kids come home for the holidays and they’re all catching up because they live in different places or go to different colleges,” Kate said as she sewed a button on son Joel’s jacket in a TikTok video shared Friday. “I get to listen to them catching up and be a part of that.”
“We cook big meals together,” she added. “It’s really loud here and I love it, I love hearing their laughter. They get along really great, and it’s really wonderful.”
The “Jon and Kate Plus 8” alum — who shares Collin’s fellow sextuplets Alexis, Leah, Hannah, Aaden and Joel, 21, and twin sisters Madelyn and Cara, 24, with ex Jon Gosselin — added that daughter Hannah “just called” her to help “get an Amazon list together of all the things that I have mentioned and people keep asking me for, so guess what? It’s on my TikTok profile thing now.”
She continued, “I know, I’m really excited because I was asking her for help. She’s really good.”
A rep for Collin did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
Kate’s new video comes after Collin took to the platform on August 7 to share a letter with his siblings, insinuating their mother, 50, “forced” them “apart.”
“Born to be a team, us against the world…” he wrote atop a throwback pic of the siblings, with Adele’s song “Hometown Glory” playing in the background. On a second photo of himself in a vehicle, he wrote, “Forced to do it alone, and wonder every day what our lives could’ve looked like.”
In the caption, Collin said he felt that they were “forced apart, pitted against each other.”
“All the fame and money in the world, but what about kids being kids? I will always love them more than anything,” he wrote.
Kate subsequently took to TikTok on Monday to reveal that she’s returned to her career as a nurse amid financial pressure — and seemingly responded to Collin’s social media post.
As the reality TV star loaded her dishwasher, a follower took to the comments thread to post a screenshot of Collin’s TikTok. “He knows why..😢” she simply responded.
After Kate and her ex-husband, 48, divorced in 2009, she obtained custody of all their children and took part in a spinoff, “Kate Plus 8,” between 2015 and 2017. But after sending Collin to Fairmount Behavioral Health Institute in 2016 at age 12 for alleged behavioral issues, a family feud emerged.
Collin reached out to his father after two years in the facility, with Jon eventually obtaining sole physical custody of his son. Hannah also went to live with her father, with the remaining children apparently siding with their mother.
Jon leveled accusations that Kate “institutionalized [Collin] without a diagnosis and then created a diagnosis” in a 2019 appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show.”
In a 2024 interview with the Sun, Collin accused Kate of alleged abuse including zip-tying and locking him in a basement.
Through a lawyer, Kate strenuously denied she “intentionally” harmed him and told the Sun she “did what she did to protect herself and her family” from allegedly “troubled behavior.”
Additionally, she stated in a now-deleted social media post that Collin’s “brothers and sisters and I have not been directly involved in his life due to his history of unpredictable behavior and violent tendencies towards us.”
The “Dancing With the Stars” alum — who briefly returned to TV in a 2023 episode of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” before bowing out due to an injury — said in Monday’s TikTok that she’d experienced a “sickening” financial downfall following her volatile divorce from Jon.
“Sickening but I was drug [sic] into court constantly and that costs A TON,” she wrote in response to a fan comment about why she returned to her demanding vocation. “Sad bc my kids could have a lot more saved and I could have a retirement saved if it weren’t for lawyers :(“
