Collin Gosselin Reflects on Being Put Into a Behavioral Facility at 12, Says He Was ‘Constantly Sick’

Collin Gosselin is looking back at his time at a behavioral facility.

Collin, now 22, was sent to the facility when he was just 12 years old by his mom, Kate Gosselin, 51, with the mother of eight citing behavioral and mental health issues at the time.

Reflecting on his time at the institution, in a September 2025 interview with the U.S. Sun, published Wednesday, July 1, Collin claimed that the Kate Plus 8 alum only visited him once, and “for probably about 20 minutes.” During that visit, Collin claimed Kate — who divorced ex-husband Jon Gosselin in 2009 — blamed him for the family fracture, adding that he was in tears after their interaction.

“It was about a year of me being there, and the whole time I had these glasses on and tears coming down my face. I was overweight. I was sick,” Collin told the outlet. “They had me on all these medications.”

“And she’s sitting there looking at her kid, who was clearly not who he used to be, and sick and just out of it,” he continued. “And she’s just telling me that I broke her family, that my siblings want nothing to do with me, all that stuff.”

The interview follows comments Collin — who is set to share more on the family rift in his upcoming memoir, In the Shadow of Eight — made during Vice’s docu-series, Dark Side of the 2000s, in which he accused Kate of sending him to the institution to hide what he claims was abuse.

“I was starting to tell people what was going on at home, and she caught wind of that and had to put me somewhere where I wouldn’t be able to get the secrets out,” he said during the doc.

Kate, meanwhile, denied Collin’s allegations and has consistently claimed mental illness has been behind her son’s accusations.

“My son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years,” Kate said in a statement to People following the Vice special. “For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters, and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment, which proved insufficient for his needs.”

“Unfortunately, I believe Collin remains a very troubled young man who continues to need a lot of help,” she continued. “His 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.”