Collin Gosselin Opens Up: A Heartfelt Plea from a Sextuplet in a Fractured Family
By Maya Rivers. A wannabe poet waxing lyrical about the article, even if it doesn’t quite deserve it.
Collin Gosselin wrote a raw, reflective message to his siblings on August 8, 2025, sharing longing and love after years of public family conflict. In a brief but powerful TikTok caption over an old family photo, the 21-year-old commented on what might have been, writing that they were “born to be a team” yet were “forced to do it alone” and “pitted against each other.” He affirmed, plainly and repeatedly, “I will always love them more than anything,” even as he mourned the memories lost to time and turmoil.
Let the verse fall gently: childhood captured on camera, commerce and confrontation turning siblinghood into headlines. Collin’s note arrives after years of documented family drama that played out in courtrooms, tabloids and television specials. The Gosselin children—twins Mady and Cara (now 24) and sextuplets Hannah, Collin, Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel (recently turned 21)—grew up under the public lens of Jon & Kate Plus 8. Their parents’ split, custody disputes and other controversies have been reported for more than a decade by multiple outlets, shaping how the siblings saw each other and the world.
Collin’s public expression is especially resonant against the backdrop of his prior interviews. In 2023 he told Vice TV’s Dark Side of the 2000s that he believes his mother fostered separation between him and his siblings, saying she “told them the story one way” while his experience contrasted. Last September, Collin gave a more explosive account to The U.S. Sun alleging that, as a child, he was confined in a room in the family’s unfinished basement with cameras, zip-ties, and a bolt-locked door. Those claims sparked an attorney response: Kate Gosselin’s lawyer, Richard Puelo, told Fox News that she declines to comment because remarks are often “taken out of context” and insisted that the “record speaks for itself” and that “the facts belie the truth.”
The narrative threads are stark: Collin now lives with his father, Jon Gosselin, and sister Hannah; other siblings live with their mother or independently. Social media posts from both parents document selective family gatherings and milestone shout-outs. For example, Kate posted photos marking some of the sextuplets’ 20th and 21st birthdays, while Jon shared images of Collin and Hannah graduating high school in 2023 after they had moved in with him. Hannah celebrated her 21st with their father and his fiancée, Stephanie Lebo, illustrating how family life has splintered into parallel celebrations rather than shared ones.
There is a particular sorrow in Collin’s phrasing: “The tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could’ve shared. I love you guys…” This is confession and elegy rolled into one, a young man counting what was traded for fame, for decisions, for polarizing parental choices. The post doesn’t seek legal action or retribution; it is an emotional ledger — naming absence, reaffirming love, asking implicitly whether reconnection is possible.
As the family reaches new milestones—21st birthdays, graduations, and adult transitions—the question remains which chapters will be written publicly and which will be private. Collin’s message is not a demand but a manual of longing: a small plea for what many celebrity children never get back, the uncomplicated smallness of being simply siblings.
So the poem ends, for now, in a line of open hope and unresolved history: Collin loves them, mourns losses, and wonders aloud about roads not taken. The record of accusations, denials and selective family snapshots will likely continue to ripple in tabloids and talk shows, but on TikTok that day, a son stood in the light of memory and said what a heart often must.
And so, we watch for the next verse: will there be replies, reconciliations, or more revelations? Time, like an old camera, keeps rolling.
And so the tale waits, perhaps for a reunion, perhaps for silence; either way, the sentence remains unfinished.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! News, Vice TV’s Dark Side of the 2000s, The U.S. Sun, Fox News
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