Kate Gosselin’s son Collin will ‘always’ be emotionally ‘affected’ after mom sent him to institution at 11, dad claims
KATE Gosselin's son Collin will "always" be emotionally "affected" after the mom of eight sent him to a special needs institution at 11, his dad has claimed.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, says ex never talks to Collin - and that he is still undergoing therapy after being sent away at such a young age.
Jon said: "I think that will always affect him, but that's something he's going to have to deal with."
"Those are things that he will have to move on from now moving forward.
"The past is the past, but he will work through those issues through therapy.
"And these are questions he's going to have to answer himself, maybe through interviews, through the public or privately."
Jon told DailyMailTV last year that his ex wife "mentally tortured" their sextuplets - and secretly sent Collin to a special needs institution for three years without his knowledge.
Collin sent a heartbreaking letter to his dad from the facility begging for help.
Jon immediately took steps to have him removed from the institution, and gain custody.
Collin is now 15 and excelling at school - and Jon says he's going to leave it up to his son to decide what kinds of relationship he will have with Kate in the future.
Jon told The Sun: "As he grows and matures as a young man and as an adult, I'm going to leave it up to him and his therapist and his team on how he wants to handle his issues.
"And how he wants to handle interacting with his mother moving forward.
"It would be different if he was like 8, 9, 10 years old in how that interaction and growth would have to be, but since he's going to be 16 and in two years will be 18, I think it's important that he decide for himself how he's going to move past it and move forward into adulthood.
"So I think it's important for him to decide for himself how he wants to forgive or forget or anything like that. That's really part of his healing process."
Jon says for now, Kate - the other child in his care - and to Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden, who live with Kate.
But he said the ";door is always open to them."
Jon and Kate also have twins Mady and Cara, 19, who .
"I haven't talked to my other kids that live with Kate at all ... it's up to them to reach out," he said.
"I know Hannah's talked to Leah and Joel once in a while. Collin? I don't think so.
"They haven't spoke to their mother at all, that's really in their hands.
He said Collin and Hannah are both active in therapy after the family drama.
"My two go to therapy and stuff like that and we're working through those kinds of things, but we haven't had an integrated therapy between the other four, the twins and then my two."
This comes after Jon exclusively revealed to The Sun that his
However, he said, the former couple are not on speaking terms, and perhaps never will be.
Jon has been happily , and they live together with Collin, Hannah and her two children, Jesse and Jordan.
He said both his children have a close relationship with their stepmom Colleen and they "confide in her as a mother."
The whole blended family has grown even closer during quarantine.
Jon gushed: "Health-wise, we're good and you know, we're happy and our family's really coming together.
"The pandemic, even though it's a bad thing has really drawn our family closer.
"Jesse, Jordan, Hannah and Collin have all developed closer relationships with each other.
"They've been confined to a house but they have actually grown together over the last two months and got to know each other better.
"We've all really got to know each other better than before because no one's coming in or out of the house. It's just us.
"I think that's super important and we're a very diverse family and you can kind of see the mentorship from Colleen's kids down to my kids.
"It's really amazing to see."
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While Jon and Colleen have been working in a hospital, he has slammed Kate for also during the pandemic.
Kate and her attorney did not respond to The Sun's requests for comment.
In the past, she has denied mistreating any of her kids, and said she sent Collin to the institution because he had "special needs."
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