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\nCollin Gosselin penned a message to his siblings, opening up about how growing up in the spotlight impacted them all\u201cI will always love them more than anything. The tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could\u2019ve shared,\u201d Collin wrote of his siblings, who appeared alongside him and parents on the series Jon & Kate Plus 8Jon and Kate Gosselin, who divorced in 2009, are parents to twins Mady and Cara, 24, plus 21-year-old sextuplets Collin, Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Leah and Joel<\/p>\n
Kate<\/a> and Jon Gosselin<\/a>‘s son Collin<\/a> penned a message to his seven siblings, getting candid about how growing up in the spotlight impacted their relationship.\n<\/p>\n In a post shared on TikTok<\/a> on Aug. 7, the 21-year-old Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum shared a throwback photo of himself and his siblings as young children. The photo featured twins Mady and Cara, now 24, and the rest of his sextuplets: Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Leah and Joel.\n<\/p>\n “Born to be a team, us against the world,” he wrote in the post, which was set to Adele<\/a>‘s 2007 song \u201cHometown Glory.\u201d\n<\/p>\n A throwback photo of the eight Gosselin children.<\/p>\n Collin Gosselin\/TikTok<\/p>\n In another photo, a still of Collin in sunglasses inside a car, the sextuplet wrote: \u201cForced to do it alone, and wonder every day what our lives could’ve looked like.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cForced apart, pitted against each other,\u201d he added in the caption. \u201cAll the fame and money in the world, but what about kids being kids?\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cI will always love them more than anything,\u201d Collin continued. \u201cThe tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could\u2019ve shared. I love you guys.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Collin Gosselin.<\/p>\n Collin Gosselin\/TikTok<\/p>\n In the comments section, the former reality TV star also answered questions about what his relationship looks like with some of his siblings now, including sister Hannah.\n<\/p>\n “I just saw [Hannah] today!” he said. “She was worried her car wouldn’t pass inspection so I was looking at it for her. She’s so funny and I love her [so much]. It makes my day whenever I see her, but we’re both so busy with work, school etc.”\n<\/p>\n Collin, who is estranged from his mother<\/a>, also followed up on the previous abuse allegations<\/a> he made against his mom in September, claiming in a comment that he faced “physical and emotional abuse…while having to be an animal in her circus on TV.”\n<\/p>\n “Being locked up, isolated, zip tied. Being sent away because I didn’t fit into an equation,” he wrote. “Having one visit from her after being completely cut off with no contact at 12 years old, in which the whole visit was her telling me how I deserved the situation I was in because I ‘destroyed our family.’ Yeah I’m sorry, but I will never ‘understand’ that. I will break the cycle that she couldn’t.”\n<\/p>\n The former U.S. Marine also wrote about wanting to have children of his own someday, and raising them differently from the way he was brought up.\n<\/p>\n “I can’t wait to have kids and teach them the importance of siblings,” he said. “I tell all my friends who have siblings to always value their siblings and hold each other close.”\n<\/p>\n Hannah and Collin Gosselin. In September, Collin brought new allegations against his mother in an interview with\u00a0The Sun<\/a>, claiming he was abused by\u00a0Kate starting when he was 8 or 9 years old. He alleged that he was confined and “isolated” from his other seven siblings by Kate and that he was “a scapegoat” for his mother’s problems and often took “the brute end of things.”\n<\/p>\n “My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement,” he alleged to the outlet. “She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and it was bolt-locked from the outside. It was like a containment room, literally, and it had a mattress on the floor and that’s how I lived.”\n<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n In an interview with\u00a0Fox News<\/a> soon after,\u00a0Kate’s attorney Richard Puleo defended his client<\/a> amid the accusations by Collin that he was mistreated by Kate. Puleo declined to comment on the newest claims that Kate physically \u201cisolated\u201d him from his other siblings in a locked room.\n<\/p>\n “She never wants to comment because she always knows that this gets taken out of context,” Puleo told the outlet. “She doesn’t want to comment. Doesn\u2019t need to. The record speaks for itself.”\n<\/p>\n One of Collin’s sisters Mady<\/a> also previously made her own allegations against her younger brother<\/a>, claiming in an Instagram post in July 2023 that she no longer speaks to Collin because of his past alleged physical threats toward her.\n<\/p>\n “I do not owe my allegiance to any person(s) who has physically threatened me and every member of my immediate family (some incidents as recent as last year),” she wrote, in part. “Further, I will never allow someone who has exhibited hateful and even violent behavior toward others based on their racial identity, gender identity, or religious beliefs to be in my life.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n When Jon and Kate finalized their divorce in 2009, Kate was awarded custody of their children. In 2016, she sent Collin to a behavioral health institution in Philadelphia for what she\u00a0previously claimed<\/a>\u00a0to be “unpredictable and violent behavior” when he was 12 years old.\n<\/p>\n In 2018, Collin left the behavioral program at age 14, and his father Jon was awarded custody of both him and his sister Hannah. Both went on to\u00a0graduate from high school<\/a>\u00a0in June 2023, and Collin opened up about his dreams of becoming a U.S. Marine. He eventually went on to enlist and began training camp before\u00a0being discharged<\/a>\u00a0in August 2023.<\/p>\n
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