Jon Gosselin Reveals Son Collin’s Efforts to Reconnect with Siblings

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Jon Gosselin still has hope that the relationship between his children can be fixed.

In a recent interview with Us Weeklywhich was published on Wednesday, October 16, Jon, 47, said his son Collin, 20, has been actively working to patch things up with his siblings, saying: “He has offered the branch of ‘olive, so we hope that the olive branch will be returned’, adding: ‘It’s a two-way street’.

The former TV personality admitted that she hopes her own relationship with her children will improve, telling the network: “Every time I’m in New York or whatever, I get used to it and try to get a little of stimulation of my twins or whatever. Maybe one day. It’ll just happen, but we’ll see we talk about it a lot, and maybe it will happen.

The family update comes after Collin confirmed he hadn’t spoken to his siblings in over a decade. He revealed this in an episode of The dark side of the 2000s in 2023, “I think my mother created a social barrier between us.” Later in the episode, the young adult accuses his mother of abuse for sending him to a mental institution at age 12.

Collin wrote to his father while he was institutionalized in 2018 asking for his help to get out, prompting Jon to seek full custody, which ultimately caused a rift in the family.

“They don’t talk to Collin,” his sister Hannah Gosselin said in the episode. “They decided not to have any relationship with him.

Of their eight children, only Collin and Hannah, 24, chose to live with Jon after his very public divorce from ex-wife Kate in 2009. Four of the sextuplets, Aaden, Leah, Joel, Alexis, 20, along with the Mady twins. and Cara, 24, chose to live with their mother.