Collin Gosselin is telling more of his side of the story.
The Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum leveled additional accusations against his estranged mother Kate Gosselin, alleging she often kept him in a locked room in their basement while growing up.
“My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement,” the 20-year-old Collin Gosselin told The U.S. Sun in an interview published Sept.
10. “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, and it had a mattress on the floor and that’s how I lived.”
And while alleging his mother often became “physically aggressive and verbally very abusive,” Collin Gosselin continued, “When my mother would put me in that room multiple times, she had zip-tied my hands and feet together and bolt locked the door, turned the lights off and had cameras there just watching me.”
The reality TV alum—who currently lives with his father Jon Gosselin and his sibling Hannah Gosselin while he remains estranged from his mother and six other siblings—also shared how he feels this alleged isolation affected his relationship with the rest of his family.
“I didn’t go to school after a certain point,” Collin Gosselin said. “So, most of the day I was in that room and I was away from my siblings and I never really went outside. I never played with them. I was kept there. It was literally containment.”
He added of Kate, “I definitely went through it a lot as a kid from my mother’s end. So it was tough. I just remember being isolated from my siblings and constantly taking the fall for her emotions or the tough things going on in her life.
However, Kate’s lawyer Richard Puleo said in a statement to The U.S. Sun thathe doesn’t believe the 49-year-old has done anything to “intentionally harm” Collin.
“There’s always two sides to every story and when things take place in the past, it’s hard to determine because people have differing recollections and perspectives,” the lawyer said in part. “I think she did whatever she did to protect herself and her family from some of his troubled behavior as a child.”
The attorney added, “However I think if Kate did the things that Collin is accusing Kate of, she would have been investigated by the authorities and prosecuted.”
E! News has reached out to reps for Kate, Collin and Jon for comment but has not yet heard back.
For his part, Jon told The U.S. Sun that the basement room is allegedly still there.
“My friends’ in-laws bought our house,” he revealed, “and one time they asked me ‘Why is there a room in the basement with a bed and a lock on the outside?’”
He added of his son, “It must have been terrifying for him.”
On Mother’s Day 2024, two days after the former couple’s sextuplets turned 20, Kate shared a tribute the four who lived with her: Alexis, Aaden, Joel and Leah.
“No more teenagers in this house! Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies! I love you!” she wrote on Instagram. “Who feels old? I know I do! #20yearsold #ItsaPICKLE.”