'Jon & Kate Plus 8' Dad Reveals Heartbreaking Details About His Twins

Carly Ledbetter Fri, November 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM UTC

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Jon Gosselin is opening up about his estrangement from six of his eight children.

The “Jon & Kate Plus 8” dad appeared on the “Legally Goff” podcast earlier this week and spoke about his relationship ― or lack thereof ― with some of his kids.

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Gosselin, who split with his wife Kate in 2009, shares eight children with his ex: 26-year-old twins Mady and Cara, and the 22-year-old sextuplets: Collin, Hanna, Aaden, Alexis, Joel and Leah.

“I haven’t seen Mady and Cara in like forever,” the former reality star said of his twins. “I have pictures of them, but I still wouldn’t be able to pick them out on the street. That’s how much I haven’t seen them.”

Gosselin said he missed graduations and proms because he was “alienated from all that stuff,” and last saw the twins when they were around 13.

“I don’t know anything about my twins, if they have boyfriends or girlfriends, or what favorite color they have now ― if they drive a car. I know nothing,” he added.

Television personalities Kate Gosselin (L) and Jon Gosselin of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" attend Discovery Upfronts on April 2, 2009 in New York City.Amy Sussman via Getty Images

“Alienation is like silence, like I’ve never heard their voice. One day I was an all-active everyday parent and it’s upsetting I know and people are going to hate hearing this, but I was just cut out of their lives,” Gosselin added, laying some of the blame on the network that aired his family’s infamous TV show.

“They, I guess, believe the narrative of TLC that I’m a shitbag and that I don’t want to see them,” he said, alleging that that’s what his ex-wife told one of their sons, Collin. “I believe that’s exactly what she said to Mady and Cara and that’s their mother and they believed her and that was it.”

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Jon, who does have a relationship with his kids Collin and Hannah, said that he last saw four of the sextuplets ― Joel, Aaden, Alexis and Leah ― in 2018.

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Kate Gosselin and John Gosselin talk about their twin daughters and sextuplets on NBC News' "Today" on Oct. 2, 2007.NBC NewsWire via Getty Images

Collin Gosselin has no relationship with Kate, and has alleged that he experienced physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.

“My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement,” Collin Gosselin told The Sun back in 2024. “She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and it was bolt-locked from the outside.”

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“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,” he said.

HuffPost reached out to Kate Gosselin’s representatives for comment.

She addressed Collin’s abuse allegations while responding to commenters on a TikTok video she posted in October.

“I know who I am and my kids know who I truly am and to me, that’s all that matters,” she wrote.

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