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Hannah Gosselin Posts Instagram Photos Following Collin’s Abuse Accusations About Kate



Hannah Gosselin posted to social media amid her brother Collin’s abuse allegations against their mother.

Hannah, 20, shared an Instagram carousel on Thursday, Sept. 12. In her post, she posed for the camera in a grassy field while holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a white mini dress.

“🌷🌷🌷,” she simply captioned the post.

Hannah’s post follows her brother Collin Gosselin’s Sept. 10 interview with The Sun, in which he claimed he had a “rough” childhood.

The Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum, 20, previously alleged that his mother, Kate Gosselin, abused him, beginning around 8 or 9 years old. He alleged that Kate confined and “isolated” from his other seven siblings and that he was “a scapegoat” for his mother’s problems and often took “the brute end of things.”

Collin and Hannah are two of Kate, 49, and ex-husband Jon Gosselin’s sextuplets, alongside Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel. The two also share twin girls, Mady and Cara, 23. 

After Jon and Kate divorced in 2009, Kate received full custody of all eight children. At the time, due to what Kate described as “unpredictable and violent behavior,” a 12-year-old Collin was placed in a program for children with special needs. He lived there for two years before moving in with Jon, now 47, in 2018. That year, Hannah also chose to live with their father. 

(left to right) Kate Gosselin and Collin Gosselin.

Getty; Collin Gosselin/Instagram


Years later, Collin, Hannah and Jon appeared in a July 2023 episode of Vice TV’s Dark Side of the 2000s, where Collin alleged Kate “drove a barrier” between him and his siblings. He also accused Kate of being “abusive” toward him.

After the Vice TV episode aired, Kate shared her response with PEOPLE in July 2023.

“My son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years. For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs,” she wrote at the time, adding, “Collin’s distorted perception of reality is one of the many issues that he has always struggled with.”

Jon later responded to her statement, telling PEOPLE: “Regarding these brand new false accusations, it seems clear that even today after not seeing her son since the 6th grade, Kate is unable to control her abusive words towards him.” Noting, “Collin is training to be a Marine in order to serve his country and is unable to respond to his mother’s callous lies.”

Jon Gosselin and daughter Hannah Gosselin.

Jon Gosselin/instagram


In mid-August 2024, Collin told Entertainment Tonight that he was no longer training to join the U.S. military because he was “discharged.”

“I was towards the end of training, very close to graduating. The paperwork was looked into, and they found out that I was, in fact, in an institution at one point in my life,” he said. “And see, they don’t need any deeper reason. Being in an institution, that’s good enough for [them] to discharge [you].”

On Sept. 10, he told The Sun Kate was also “physically aggressive, verbally, very abusive with the things she would say.”

“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.”

“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 claimed.

PEOPLE previously reached out to Kate and her attorney, Richard Puleo, for comment but has not received a response. However, Puleo told Fox News that Kate would not be responding to these latest allegations.

“She never wants to comment because she always knows that this gets taken out of context,” Puleo told Fox News. “She doesn’t want to comment. Doesn’t need to. The record speaks for itself.”

Kate Gosselin.

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“The facts belie the truth,” added Puleo. “Whatever took place, the ones that are truthful are the ones that took place… She has no comment because it’s not going to change the past. And I don’t believe she intentionally harmed any of her children in any way, shape or form.”

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