Collin Gosselin says his mom Kate Gosselin took her 'anger and frustration' out on him amid divorce

• Collin Gosselin said his mother Kate was "going through a lot of things" and took it out on him amid her divorce. 
• His sister Hannah confirmed that he was often "separated" from them and ate dinner at a different time.
• A representative for Kate Gosselin didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.  

Former TLC star Collin Gosselin said his mother Kate Gosselin took her "anger and her frustration" out on him amid her divorce from his father Jon Gosselin and subsequent fall from reality TV grace. 

"I know my mother was going through a lot of things," he said in a TikTok video recently posted by Vice TV promoting its docuseries "Dark Side of the 2000s."

Gosselin mentioned the 2009 divorce and other life events that "can't be easy to go through." 

"I want to think that she needed someone to take out her anger and her frustration on, and it was just kind of me, you know?" he continued. "I was in the way and I was there. So she chose me." 

In the video, the 19-year-old admitted that he wasn't a "perfect child" but noted that "my misbehaving was no different than my siblings." 

One of Gosselin's sextuplet siblings, Hannah Gosselin, recalled that her brother was often "separated" from her and his other siblings. She said he was sometimes not allowed to play outside with them and had to "eat dinner at different times than us." 

A representative for Kate Gosselin didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

Although it's not directly referenced in the Vice TV video, in November 2022 Collin Gosselin spoke to Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier about being institutionalized twice by his mother Kate when he was a minor. 

In 2016, Kate sent her son away to address his "special needs," she said at the time. But Gosselin denied having any behavioral disorders at the time and said that the facilities put him in a "dark place, mentally."

He recalled reaching out to his father Jon via a note someone outside of the institution helped him deliver. In the note, he begged his dad for a "second chance." 

Jon was given temporary full custody of his son in 2018 when Kate reportedly didn't show up to a hearing, per Fox News. 

Collin Gosselin blamed reality TV for his family's struggles

Gosselin starred on his family's reality TV show "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which followed their lives as a family of ten for 11 seasons from 2007 to 2107. After Kate and Jon's divorce, the show was rebranded as "Kate Plus 8."

It followed Collin, Hannah, and their sextuplet siblings, Joel, Leah, Alexis, and Aaden on family adventures with parents and twin siblings  Mady and Cara, who are now 22 years old. 

But in November 2022, Collin  told Frazier that he thinks the "pressure of being in front of the whole world" on reality TV is the reason his parents split.

"I want to say that in life we all go through hard things. We all get knocked down, we all experience really, really difficult things," he told Entertainment Tonight. "But don't sit around and mourn and cry about it, address the situation you're in and fix it and come out on top of it. Because resilience is a really important thing."

He added that he was doing "great" and planned to go into the Marine Corps, but found it "unfortunate" that he didn't have a relationship with his mother at the time.