Jon Gosselin alleged that his previous marriage to ex-wife Kate Gosselin took a damaging toll on his relationships along with his circle of relatives.

“I used to be segregated from my household with Kate. It was Kate and the youngsters and that was it,” Jon, 46, instructed The U.S. Solar on Tuesday, August 1. “She doesn’t speak to her circle of relatives so she tried to segregate me from mine till I awakened at some point. Now I name my mother day by day and I name Steph’s mother day by day.”

In that very same interview, Jon and his girlfriend, Stephanie Lebo, went public with their relationship after conserving issues below wraps for 2 years. Jon and Kate, 48, have been beforehand married for twenty years earlier than she filed for divorce in 2009. They share eight children — twins Mady and Cara, each 22, and sextuplets Collin, Hannah, Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel, all 19.

Jon went on to state that Lebo, 35, and his mother are “all the time texting,” including, “It simply makes my household dynamic a lot simpler. I didn’t have that a lot in earlier relationships, particularly with Kate. Hell no.”

Noting that some individuals may assume he’s “the troublesome character” in his and Kate’s previous relationship, Jon instructed the outlet that he’s “truly on good phrases with all of my exes — Kate is the one one I don’t converse to.” A type of pleasant exes consists of Colleen Conrad, whom he dates for seven years earlier than splitting up in August 2021.

Jon’s most up-to-date feedback about Kate come two weeks after Collin accused his mom of being “abusive” on an episode of Vice’s Darkish Aspect of the 2000s sequence. Collin claimed that Kate’s alleged abuse was the rationale she had him institutionalized in 2016 for “particular wants.” It wasn’t till he was moved to a different facility that he wrote a letter to Jon asking for assist.

“I used to go to my children’ college and have lunch with all of them, and that’s after I would see them — I might see all of them collectively,” Jon defined throughout the episode. “At some point, I go searching and say, ‘The place’s Collin?’ And [the other kids] don’t say something, which actually scared me. I’m like, ‘The place’s your brother?’”

Jon later had Collin faraway from the power and has been residing along with his son and Hannah since 2018. Hannah, for her half, claimed throughout the episode that none of their different siblings converse to Collin.

Kate responded to the sequence by calling Collin a “very troubled younger man who continues to wish a variety of assist.” She instructed Individuals on July 21 that Collin “acquired a number of psychiatric diagnoses” through the years and his “many assaults/outbursts” influenced her resolution to enroll him in a therapy facility. Regardless of Collin’s accusations, Kate famous that she nonetheless loves her son with “all [her] coronary heart.”

Jon, nevertheless, slammed his ex’s feedback. “Kate posting merciless false accusations concerning Collin appears to be simply one other manner for her to justify her inexcusable horrific previous habits towards him,” a rep for the previous TLC character instructed The U.S. Solar on Friday, July 21. “Real love for a kid wouldn’t embody a mom attacking their son to the general public. … Don’t forget {that a} decide awarded sole authorized and bodily custody of Collin to his father.”

Following the Darkish Aspect of the 2000s episode, a supply solely instructed Us Weekly that “the youngsters who reside with Kate haven’t had a lot contact with Collin and his sister Hannah since they went to reside with Jon,” including, “It’s secure to say they received’t now after this doc.”