Jon Gosselin Says Kate Only Had 1.5 Hours Of Contact With Son In 5 Yrs – Hollywood Life
Daniel Rodriguez
Updated on January 28, 2026
Jon Gosselin with his kids Hannah and Collin, whom he has full custody of. (Photo Courtesy of Instagram)
Jon didn’t win full custody of Collin until 2018, but before that, the teen had been staying at a treatment center that Kate sent him to in 2016 — a move that horrified Collin’s dad. “I’m trying to play catch up. [Collin] lost three years of his life because he was institutionalized wrongly by his mother,” Jon insisted during his interview with Dr. Oz. He continued, “[Collin] was not educated during that time, which is against the law. His mother could be in trouble for that.”
Although Jon has previously been critical of Kate for sending their son to a program for children with special needs “without a diagnosis,” he reported that Collin now has a “couple” diagnoses that the father didn’t wish to disclose. However, Jon did say this: “We have a team of people – two therapists, in-home therapy, family therapy. Plus he has a psychiatrist, a nurse practitioner. It’s a whole team and organizations working towards it. He’s starting to realize people are behind him, but he has to realize and accept what God has given him. And the environment which he came out of.”