Collin Gosselin offered an ‘olive branch’ to estranged siblings but is waiting for it to be ‘returned,’ says father Jon

Jon Gosselin hopes his son Collin Gosselin can make peace with his estranged brothers.

“We hope Collin fixes this,” Jon said of his son, who hasn’t spoken to his brothers and sisters since 2016, in an interview with Us Weekly published Wednesday.

“It’s a two-way street. Do you know what I mean? He offered the olive branch, so I hope the olive branch is returned.”

Of the eight children Jon shares with ex-wife Kate, only Colin and daughter Hannah have chosen to live with him. Aaden, Leah, Joel, Alexis and twins Mady and Cara have decided to live with their mother, following the reality TV couple’s highly publicized split.

During his interview, Jon further admitted that Hannah still talks to all of her siblings and he hopes the same thing happens to him one day.

“Every time I’m in New York or something, I reach out and try to get some stimulation from my twins or something,” he told us. “Maybe one day it will just happen, but we’ll see. We talk about this a lot. The holidays are coming and maybe that will happen.”

Collin first revealed that he hasn’t spoken to his siblings in several years in 2023 during an appearance on Vice TV’s “Dark Side of the 2000s” episode titled “Jon & Kate: Family Circus.”

The former Marine midshipman blamed his mother for the estrangement, claiming Kate “kind of drove a social wedge between us” after Collin accused her of abuse by sending him to a mental institution in 2016. He was 12 at the time of the treatment. .

“She told them the story one way, and obviously I see the story a different way.”

In 2018, Collin, while institutionalized, contacted his father via letter, begging him to release him from the Fairmount Behavioral Health Institute in Philadelphia, where he was staying.

Jon then sought full custody of his son, which created a rift in the family. As a result, the rest of Hannah and Collin’s siblings chose to sever ties with their brother.

“They don’t talk to Collin,” Hannah confirmed in the Vice document. “They decided not to have a relationship with him.”

At the time of Collin’s admission, Kate told the media that she sent Collin to an institution because he was prone to “unpredictable and violent behavior.”

The mother alleged that Collin regularly attacked her ex-husband Jon, their daughter Hannah, as well as “other people around him.”

“All measures that were taken in our home were on the explicit recommendation of their pediatric psychiatrist and/or their team of specialists and were put in place to protect every member of our family, our friends, as well as our pets,” she stated. .