Perhaps one of the most unsettling things in Kate Gosselin's post-fame life is her , who hasn't held back on . In addition to putting him in an institution, Collin revealed that Kate went to disturbing lengths to isolate him from the rest of the family. "My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement," he explained to . "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." He also claimed she zip-tied him and regularly lashed out at him. "My mother at many, many times, and most of the time became physically aggressive, verbally, very abusive with the things she would say," he said., Kate Gosselin Katie Irene Gosselin[4] (née Kreider; born March 28, 1975) is a former television personality. She appeared on the U.S. reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Gosselin were profiled as they raised their atypical family of sextuplets and twins. [5], Kate and Jon Gosselin had their 15 minutes of fame with their oversized brood, but these days, Kate’s life is a far cry from the spotlight she once basked in..