Collin Gosselin — along with the rest of the sextuplets who became famous after they were featured on Jon & Kate Plus 8 — is all grown up, but things that happened in his childhood are having a very real impact on his adult life. In a new interview, Collin revealed that he was discharged from the Marines Corps because the military found out that mom Kate Gosselin had forced him to enter an "institution" as a child, and now, he's fighting to make his dream become a reality.
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Collin said he was discharged right before graduating from boot camp.
Collin, who graduated high school in 2023, told Entertainment Tonight that his military dreams are now out of his reach.
"I was towards the end of training, very close to graduating. The paperwork was looked into, and they found out that I was, in fact, in an institution at one point in my life," he said.
He said the military didn't need a 'deeper reason' to make the decision.
He went on to say that being institutionalized was a "good enough" reason for the military to let him go, regardless of how close he'd come to actually serving.
"It was the fact that I was in an institution and that’s it," he said.
Collin was sent to live in a treatment facility as a minor, while he was still under Kate's care.
Last year, Kate released a statement to People to explain the decision she'd made to hospitalize her son at the age of 12.
"My son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years. For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs," she said at the time.
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Jon won sole custody of Collin in 2018.
At that point, Collin went to live with his dad and his sister Hannah (who Jon also had sole custody of). But as he told Entertainment Tonight, before he left the facility, Kate only visited him once.
"It was about for thirty minutes, and the entire time all she did was lecture me and told me that I destroyed our family," he said.
Collin said he is trying to get the military to change its decision.
He told ET that he is now trying to appeal the decision.
"I have very few wishes in life that would top being a United States Marine," he said.
For now, Collin is living with his dad and planning to study finance at Penn State University.
