Kate Gosselin: Dealing with isolation, stressed kids
Photo credit: AP | Kate Gosselin, right, from the reality TV show, 'Jon and Kate Plus 8,' leaves court, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, in Norristown, Pa., after a hearing regarding her split with her husband Jon Gosselin.
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Kate Gosselin feels isolated and alone since the split from her mantrum-throwing ex - and the stress of a pending divorce is starting to affect the kids, too.
"You look around and very close, trusted people who you swear on your life would never ever, ever cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do that," Gosselin told Natalie Morales for a one-hour special, "Kate: Her Story," that aired last night on TLC.
"When people leave your house and tell completely different stories, you tend not to trust [them]."
Asked who she has on her side now, Gosselin, 34, replied: "A very, very small group of people." Describing her current life, she said, "it is very lonely . . . I'm not alone per se but I don't have a person in the same boat. That's the hard part."
In the surprisingly tough interview - Morales challenged her on everything from doing the show in the first place, to her reported affair with her bodyguard, while reminding Gosselin that some people accuse her and husband Jon Gosselin of "the utmost in arrogance and self-absorption" - Gosselin alternately dabbed at her eyes or shot her interviewer a steely glare. (No, she insisted, she did not exploit her children: "There is nothing that would have forced me to put them in harm's way.")
Morales asked if she still "loved Jon." Said Kate, "a part of me always will. . . . I still wake up [and] think the phone will ring and it will be the old Jon."
What of the show's future? ("Kate Plus 8" has been put on indefinite hold). "I don't know. I hope to be able to film in the future with the kids. If not with the kids, I hope to be able to continue with TLC, and that means in a show just with myself. If that can be worked out, I'd love to do it."
Meanwhile, at a West Side synagogue Sunday night, in front of 150 people, Jon Gosselin apologized for the harm he has caused his family, saying "I want to apologize to Kate in private for having public relationships."
"Looking back on it, it seems like a knife in the back," he said.
Jon Gosselin spoke alongside celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the former adviser to Michael Jackson.
"I do apologize to Kate," he told the rabbi. "I am sorry for doing the things that I did, and I do ask for her forgiveness . . . I have to be accountable for my actions."
Jon, 32, also confirmed he is "slowing things down" with girlfriend Hailey Glassman in an effort to improve his character.
