The Gosselin family has been under close watch ever since their TLC show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" brought them into the public eye in 2007.
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Kate Gosselin recently got in trouble because her 19-year-old son, Collin
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said she abused him when he was younger and sent him away when he was 12 because she said he had a behavioral problem.
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"I never wanted to have to do this, but I feel trapped and like I have no other choice."
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"I need to speak out now, even though it makes me sad to do so," she told People magazine in a rare public speech last week.
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"Over the years, my son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has been given a number of psychiatric illnesses.
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After years of outpatient care that didn't meet his needs, he was put in a facility for the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters, and himself.
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Doctors in the emergency room made the decision to accept him after one of his many attacks or outbursts, in which he used a weapon, .
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