Claims extracted
24
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
17%
4 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
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Collin Gosselin alleges his mom, Kate Gosselin, brutally locked him in a “small holding cell” for two years, where he was completely isolated from his siblings.
asserted
he → allege → siblings
He alleges that Kate one day informed him he was “moving out” and had a contractor build a wall in the corner of their unfinished basement to create “a small holding cell.”
asserted
contractor → allege → cell
He claims he was only given an air mattress and a pillow, and that the room was off-limits to everyone, including the camera crew filming “Kate Plus Eight” at the time.
uncertain
room → claim → time
Collin says he felt “trapped” in the room, which contained only books and that surveillance cameras monitored his every move.
asserted
cameras → say → move
“The cameras were connected to a device about the size of a baby monitor, it hung from a lanyard so it could be worn around someone’s wrist,” he writes.
uncertain
he → connect → wrist
“My mom carried it, then passed it off to a nanny or assistant when she left the house.
asserted
she → carry → house
It moved from person to person, a small screen that meant eyes were always on me.”
asserted
eyes → move → me
He describes the room as only having a tiny window near the ceiling and always being cold, with dusty, stale air.
asserted
He → describe → air
He alleges he was only brought up to eat after all his siblings had finished, though he could smell their food through the basement vents.
uncertain
he → allege → vents
“After the table was cleared and dishes stacked, eating alone at the long table, I felt like a ghost who had missed his own life,” he writes.
asserted
he → clear → life
“After I’d eaten and done chores I would be locked back into the room downstairs.”
asserted
I → eat → room
He adds, “The bolts on the door always sounded louder than anything else.”
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bolts → add → anything
Collin describes hearing his seven siblings — fellow sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Leah and Joel, as well as older twins Madelyn and Cara — having fun on weekends, while he cruelly had to wait for Kate to wake up and come get him.
asserted
Kate → describe → him
One morning he recalls that he could no longer wait and wet himself, since he couldn’t go to the bathroom because he was locked in the room.
uncertain
he → recall → room
“I stood in front of the cameras she had set up, calling her, then looking straight into them, begging,” he writes.
asserted
he → stand → them
“I started crying, quietly at first.
asserted
I → start → ?
“[He] has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years. …
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He → receive → years
Collin’s distorted perception of reality is one of the many issues that he has always struggled with,” she told People in a statement in 2023.
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she → struggle → 2023
Her statement continued, “His brothers and sisters and I have not been directly involved in his life due to his history of unpredictable behavior and violent tendencies towards us.”
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brothers → continue → us
More recently, Kate claimed in June via TikTok that she isn’t suing Collin for defamation because she’s a “public figure” and the “rules are different unfortunately.”
asserted
rules → claim → defamation
Kate and her ex-husband, Jon Gosselin, rose to fame on the TLC show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” which ran from 2007 to 2017.
asserted
which → rise → 2017
A source told Page Six last month that Kate was “nervous” about Collin’s memoir coming out.
asserted
memoir → tell → ?
“Kate doesn’t want anyone in the family to talk about their past,” the source said.
asserted
source → want → past
“She considers any of the children who talk in the family as traitors.”
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who → consider → traitors
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