KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (115 page)

oh sure but over the top drama wasn’t me.

Finally, a particularly vocal tweeter really got under Kate’s skin with several critical tweets. The tweetie told Kate that it made her sick to her stomach to hear Kate talk about not having help, and that she was “appalled” at what she saw. Kate jumped in to set the record straight:

nope. Ur only seeing edited footage.

And she tweeted this to another fan:

Hard to watch and see that ppl don’t understand due to editing etc.

And here again on March 12, 2012, Kate tweeted with the viewers in the United Kingdom, who were just getting to see the final episodes of
Kate Plus Ei8ht
. A tweeter told her they were just seeing the RV episode; another tweeted that Kate “seemed very hard to please.” This is how Kate responded:

oh, my, remember: drama and editing work magic :) we are all still friends lol

lol. Remember editing &drama gets ratings.Sad u didn’t c the many good Xs we had :( I’m not hard2pls,lots of planning on my mind

Either Kate does not understand the concept of editing, she is stupid, or she is simply delusional. Or, she is all of the above. Anything captured on film can definitely be changed through omission or rearrangement. But the funny thing about film is that you can’t edit IN behavior that did not occur. Viewers saw Kate saying and doing all kinds of horrible, nasty, mean-spirited, narcissistic things to her family, friends and paid workers. This wasn’t some CGI-generated or special-effects-laden movie. This was the real Kate Gosselin exposed for all the world to see. She can’t deny that she said and did ALL of those terrible things, yet she still blames “bad editing.” If TLC did edit OUT Kate’s good behavior, any reasonable person would have to ask themselves “why?”

Kate continued to tell everyone over and over again on Twitter that TLC’s editing showed only the bad moments, and focused only on the times when Kate was complaining and miserable. Even if that were true, Kate Gosselin still showed more ugly, mean moments on that family trip than any normal person would display in a lifetime. It was horrible and embarrassing. Words cannot do it justice. This was Kate unplugged and unhinged. TLC finally showed the world the real Kate Gosselin.

As stated previously, Kate had final say in the editing of her show. She got a preview copy sent to her a week or more in advance to make final edits, then she spent a week hyping the episodes on her Twitter page. She gave final approval to everything the viewers saw, good and bad, because she had absolutely no idea that anything was abnormal about her behavior. This was very much like her keeping a daily journal documenting her abuse of her children to be included in her book about letters of love to her children.

Over the years, Kate has told us, ad nauseam, that her “…
Kate Plus
…” shows are the realist reality we will ever see. She assured us that they were just a family living their lives and being filmed. If that was true, then who was to blame for the disastrous RV trip? Whose idea was it? Did TLC force her to go on this trip? Was it a coincidence that Kate suddenly blamed all her outrageous behavior on bad editing at the same time that TLC decided to ditch her and stop protecting her?

Even while watching the RV episodes and seeing how horrible Kate Gosselin is as a person, a mother, and a human being, some people continued to give her a pass, buying into her mantra that the editing was at fault. During her Twitter party, Kate played the victim, as always. Someone tweeted that they felt sad for Kate because “She’s accustomed to people leaving, but doesn’t connect it to her actions.” Kate responded with this tweet:

I sure do but they don’t connect my actions to my unusually stressful life either..Not justifying but St goes both ways! Gnight!:)

Gnight, Kate. Everyone knows nothing is ever your fault.

Doron Ofir, who’s cast several reality shows, including Jersey Shore and RuPaul’s Drag Race, also insists that however contrived the situations are, people are behaving in an authentic way.

“Something that makes me crazy is when cast members say, ‘The edited me to be this character,’ like Omarosa’s famous line,” he says. “Ten years later, you know Omarosa is what she is.”

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IT MIGHT BE A CRAZY LIFE …

BUT IT’S THEIR LIFE.

Some of the following information was known by me at the time of the original book being released but withheld to protect the source(s), and some information came to light more recently.

Kate Gosselin is completely obsessed with getting back on television because of the high salaries that she sees other reality ‘stars’ being paid. She wants desperately to get a new show on a different network so that she can rub it in TLCs face that they made a terrible mistake when they canceled her and ‘abandoned’ her. She refuses to accept the fact that she was a novelty act and the television-viewing audience has lost interest in her antics and has moved on. She believes in her heart that she is more talented than anyone else on television and she becomes enraged just talking about it. She believes that she would be the best host The View has ever had and having her as a permanent member of the panel would garner the highest ratings ever for the show. In Kate’s mind, people are just too blind or too stupid to give her a chance. When Jenny McCarthy was recently given the permanent slot, Kate went into a weeks-long depression filled with binge drinking and violent outbursts toward her children. The children were very quiet and careful in that house during that time, in an attempt to protect themselves from Kate’s wrath.

Kate’s drinking though is something that the children are accustomed to. They’ve been dodging her and quietly cleaning up after her for several years. Kate once fell down several stairs while drunk in front of the children and the oldest girls helped her up and cleaned up the broken glass from her drink.

A college-age babysitter once tried to stop Kate from going out to run errands in the afternoon after seeing Kate finishing a drink and witnessing her slurred speech. The sitter confronted Kate politely at the front door and told her that she didn’t think it would be a good idea for her to drive in her condition and offered to run Kate’s errands for her. Kate snapped at her and told her not to ever question her again and to worry about watching children and doing her job and left. The sitter was fired when Kate returned later the same day.

Kate no longer identifies with Katie Kreider. She doesn’t know who she is or who she was. In Kate’s mind, there is only Kate Gosselin, television star. She can’t enjoy her children because she is so focused and consumed with trying to get another show so she can go back to the pampered lifestyle that she’s become accustomed to. She has completely lost touch with reality.

The emotional abuse and physical beatings of the Gosselin children continue to this day. Many of Kate Gosselin’s supporters refused to believe that she would ever lay hands on her children, especially babies in diapers, but the fact remains that it wasn’t an isolated period of time documented in her private journal. That journal was merely a snapshot of the Gosselin children’s permanent reality. That journal was filled with Kate’s stories of ‘loving’ her children, not the reality of their situation. The world won’t hear the true story of the children’s horror until they’re old enough to tell it for themselves.

After her divorce from Jon, Kate was caught on video violently spanking two of the boys in the driveway of their home, the moment they got out of the van from returning from an overnight with Jon. The other children just watched in fear as the spanking took place, perhaps not knowing if they were next. I later found out the reason for the beating was because the boys told Kate they wanted to stay longer at Jon’s house because they were having too much fun. Kate now promises the children presents and trips to Toys R Us for toys if they tell Jon that they don’t want to go to his house.

The paparazzo who shot the video didn’t release it because he shot it from private property. He was there at the time hoping to snap what would have been a very valuable photo of Kate with her bodyguard Steve Neild in a romantic moment, but that didn’t materialize.

Kate Gosselin had one babysitter who would actually administer her own beatings to the Gosselin children at Kate’s direction when she was away. The sitter was given the authority by Kate to carry out Kate’s way of ‘teaching’ the children for even the smallest of infractions. This included spanking the children, withholding meals from the children and locking the children in a room for hours at a time. This same sitter was told by Kate to lock one of the boys in the bathroom for her entire shift because he left splashes of water on the sink and floor without toweling it off.

Beating or spanking her children isn’t the only way Kate gets her message across to them. Kate recently pushed one of the boys outside in below-freezing temperatures without his coat, gloves or hat for fifteen minutes because the boy didn’t close the door all the way when he came inside from playing in the snow. The child was screaming and crying and banging on the doors all around the house. His face was bright red from being so cold when Kate finally allowed him to come back into the house.

On one occasion, one of the boys was punished for having Shoka in the basement when he was supposed to be outside. Shoka had an accident by the door and Kate was so enraged that she brought the boy down to the basement and screamed at him while showing him the mess. To show her complete domination of the child, she grabbed him by the back of his neck and forced his face down to within inches of the mess, trying to rub his face in it. He struggled and resisted and ended up with only a spanking instead of a face-full of dog feces.

This is the Gosselin children’s normal.

The Gosselin dog’s normal wasn’t much better. In fact, it was very similar to the children’s normal. That’s why they were sent away after only a short time as being ‘part of the family.’

Both Gosselin dogs, Shoka and Nala, were abused by Kate during the separation and divorce when Jon was away from the house. Kate treated the dogs and the kids in the same manner but the dogs resisted and ‘fought back.’ Kate would use a stick, a spoon, a tube or whatever else she had handy to discipline the dogs for minor infractions that dogs commit, like tracking mud into the basement after being brought in from being outside in the pouring rain and…mud. If Kate got growled at by one of the dogs for hitting them for minor animal infractions, she would banish them to the outdoors overnight. She talked to them like people and thought she could reason with them. She locked them outside in the freezing rain and snow and left them to watch the family through the basement windows. One freezing cold night, she sadistically went to the glass door where the female dog Nala was howling to come inside and she smiled and waved to her and told her how warm it was inside and that maybe she’ll think about her actions so she could come back in the following morning. She got down on the floor to pet Shoka who was laying by the door looking out at poor Nala. Kate Gosselin is cruel and she seems to enjoy the power that she has over children, animals and adults.

This is Kate Gosselin’s normal.

As strange as this may sound, Kate Gosselin possesses some qualities of character that could have been extremely useful in putting her on a path to becoming a very successful businesswoman. She is tenacious and determined and goal-oriented. As distasteful as it is, it took a great deal of planning and single-minded focus for her to achieve her goal of having and exploiting a gaggle of children to gain wealth and fame.

Unfortunately,
Kate Gosselin also possesses qualities of character (more accurately, character flaws) that have prevented her, and will always prevent her, from being successful on her own without her children. She has shown herself to be incredibly lazy, intellectually challenged, developmentally stunted, completely lacking in self-awareness, ignorant of the world around her, conceited, selfish, hypocritical, ungrateful, socially awkward and abusive. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

When
Kate had the backing of Discovery/TLC, she was presented with more opportunities than the vast majority of the mediocre masses will ever see in a lifetime, and she squandered each and every one. She can try to blame every person under the sun for her failures, and eliminate every person who has not agreed with her from her life, but in the end she only has to look at the image staring back at her from a mirror to know where the fault lies.

In reviewing the events that created
and fueled the Gosselin Family phenomenon, and ultimately turned it into a tragedy of epic proportions, one thing is very clear. The desire for money and power, on the part of Discovery/TLC/Figure 8 Films and their associates, and on the part of the Gosselin parents, caused eight innocent children to be exploited and, yes, abused, in the most despicable ways. We will never know how great a part the pressure of filming the TV show played and contributed to Kate Gosselin’s admitted anger and violent outbursts towards her children. It is inconceivable to think it was not a major factor, and the network and producers should be held accountable for their role in allowing it to happen.