KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (62 page)

Kate: “Um, every child who’s parents um, are you know divorced will go through some negative behaviors, I mean, um, Collin and Alexis’s therapist said, you know, a third of the kids will sail through perfectly, a third of the kids will do horribly and a third of the kids will, um, get through it with counseling, so she said you don’t ever know which kids will do what but um, the most important thing is for me to have a positive attitude, um, to pick up you know, where our family left off and to continue on with those traditions which is what I’m doing, and, um, we’re actually, we’re really, we’re good now.”

Through Kate’s TV interviews, it is easy to identify the four stages of Kate’s and Discovery’s “The Kids Were Not Expelled” lie:

One: No comment. It’s a private matter.

Two: The kids are being tutored at home.

Three: The school and Kate mutually agreed and Kate brought them home.

Four: There were some medical issues we were dealing with so I pulled them out.

Now let’s examine the truth.
In a letter from October 2010, Junior Thiry, business manager for the kids’ school, informed Kate that she would be receiving a tuition refund “As a result of the
separation from school
for Alexis & Collin,
at the request of the school
.” Thiry explained that, effective October 22, 2010, a prorated tuition refund in the amount of $3,856.27 for each child was going to be processed the next week. He also enclosed a statement for one-on-one support through October 8, 2010, and said that a final invoice for support would be forthcoming soon.

That
one-on-one support obviously didn’t help the situation, so the school was left with no other choice but to “separate” the children from the school. No matter how Kate/TLC/Discovery tried to spin it, and what words they chose to use, the fact is the children were made to leave the school.

The National Enquirer had it right when they posted the following on their sister website,
radaronline.com
:

One of the expelled Gosselin kids physically harmed an adult at the school TWO TIMES, creating a situation that caused school administrators to believe they had no choice but to remove that child from school.

The nature and extent of the adult's injuries are not known, but the situation was severe enough that it contributed heavily to the school's decision to expel the children.

Both of the Gosselin children were abusive to other children in the school, creating an untenable situation.

Both Jon and Kate were sent a letter from the head of school explaining that despite their best efforts, staff had reached a point at which they had to request the children enroll in another program.

While the
teacher
was able to achieve some success, it became apparent to the school that the pair needed intensive assistance to help them with their social, emotional and academic needs.

“
The demand on the children's
classroom teachers
-- and the impact on other kids -- was just too great.”

When Kate’s fans hounded her for more information, Kate did what she does best –
she first pleaded ignorance and then she lied:

xxxx
x @
Kateplusmy8
How r u handling the problem with the kids getting expelled from school? I cant believe a school would to that to 8 ur. Olds

not sure what ur talking about. I have no kids who have been expelled& no 8 ur olds at all. Sure this was for me? :)

2011

xxxx
x hey @
kateplusmy8
, weren't two of your kids expelled from school for bullying?
#appledoesntfalltoofarfromthetree
#plasticsurgeryhypocrite

nope. Don't believe rumors! Thanks for asking so I could clear it up! Xo

I later found out that the situation was even worse than I originally knew. In 2012, I learned some new details about the expulsion of the Gosselin children and their interactions, or lack of interactions, with certain school employees, as well as Kate’s treatment of them at home over the summer. I believe this information will come out soon after this book is published from the people who should be dealing with the situation. This is one part of the story that I can’t divulge, because I gave my word that I wouldn’t.

“
When I speak, um, my yardstick is my kids.

They can pull this up forever. I don’t want them to see

anything that’s negative that came out of my mouth.”

– Kate Gosselin

Kate on the Ellen DeGeneres show, 2009

YOU’LL NEVER HEAR ME BASHING JON ON TV

On February 15, 2011, Kate told the ladies from
The Talk
, “I didn’t want my kids to see me on the
Today
show bashing their father. I won’t do it. You will never hear me do it. He will always be their father.”

It must have slipped Kate’s mind that, while on the
Today
show on December 1, 2010, discussing very private family issues such as two of her 6-year-old children being expelled from kindergarten, she complained to Meredith Vieira about Jon. Showing frustration and anger, Kate said, “I have never personally been apologized to,” and added that she doesn’t consider “an interview on TV or a tabloid” the appropriate venue to discuss deep-seated family issues.

Kate must have also forgotten what she said on the
Regis & Kelly
show on September 10, 2010, when she told the world that the kids don’t like spending time with Jon. Despite starting off the interview by saying “I do try to keep things as peaceful as possible with Jon,” Kate immediately commented on how much the kids don’t like spending time with him.

Anderson Cooper, filling in for Regis Philbin, asked Kate what she does with her time while the kids are with Jon. Kate responded, “I basically wait for the phone call for how many of them want to come home.” She continued by saying, “It’s hard to explain to your kids who want to be at home playing with their toys and sleeping in their bed and
spending time with me
.” Then she said that when she’s able, she brings them home.

This is an excerpt about the situation from my
U
S
Weekly
reporting that week:

Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

Monday, September 13, 2010

Jon thinks it’s strange that the day Kate announces to the world that the kids would rather be at home with her, the first thing she does is leave them to go to Mexico with her bodyguard/boyfriend. They’re (Kate and Steve) even dressing alike now in matching colors. She’s making a fool out of herself and embarrassing her children at the same time. The kids have asked if Steve is going to be their new daddy and are wondering if they’re going to get married. They’re very confused because they know Steve’s wife very well and the little kids ask “what about Gina?”

Fresh on the heels of Kate announcing on Regis & Kelly that she sits at home waiting for the phone to ring from the kids wanting to leave Jon and come back home to her, she added another nanny to the babysitting staff. This one is a live-in nanny who will be in the house 24/7. This can only mean that Kate will be spending even less time at home and with the kids, and even more time out traveling around with Steve. “If only the world could see what really goes on behind closed doors at Kate’s house instead of listening to the lies that come out of her mouth on a daily basis. I hope the truth finally comes out someday and Kate gets what she deserves – a big empty house with no kids, family or friends.”

In addition to Kate bashing Jon on TV, she apparently thinks it’s also OK to bash Jon on Twitter and to encourage other people to bash Jon on Twitter, which she’s been doing now for year
s.

There is one particularly hateful lunatic posting on Twitter who is one of Kate’s biggest supporters. Kate must love having her as a friend…for obvious reasons: Kate doesn’t have to bash Jon as much by herself when she’s got fans like this doing the dirty work for her. On one single day in August 2012, this person tweeted more
than 50 nasty tweets about Jon – which was viewed by Kate’s well over 150,000 Twitter followers.

Kate never once asked this tweeter to please stop speaking badly of Jon. Kate has
never
asked any tweeter to stop making nasty, sometimes vicious, comments about Jon, the father of her children. Instead, after all the nasty things this person tweeted, Kate tweeted this back to her on September 14, 2012:

I thank u for your constant FAIR surmising and opinions of situations re me/family! I think ur beautiful too! :) XO

“WE ARE NOT SCRIPTED”

“
We’re not scripted. You heard me. We are not scripted. We’re living.
The kids run in and out of the frame and they just live.”

– Kate Gosselin

Kate said this in February 2011, when she sat down with some of the ladies on
The Talk
. I say “some” because for some reason, the two most outspoken hosts of the show, Sharon Osbourne and Holly Robinson Peete, found something better to do with their time than to sit on the couch with Kate for 15 minutes. They were there before and after Kate’s interview, but not during. Strange.

“We are not scripted.”

Whenever you hear Kate make a statement like that, it’s a tell-tale sign that she’s lying, and after a little digging, I found a little more proof.

Here are some printed, “scripted,” voice-over assignments, written for and given to Kate, telling her exactly what to say for airing on
Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht
.

KATE

EPISODE #7

“So we thought it might be fun to take them to have their head shots taken.”

“But before we left for the photo shoot, we had our Saturday pancake breakfast, which has now become a Gosselin family tradition.”

“After pancake breakfast, there was a bit of a potty training party happening in the laundry room.”

“After pancake breakfast, a potty training session began, that was somewhat supervised by Mady and Cara.”

“Not surprisingly, Joel didn’t manage to use the potty that day.”

EPISODE #8

“Aunt Jodi, my brother’s wife, is coming over today to get the twins suitcases.”

“Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jodi are coming tonight. They’re bringing Cara and Mady with them. And our friend Beth will be there as well.”