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Kate Gosselin is allegedly panicking ahead of the release of her estranged son Collin's bombshell memoir.
Collin, 22, has vowed to expose the 'abuse, injustice, and the exploitation of children' in the tell-all, titled In The Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, which was announced last week.
And according to a source connected to the family, the mother of eight, 51, was blindsided by news of the memoir's release.
'Kate had no idea this book was in the works,' the insider said, adding, 'Collin hasn’t spoken to his mother since she abandoned him in an institution as a young child.'
They continued, 'She didn't expect any of this to ever come out. Now she's spiraling because she knows it's about to hit the fan.'
The Kate Plus 8 star has already told people around her that any wild accusations against her are based on 'zero facts', but Collin is claiming that he has 'the evidence to back everything up' in his book.
Collin's siblings are also expected to be blindsided by the memoir, as they were so young when their brother was institutionalized and 'don't really know the truth of what happened to him' beyond what their mother has shared with them over the years.
While it's unclear exactly what will be featured in the book, Collin has promised to lift the lid on what it was really like growing up on reality TV as part of one of America's most infamous families.
He previously lashed out at Kate in a 2023 documentary with Vice TV and then again in a shocking interview with The Sun in 2024, in which he accused his mother of abuse and of alienating him from his siblings.
Collin also revealed that Kate had him institutionalized in a mental health facility when he was 11 after he was diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and bipolar.
Kate refuted Collin's allegations of abuse in a statement to People at the time, saying, 'My son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years.
'For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs.'
Collin was later re-diagnosed as an adult and was found by a clinical psychologist not to have any current psychiatric or behavioral issues.
