Eric Roberts Calls Kate Gosselin A Child Abuser
Nov. 8 2010, Published 4:20 a.m. ET
Move over Jon, Kate Gosselin has a new media foe: Eric Roberts. The actor recently opened up about his recent Twitter posting in which he called the reality star mom “a child abuser.”
“I know she's fading from the news, but hopefully someone's still got their eye on the wellbeingsic of her kids. Kate Gosselin is a child abuser,” Roberts wrote on November 1. Over the weekend, he expanded on his opinion to the blog Small Town Gosselins.
“Thank goodness there is footage of Gosselin hitting her kids, and apparently feeling fine about it. I say thank goodness, because behind closed doors makes it that much tougher to stop,” Roberts explained. While he doesn’t think reality television is “inherently bad” (and recently went on reality television himself for VH1’s Celebrity Rehab), he thinks the Gosselin children’s state of life is an issue.
“They have an awful mother, and a father who doesn't stop her.”
Roberts also addressed the report that the eight kids split 15% of Kate’s alleged $250,000 per episode salary. “The number of kids Kate and Jon have are the reason Kate and John have money,” he said. “It would be awful if financial stress was added to those kids' problems. But the money should be divided 10 ways.”