Kate Gosselin Writes Scathing Letter Defending Kids Against Jon's 'Developmentally Behind' Slam: 'He Made Untrue & Hurtful Statements About Them'
Nov. 5 2013, Published 3:42 p.m. ET
Jon Gosselin cut down his eight children during a segment with Oprah Winfrey‘s Where Are They Now? saying they have developmental problems and his ex, Kate, has unleashed her motherly fury in an open letter.
Kate responded on her official blog Monday evening saying she felt a responsibility to counter on her children's behalf for the degrading comments their father made about them — because they could one day find his interview online.
Jon claimed on the OWN show that Jon and Kate Plus 8 destroyed his marriage, his reputation, his career and his children, telling Winfrey of his kids: "Developmentally, they have problems with their peers, and they have problems with talking to other people, and they have problems with wants and needs and manners and morals and what’s right and what’s wrong. I think more so than someone who grows up off TV."
Kate shot back in her letter: "When our kids grow up, they may see their father’s latest interview and wonder why he made untrue and hurtful statements about them. I know that I risk stirring up an unwanted public and private 'frenzy' by commenting on this, but, if our children ever stumble upon that interview, I want to be able to point them to this statement so that they know that I publicly set the record 100% straight on this one, for their sake."
Placing some of the blame on the fact that his children grew up on a reality TV program, Kate also squashed that notion.
"It is also very normal in a family, especially a large family, to have a full range of person