Reality TV personality Collin Gosselin is garnering support from fellow star Alexia Umansky as he prepares to unveil his explosive memoir detailing the challenging experiences of his childhood under the care of his parents, Kate and Jon Gosselin.
On Friday, Collin shared photos of himself dining with Umansky in Los Angeles on Instagram.
He captioned the post, “Went for the pasta 🍝 stayed for the good laughs and conversation. It was great catching up with friends over dinner in LA!!”
Umansky, daughter of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Kyle Richards and prominent real estate agent Mauricio Umansky, responded to the post with enthusiasm, urging, “Now you just need to move to LA! 👯.”
The “Buying Beverly Hills” actress shared her own Instagram Story featuring Collin on Friday, expressing her encouragement for his upcoming book, “In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood,” set to be released on October 13.
“So proud of @collingosselin1 and everything he’s standing up for,” she wrote, adding a heart emoji. “Proud to call him my friend.”
She then posted a pic of the cover of 22-year-old Collin’s book, writing, “So many of you watched @collingosselin1 grow up… So, many of you will want to hear his story. His book is available for pre-order.”
The Gosselin family rose to fame on the TLC series “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” which aired from 2007 to 2017. The show followed Jon and Kate and their sextuplets — Collin, Aaden, Joel, Alexis, Hannah and Leah — as well as their twins, Cara and Madelyn.
Jon, 49, and Kate, 51, split in 2009 after 10 years of marriage. In 2018, Jon received sole custody of Collin.
Throughout the years, Collin has accused Kate of “child abuse and child exploitation,” which she’s denied. Her lawyer told the US Sun back in September 2024 that he didn’t believe Kate had done anything to “intentionally harm” Collin, and that she “did what she did to protect herself and her family” from her son’s “troubled behavior.”
According to the description of Collin’s book shared by the publisher, his memoir promises to reveal the “never-before-told story of how [Collin] escaped and found his way back from the dark.”
His memoir will recount him “being held down, the basement cell where he was hidden for years and the cocktail of powerful antipsychotics forced on an 11-year-old boy.”
Collin has continued to publicly take shots at his mom ahead of the release of his book, and last month, Kate called him “mentally ill.”
The mother of eight responded to a TikTok user who commented on her recent post that she empathized with being “constantly disparaged and lied about” by an “adult child with a skewed version of their childhood.”
Kate replied, “Thank you! YOU understand. Sadly, only parents who have a mentally ill child understand!”