Overview
- Collin Gosselin is promoting a memoir titled In the Shadow of Eight that is available for pre-order and is listed for an October 13, 2026 release.
- Promotional copy for the book recounts reported claims of being held down, hidden in a basement and being given powerful antipsychotic medication as a child.
- Kate Gosselin and her representatives have denied intentional wrongdoing and have publicly characterized Collin’s allegations as rooted in mental illness.
- Collin shared photos of a Los Angeles dinner with Alexia Umansky that she publicized with messages of support, and Paris Hilton has also praised his project; the pair are presented as friends, not a couple.
- The memoir and its publicity are raising fresh public scrutiny of how reality TV and related institutions handle child participants, though no legal findings of abuse have been reported.