Jon Gosselin’s girlfriend, Stephanie Lebo, praised his parenting abilities amid his ongoing feud with ex-wife Kate Gosselin.
“A choose awarded him custody for a motive. … It takes so much within the state of Pennsylvania for the choose to award full custody to a father, it’s normally veered in the direction of the mom,” Lebo, 35, informed The U.S. Solar throughout a Thursday, August 3, interview, pushing again towards “individuals [who] say that Jon is a foul father.”
Lebo added that Jon, 46, is a father determine to her daughter from a earlier relationship — 13-year-old Giuliana — despite the fact that he “doesn’t have to try this.”
She continued: “I believe typically with Kate and different individuals Jon has been round — is it one thing to do together with your childhood, rising up? [Were] there some points — is that why you might be how you might be?”
Jon Gosselin with girlfriend Stephanie Lebo. The US Solar/MEGA
Lebo’s feedback come after two of Kate, 48, and Jon’s sextuplets — 19-year-old Hannah and Collin, whom Jon gained custody of in 2018 — spoke out towards their mother in a July episode of the docuseries Darkish Aspect of the 2000s. (Jon and Kate additionally share Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel, all 19, and twins Mady and Cara, 22.)
Throughout the episode, Hannah claimed that Collin was usually “separated” from his siblings as a baby. “He wouldn’t get to return exterior and play with us. He would eat dinner at completely different occasions than us,” she alleged. “I don’t suppose effort was made within the dwelling to assist him be taught what habits is appropriate and what habits is just not acceptable.”
Collin — whom Kate despatched to Fairmount Behavioral Well being Establishment in 2016 to deal with his “particular wants” — has lengthy been estranged from his mother, who initially gained full custody of her eight kids after she and Jon break up in 2009. Collin went to dwell together with his dad after he left the establishment in 2018.
In Darkish Aspect of the 2000s, Collin alleged that his mother despatched him away after he began telling those that she was “abusive” towards him. “I used to be beginning to inform individuals what was occurring at dwelling, and she or he caught wind of that and needed to put me someplace the place I wouldn’t have the ability to get the secrets and techniques out,” he claimed.
After the episode aired, each Kate and Collin’s sister Mady spoke out denying his model of occasions.
“I’ve by no means needed to do that; however I really feel I’ve been backed right into a nook and left with no alternative,” Kate’s prolonged Instagram assertion started. She went on to say that Collin had “obtained a number of psychiatric diagnoses through the years” and was admitted to an establishment after he allegedly had “one among his many assaults/outbursts — this one involving his use of a weapon.”
Mady, in the meantime, claimed through her Instagram Story that Collin had “bodily threatened [her] and each member of [her] instant household” as lately as final yr, noting that she would “by no means permit somebody who has exhibited hateful and even violent habits” to be a part of her life.
A rep for Jon subsequently known as Kate’s claims about Collin “merciless” and “false” through a press release to The U.S. Solar. “[This] appears to be simply one other means for her to justify her inexcusable horrific previous habits towards him,” the rep’s July assertion continued. “Real love for a kid wouldn’t embrace a mom attacking their son to the general public. … Don’t forget {that a} choose awarded sole authorized and bodily custody of Collin to his father.”
Regardless of the continuing household drama, Jon — who stays estranged from his different six kids — lately shared a bit of fine information, going public with Lebo after two years of secretly relationship.
“We met at a yard barbecue at a mutual pal Dean’s home,” he informed The U.S. Solar on Tuesday, August 1, noting that the pair “by no means stopped speaking” after they first related.
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Jon added that he beforehand thought all his “relationships have been going to be a wrestle,” however discovered that issues got here “straightforward” with Lebo. “I really feel it’s taken 19 years to seek out Steph. All of the trials and tribulations, the heartbreak, the combating and worrying about who’s going to speak about me to the press, then lastly I meet Steph,” he stated.
