Dark Secrets The Gosselin Family Tried To Hide

Jon & Kate Plus 8 was an endearing look at a young couple dealing with two sets of multiples—twins followed by sextuplets. Unfortunately, like many reality TV families, Jon and Kate Gosselin had a lot of skeletons in their closets...and more come out everyday. Here are the scandals the family tried (but failed) to hide.

Hoffman also claims in his book (via Radar Online) that Kate lied about having polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Hoffman claims Kate was never actually diagnosed with the condition, but sought doctors who'd prescribe treatments for it to increase her chances of conceiving multiples. "What Kate actually did...was to immediately give herself at least one more shot of [fertility treatment human chorionic gonadotropin], which she had purchased online in a kit...To keep the purchase a secret, she went outside the United States and purchased the drug overseas and had it shipped to her newly created post office box...She used the name K. Kauffman when ordering." Another excerpt obtained by Starcasm asserts Kate never struggled with infertility at all, and that she became pregnant in high school, but her father forced her to get an abortion.

Kate denied the allegations.

Hoffman's book claims Kate was determined to marry a rich doctor, leading her to get a nursing degree to make that pursuit easier. A source told Hoffman (via Radar Online), "Even during nursing school, Kate threw herself at every doctor she could find, even the ugly ones, but was rejected every time. That made her mad."

When she couldn't land an MD, Star (via Starcasm) says she set her sights slightly lower (in her eyes) to a factory worker named Adam Miller. "I spoiled Kate with gifts, like a diamond bracelet and a gold locket, and she loved that," Miller told the tab in 2009. "I think one of the main reasons she liked me is that I had so much money flowing." Unfortunately, Miller claims he caught Kate cheating on him with a wealthier man who owned a Corvette, noting, "She was always chasing the money."

In January 2015, after divorcing her children's father, Kate dated millionaire Jeff Prescott, who Entertainment Tonight reports dumped her for a 26-year-old by that September.

Kate did not publicly respond to the gold digger claims, and she also has not acknowledged Miller's existence.

Though Jon & Kate Plus 8 chronicled the couple's often tense relationship, especially in its final season, it didn't include what may have been the final nail in the marriage's coffin: Jon was accused of cheating on Kate's birthday in 2009.

Us Weekly reports that on March 28, 2009, Jon took a ski trip to Park City, Utah with a 23-year-old schoolteacher named Deanna Hummel. Witnesses claimed Jon and Hummel were snuggling and drinking all night. One waitress at an establishment they attended said plainly, "Jon was a dirtball." Hummel and Jon both denied the allegations to People, but Us Weekly published photos and video of the pair appearing very cozy for platonic pals.

When the evening's events were portrayed on the show, only Jon skiing with developmentally challenged children was aired alongside footage of Kate spending her birthday alone.

Both Jon and Kate have had trouble holding jobs since the show ended. TMZ reports Jon was sued by a former employer, Securus, for allegedly helping a competitor when he worked in sales, and since Jon never responded to the suit, a judge awarded Securus a default judgment of close to $1 million. Jon has also worked as a DJ and in restaurants, including at a TGI Friday's.

For her part, Kate has stayed somewhat in the public eye. People reports she was fired from her gig blogging for CouponCabin.com after 11 months, though it's unclear what led to her termination. She also appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, from which "The Donald" fired her in January 2016.

Rumor has it Jon may have supplied much of Hoffman's dirt on Kate in his book, and Jon's methods of obtaining the details were allegedly sketchy. Former nanny Santoro told Radar Online that during the couple's split (and her brief affair with Jon), the Gosselin patriarch told her he frequently "hacked" into Kate's various accounts. "Jon told me that he pretty much hacked into everything of Kate's that he had access to," she said. "Her online banking, that he had a trace on every single one of her emails so anytime she would get an email he would get a copy of it. He told me that he had enough there that when the ball dropped he would have enough to completely screw her over."

That doesn't mean Jon's comfortable with everyone knowing his business. Santoro dished, "Jon threatens everyone that he will sue them if they tell what they know."

When Kate caught wind of Hoffman's book, she sued for alleged wiretapping, computer hacking, identity theft, and invasion of privacy in an effort to block its release. Kate later dropped the lawsuit, and Jon never responded to any allegations.

Jon's rebound romance with Glassman (who happened to be the daughter of Kate's plastic surgeon), told Access Hollywood that Jon tipped photographers off to their whereabouts while they were dating. "There's a million reporters up at Indiana, and they're doing everything they can to paint me as Jon's trashy party girl mistress, because no one knows that Jon and his wife have been separated for almost a year," she said of her time with Jon. "I had no idea how the media worked. I find out while I'm hiding under the bed that he was setting me up the whole time with pictures. And I'm thinking to myself, 'How did they know I'm here?'"

Jon's other ex-girlfriend, Kate Major, told Radar Online, "Jon was always trying to ruin Kate and accuse her of being a bad mother. He spread rumors she was sleeping with [her bodyguard] Steve and he was trying to rally his friends against her as a mom."

Despite the harsh criticism from his exes, it's somewhat unlikely that Jon would call the paparazzi, considering he once fired a warning shot at a photographer and publicly apologized to Kate in 2012 for their messy public feud.

Remember when Jon was on Couples Therapy with then-girlfriend Liz Jannetta? She apparently wasn't his first choice. A source told Radar Online that Jon was so desperate to find a partner for the show that he actually appealed to ex Glassman first. "Jon reached out to Hailey a few months ago with a 'lucrative opportunity' if she'd just, as he put it, pretend to date him again," the source said. "He was desperate and it showed." Jon reportedly told Glassman he could net her $200,000, but she declined, the source said. "Jon thought it would make for better publicity if he went on the show with Hailey than with his actual girlfriend, Liz, who nobody knows."

Jon never responded to the accusations, but he and Jannetta have since split up. As of July 2015, according to Us Weekly, Jon was dating a registered nurse named Colleen Conrad who had two teenage kids of her own.

Jon told Oprah's Where Are They Now in November 2013 that he suspected his children had issues. "Yes, they got to travel the world, and yes, they got these fabulous things, and yes, they have trust funds, and they're taken care of educationally. Great," he said. "But 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 initially denied Jon's claims, but more recent reports suggest he was onto something. Kate confessed in August 2016 that the couple's son, Collin, was away getting help. "Collin has special needs," she told People. "[There's] a fairly fluid diagnosis of what those needs are, but he needs to learn certain strategies to help him deal with things. This has been a struggle we've had for a very long time, and it's one I've dealt with on my own. I've felt very alone in this. By the same token, it's not something that has only impacted me or him – our entire family has been impacted."

Kate's admission came five years after she vaguely denied rumors that Collin and Alexis got expelled from their school, instead saying the two tots suffered from "post-divorce anger" and that their school "wasn't meeting their needs."

Jon admitted to Entertainment Tonight that he doesn't pay child support for his kids, despite Kate having primary custody. "[Kate and I] both support [the children] financially because she takes care of school and all that stuff, but I take care of the exact same things she takes care of," he said. "I buy their own groceries, they have their own groceries at my house, their own bedrooms, their own stuff, it's doubled." Fair enough, but they're only at his house about once a week...and even then, it's not even all of the kids.

Not only does Jon allegedly not pay child support for his eight kids, he also hardly sees them. In January 2016, he told the Steve Harvey Show he hasn't seen one of his sons in a year and a half and explained that he and Kate don't co-parent or communicate at all. "Most of the time I get four [kids visiting weekly]. I haven't seen all of my kids together in about three years...I only get what I get...I pull to the gate, and whoever comes down the driveway, that's who I get. I'm not privy to any information, I don't know who I'm going to get."

Daughter Mady Gosselin told People in August 2016, "He makes it seem like we're being kept from him, which is insane. He should maybe spend some time thinking about why we don't want to see him, and maybe realize that if he ever does want a relationship with us, talking about us on TV is not the way to make that happen." She added, "He doesn't even know us. How can he dare to talk about us?"