# Jon Gosselin makes heartbreaking admission about eldest daughters amid ongoing family rift

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/jon-gosselin-makes-heartbreaking-admission-about-eldest-daughters-amid-ongoing-family-rift/
- Published: 2026-11-04T14:33:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T09:42:55+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://pagesix.com/2026/11/04/parents/jon-gosselin-makes-heartbreaking-admission-about-eldest-daughters-amid-ongoing-family-rift/
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Jon Gosselin says he would not recognise his twin daughters.
- He says he has not seen them for years and wants them to reach out.
- He is also estranged from four of his six younger children.

## Summary

Jon Gosselin says he has been so estranged from his 26-year-old twin daughters, Madelyn and Cara, that he would not recognise them in public. Speaking on a podcast, he said he has not heard their voices for years and hopes they will contact him, describing the separation as deeply upsetting.

Gosselin alleges that his former wife, Kate, cut him out of the twins’ lives when they were 13; this is his account, and the article gives no response from Kate to these latest claims. Divorced since 2009, the couple had eight children, and Jon says he has relationships with two of the sextuplets, Hannah and Collin, but is estranged from the other four. Collin has separately accused Kate of abuse in a memoir, which she has denied.

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