Jon Gosselin Says He Was Cut Out of His Kids’ Lives by Ex-Wife Kate

Jon Gosselin has made a heartbreaking confession about his estrangement from his twin daughters, Mady and Cara.

He says he wouldn't even recognize them if they walked right past him on the street.

The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, 49, laid bare the devastating toll of his fractured family during a Tuesday, November 3, appearance on the Legally Goff podcast.

He claimed ex-wife Kate Gosselin shut him out of most of their children's lives.

He said she left him knowing next to nothing about the adults they've become.

"I haven't seen Matt and Cara in like forever," Jon candidly revealed to host Brooke Goff.

"Yeah, I wouldn't be able to pick them out on the street."

"I have pictures of them, but I still wouldn't be able to pick them out on the street."

"That's how much I haven't seen them."

"I missed graduations."

"I missed proms."

"I was alienated from all that stuff."

"I don't know anything about my twins."

"If they have boyfriends or girlfriends, or what favorite color they have now, or if they drive a car, I know nothing."

Jon revealed that the alienation from his two eldest children started when they were 13 years old.

"I've been alienated since they were 13 years old," he said.

He stressed that the degree of alienation is "like silence."

"Like I've never heard their voice," the former TV dad said.

He then reflected on how quickly things changed following his 2009 split from Kate, 51.

"Like, one day I was an all-active, everyday parent, and it's upsetting, I know, and people are going to hate hearing this, but, you know, I was just cut out of their lives," Jon claimed.

Jon speculated about why his daughters had so firmly turned their backs on him after their parents' divorce.

"They, I guess, believe the narrative of TLC that I'm a s------ and that I don't want to see them," he revealed.

He seemed to pin some blame on his former show's network.

TLC continued to follow Kate and the former couple's eight children in the spinoff, Kate Plus 8, after the pair divorced.

The show ran for six seasons.

It followed the former nurse as a single mom raising her massive brood of twins and sextuplets: Hannah, Collin, Joel, Aiden, Alexis, and Leah.

Jon believes Kate told the kids he didn't want them.

Meanwhile, Jon and Kate's son Collin Gosselin, now 22, has also spoken out about his childhood on reality TV.

Collin's memoir, In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, is currently #1 on the Amazon nonfiction charts.

It has over 5,800 reviews and 4.9 stars after three weeks on the list.

In the book, Collin describes the way his mother isolated him from his siblings, abused him and sent him away to a facility at just 11.

In a new podcast interview with his Special Forces co-competitor, Candace Cameron Bure, Collin told some of the harrowing stories about his childhood.

Collin grew up on reality television and has well-deserved criticism for influencers who put their children online.

"The scariest part as a young kid was not having that say in that," Collin said.

"You're so young and then the first thing you ever know is cameras and lights and you're a performer."

"You're there to perform."

"There's this dynamic of 'my value to my family is my performance, right'?"

"I didn't choose any of it."

He described moments where production would bring out puppies to get happy shots.

"They'd get the pictures."

"They'd get the happy moments and laughs."

"And then they'd cut and take the puppies away, take the ice cream away, whatever it was."

"There were so many of these little moments… it was scripted happiness I called it."

"Just to get the right shot and then it was like poof gone."

"Why can't I just be a kid?"

"Why can't I just play with the puppies?"

Collin also spoke about how his mother rejected him.

"It was something that was reflected onto me and it could have been because of multiple different reasons," he said.

"Maybe she saw a lot of my father in me."

"Maybe she saw just that I was more naturally stubborn."

"But there was there's just so many moments even captured on the show where I mean I make efforts to to put myself out there to bring my mom gifts to bring her flowers."

"And I just constantly get knocked down."

Collin called for changes to laws for kids on social media.

"It can't be healthy for a child to understand that their reality is just cameras, and that their worth is drawn from how they can perform for their parents," he said.

"It is not your children's responsibility to bring income into the family and put food on the table."

"That's the parents responsibility."

"Why are they your… income?"

"Children are not your meal ticket."

"I see so many kids being exploited today," Collin added.

He said his book is dedicated to adults "to be the responsible ones to say, 'We need to put a stop to this.'"

"I've made it my excuse to use my voice to change what possibly may happen to other children in this industry," Collin said.

"I want to advocate for other kids."

"I want to make sure that, no matter what happens, they don't go through the same things I went through."

Collin told Candace that his first memories are of cameras being in his house.

"The scariest part as a young kid was not having that say in [being on TV or not]," Collin said.

"You're so young and then the first thing you ever know is, like, cameras and lights and you're a performer from the first point of consciousness."

"You're there to perform and it's weird because there's this dynamic of 'My value to my family is my performance', right?"

"That choice…is a big thing because, like I said, I didn't choose any of it."

Candace Cameron Bure, who began acting at age five, said she was very much in control of her acting career and wanted to perform.

She contrasted this with Collin, who had it thrust upon him by his parents.

"You didn't have that choice."

"You were thrown onto reality TV with your family, cameras everywhere in your living room," she said.

Jon Gosselin's claims add another layer to the family's complicated story.

The father of eight says he was an active parent one day and completely cut out the next.

He says he now knows nothing about the lives of his oldest children.

He says the silence has been total for nearly a decade.