Kate Gosselin Gave Jon a $5-a-Day Allowance

Us Magazine - May 27, 2009 6:58 AM PDT
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The new issue of Us Weekly has even more details on Kate Gosselin's tight leash on husband Jon, and the long, strange private dynamic between the deteriorating couple.

"She used to give him only $5 to spend, and if he was out and needed more money, she would give him hell," his former employer at Style Craft Corp, David Rothermel, tells Us.

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Rothermel, who fired Jon for misusing company resources and remembers college dropout Jon looking online all day for freebies for the sextuplets, also recalls a very-pregnant-with-sextuplets Kate storming into the office one day.

"She came in raising hell because Jon's father was supposed to bring her lunch and he was late," Rothermel recalls. "She got up out of bed rest to come in and yell at anyone who would listen!" (The Gosselins later publicly concocted a story that Jon was let go by Rothermel because the company didn't want to insure the sextuplets.)

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Also during that time, when a friend of Jon's father donated a 14-passenger van to the family, Kate "never thanked him," says a source close to Jon. Instead, "she traded it in because she hated the color burgundy."

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During Monday's season premiere, a beaten-down Jon revealed his lack of self-esteem. "I can't write. Some people say I can't talk or breathe right, either." (Kate famously told him once to "stop breathing so loud.") Also on the episode -- the show's highest-rated episode of all time -- Kate admitted she's "been hard" on Jon during the 10 years of their marriage.

"I would never deny that. I've always regretted it," she says.

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For more details on Kate's terrifying control over Jon -- including how she banned him from seeing his brothers after his father's funeral, what you didn't see on the TV premiere and how his lack of motivation and love of money have kept him with Kate -- pick up the newest issue of Us Weekly, on stands today.

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  • chipper
    John is acting like an idiot. What is the count know 4 or 5 women and the babysitter he took to his apartment and left the children alone in the house. He is a pig. He obviously needed someone to control him. I never thought I would say this but I feel bad for Kate. I have always felt bad for the children. It is hard to beleive the cameras are still alowed to be in their faces tlc. ISH
    report abuseposted August 9, 2009 1:52 PM PDT
  • Great Grandma of 4
    Watching the show,and how Kate treated her husband Jon,made me realize why I lost my husband to another woman.I was a witch like her and controlling.Good job boss woman!It isn't easy to raise children alone!
    report abuseposted June 25, 2009 6:00 PM PDT
  • Great Grandma of 4
    Watching the show,and how Kate treated her husband Jon,made me realize why I lost my husband to another woman.I was a witch like her and controlling.Good job boss woman!It isn't easy to raise children alone!
    report abuseposted June 25, 2009 6:00 PM PDT
  • chipper
    Len, I don't think you know that their business and money are from the kids. Without them they would actually have to work real jobs like everyone. Instead they chose to live off of their children. My thoughts are cancel this show and allow the kids to have a real life. To the other person that commnted on child support payments. It would be the kids money. They just don't get.enou
    report abuseposted May 31, 2009 5:09 AM PDT
  • Scooter
    They need to grow up and look at what is important(the kids)!! Yes the paparazzi is going to take pictures, they are well known now. This is how the paparazzi make their money, if you don't want roomers spread or the truth told, stay out of trouble and away from the cameras. They should have known how their lives were going to be when it became a hit show. I just say good luck& hop
    report abuseposted May 29, 2009 1:28 PM PDT
  • Scooter
    If he was going to cheat, he should have just call it quits to start with. That goes for her also. $5 a week, I work and am lucky to get that much. It all goes to bills. What does he need money for? Bills are payed, food bought, items are given to the family, he has nice clothes, as long as she is keeping the gas tank full who cares. other then that I could live off $5 a month.
    report abuseposted May 29, 2009 1:24 PM PDT
  • Melanie M
    He needs to get his balls outta her purse and leave her %@!*#y ass! Yeah, he'll be raped with child support, but he still has a chance at being happy again! I feel so sorry for him! I hate cheaters, but this time, I don't blame him! It bugs me, that on their season opener, she never mentioned the fact that SHE was acused of cheating too - it was all thrown on Jon! he should take t
    report abuseposted May 27, 2009 4:45 PM PDT
  • John
    I wonder why kates parents are not of the family. she said once that her parents are not involed in there every day life. those kids are there grand kids
    report abuseposted May 27, 2009 1:48 PM PDT
  • stacie
    If I were married to Kate, I'd cheat on her too, she's a witch! I'm just suprised it took him this long!
    report abuseposted May 27, 2009 1:35 PM PDT
  • Holmes
    Look Jon didnt mind when she quit her job as a nurse and stayed home while he went to work. She was on camera most of the time and contributed. Now she had an opprotunity with books, not cameras here and took it and he had to stay home for a few years. Granted it may not have been an ideal situation but deal with it..dont whine about being unable to write to do something else.
    report abuseposted May 27, 2009 1:35 PM PDT
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