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In the wake of Jon Gosselin emptying the family bank account, Kate Gosselin appeared on The Today Show this morning to set the record straight.
Jon and Kate had a joint bank account with $231,000 that an arbitrator declared could not be withdrawn from by either party with the exception of Kate to pay the family bills.
Apparently Jon removed a large sum from the account a few days before she filed for divorce in June. “Not completely, but enough that I was worried,” Kate explained.
At the advice of her attorney, Kate then removed $100,000 to set aside in the event Jon took more money. She ended up giving Jon half of that amount to do as he pleased with – which resulted in purchasing “random” things for himself.
Shortly after they were instructed to abide by the arbitrator’s rules so Kate returned the money to the account, a decision she didn’t feel 100 percent confident about: “I didn’t feel like it would be safe, to be honest.”
She was right, because up until his last withdrawal from the account on September 29, he has left a mere $1,000 in the account that contains all of their liquid funds. A weepy Kate says:
“When you’ve left your children and their mother without the funds to pay for the roof over their head, it’s not acceptable. I need that money to provide for them. We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them. Never did I think I’d be back in the same position. I have a stack of bills in my purse I can’t put in the mail.”
The divorcing couple can’t seem to communicate with each other and Kate says that every time they come to some sort of agreement, “he hangs up the phone and does something different.” Other times she can’t reach him at all and has to make decisions on her own.
Kate further believes that Jon is on the receiving end of “bad counsel.” Remember, his first attorney dropped Jon as a client back in September. Kate gets a quick burn on Jon in, saying: “He’s always been one to listen to the one next to him.” Isn’t that the truth?
You were better off listening to Kate, you numbnuts!
As for the kids, Kate says their upset that they aren’t filming for the show:
“I told the kids over the weekend that we weren’t filming. Times eight, there was wailing and sobbing. They love the crew, they love the interaction, they love the events. It is not harmful to them. They are angry.”
Kate is still somehow holding out hope that Jon is going to change his ways saying, “I’m still hoping at some point I’ll receive a phone call, and the old Jon is back.”
We’re not sure how likely that is, but Jon definitely needs to return the $$$$$$ for the sake of his children! Kate’s mani-pedis and tanning sessions aside, the kiddies need to eat and a place to sleep!
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