Jon Gosselin Spills connected 40th Birthday Celebration

Jon Gosselin is hoping clip heals each wounds.

Nearly 14 years aft breaking up with Kate Gosselin, the erstwhile Jon & Kate Plus 8 prima says his narration with immoderate of his kids stay distant. While Hannah, 18, and Collin, 18, live with dad, Jon's six different children Madelyn, 22, Cara, 22, Aaden, 18, Alexis, 18, Leah, 18, and Joel, 18, stay successful mom's care.

But Jon is optimistic their enslaved tin grow.

"Before, the kids surviving with Kate were nether her thumb but present they are adults and going disconnected to assemblage oregon the subject oregon whatever, I don't person arsenic overmuch fearfulness astir reaching retired to them," helium told The Sun successful an interrogation published April 1. "There was truthful overmuch angst betwixt Kate and I and my kids are pleasers, they wanted to delight their mom."

While Jon said helium ever wanted to speech to each of his kids, "I didn't privation to enactment them successful an awkward position."

Back successful 2007, Jon and Kate became household names erstwhile they allowed TLC cameras to papers their beingness with their twins and sextuplets. After the mates filed for divorcement successful 2009, the amusement was renamed Kate Plus 8 and featured specials done 2015.

In the years pursuing his divorce, Jon said helium was incapable to unrecorded his beingness to the fullest arsenic the media followed his each move. 

"I felt similar I've been nether a microscope my full life," helium said, "I was ever acrophobic to marque a move—in concern oregon immoderate benignant of beingness decision."

But now, Jon is focused connected doing much DJ enactment and enjoying a caller section without legal battles.

"Now there's nary custody and nary kid enactment due to the fact that the kids are adults and the cases are each closed," helium said. "It's a weird feeling. I ne'er truly planned for it. It happened truthful accelerated the kids increasing up. The clip conscionable slipped away."

E! News has reached retired to Kate for remark and hasn't heard back.