Kate Gosselin gave Jon Gosselin a $5-a-day allowance

**mrs.v** · May 27th, 2009, 08:56 AM

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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.

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.)

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."

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.

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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**Sweetie** · May 27th, 2009, 09:06 AM

He should have just kept his own checks and gave her an allowance.

**CherryDarling** · May 27th, 2009, 09:15 AM

^
Exactly.

And her hair makes me wanna

**TheONe** · May 27th, 2009, 09:57 AM

I feel bad for him BUT he had to know what he was getting himself into when he put that ring on her finger!

**Grimmlok** · May 27th, 2009, 10:05 AM

dude needs a spine transplant, not hair plugs.

**Laurent** · May 27th, 2009, 10:15 AM

Why roll over for this type of shit?

**CornFlakegrl** · May 27th, 2009, 10:34 AM

I'm starting to think they were perfect for each other. He lacks balls, imagination and ambition. She needed a sperm donor whipping post.

Soul mates.

**sluce** · May 27th, 2009, 10:51 AM

Our local news has been all over this since they live here. Last night they interviewed some of her former co-workers from she was a nurse. They had nothing nice to say about her. One former patient said she hopes Jon divorces her. It's getting really crazy and no one seems to be thinking about the kids.

**TrevMaxwell** · May 27th, 2009, 10:58 AM

Poor guy, he really needs to get laid. Serioulsy. Some hot 23 year old big breasted blonde to just "lay it on him", he'll get his balls back and leave that shrew of a wife (and that stupid "reality" show)

**sluce** · May 27th, 2009, 11:03 AM

Here is a link to the story the local news did and Kate's former co-workers discuss her.

On Jon and Kate: "I Hope They Get a Divorce" | NBC Philadelphia

**BoogsBun** · May 27th, 2009, 11:06 AM

She's not alone. I give my hubby a weekly allowance. He has ZERO budgeting skills, and thinks we have a never-ending supply of money. I literally had too, because he used to spend $50-100 a week on food at work (breakfast and lunch). I don't care if it makes me a bitch, but I like having electricity, water, heat, and food in the house.

**rockNroll** · May 27th, 2009, 11:10 AM

So wait a min. I married man cheats on his wife, is never home anymore, basically saying he has given up on his family and yet it's Kate who is the monster, simply because she doesn't tolerate his bull? SMH

**sluce** · May 27th, 2009, 11:14 AM

He may have cheated and she may have cheated. He was always home while she traveled the country selling her book and speaking. He went away for a weekend once she got back from being gone for 25/30 days. She is a monster for how she treated him for the last 10 years which has lead to him wanting out. He has not given up on his family but I do think he has given up on his wife. I personally think he has a been an ass if he cheated and he allowed her to treat him this bad for way too long. He is not innocent but she is the worst IMO.

**DeadDwarf** · May 27th, 2009, 11:16 AM

They just said on the news that 9.8 million people watched the season premier, it was the most watched show on Memorial Day.

**landerq** · May 27th, 2009, 11:22 AM

Hey, I've berated my husband for breathing too loud. Many times. He was smoking like a chimney and sounded like a 90 year old. I would tell him "Stop breathing so goddamn loud. I don't want to be married to an wheezing old man. Smoke another cigarette so you get cancer and die and I can inherit all your money and buy myself a young boy toy who doesn't sound like Walter Brennan, you old fuck." We have a loving relationship like that.

And ya know, he eventually quit smoking and doesn't breath so loud anymore. I guess it was easier to quit than to listen to my constant harping. Being a bitch can pay off sometimes.

And now all I have to do is work on the snorting like a little pig when he eats.