If you watched her show, you can’t turn on her now without being a hypocrite

Aug 5, 2014 18:59 GMT  ·  By
Kate Gosselin is persona non-grata in showbiz right now, especially with fans
   Kate Gosselin is persona non-grata in showbiz right now, especially with fans

Kate Gosselin was once the biggest reality star on TLC, thanks to her show with her and Jon Gosselin’s 8 kids. She always had her detractors, but she was popular and seemingly universally loved. How the mighty have fallen.

For several weeks now, since TLC asked her back for a 2-part special, Kate has been getting a lot of negative media. None of the things said now were exactly new, but they generated hateful responses from former fans of her show nonetheless.

Without exaggerating, one could say that Kate Gosselin is being painted as a monster in the press and in the blogosphere, but her former best friend and the author of her book “Million Little Blessings” Beth Carson believes that we’re the ones to blame for creating and unleashing this monster into the world.

She’s not denying that Kate is a horrible person to be around but she says that, if we too find her this awful, we should take responsibility for making her be this way.

In a new interview with Radar Online, Carson turns on her former best friend by saying that, if no one had tuned in for the reality show, perhaps Kate would be a much better person today. For the sake of clarity, it was Kate who first turned on Beth, when she tried to remove all evidence of her involvement in writing the aforementioned book, so she and Jon could take all the money from the sales.

This considered, Carson could actually say much nastier things about her than trying to blame her horrible character on her former viewership.

“I think society has to take some responsibility because every person who tuned in and fed the fire, cannot turn around and now criticize her. You’re essentially patting her on the back, so who are you to turn around and say she’s gone too far?” she says.

The worst part is that the former viewers of the show forget that it’s not Kate who stands most to suffer from all this, but her 8 kids, the same kids she dragged into the spotlight when she and Jon agreed to be on TLC, to open the doors to reality TV cameras.

“I think it will be interesting — it’s kind of become this social project of society. Like, what has society done? They were so highlighted and so out there on TV, as real people, so the kids are the first products of that. The kids were really the first ones who had no choice, they were infants. It has influenced their every moment of every day,” Carson continues.

If we’re talking about assigning blame, perhaps Carson should look first at TLC and only afterwards at the viewership Kate’s reality show got. After all, if it hadn’t been for the network to throw money at her in exchange for access to their most intimate moments, there would have never been a viewership to speak of.