“Jon & Kate Plus 8” star Jon Gosselin decided to tell all in the first TV interview after the divorce announcement with ABC’s Chris Cuomo in a Good Morning America and “Primetime: Family Secrets” special to air on Tuesday (September 8).

Jon claims he was constantly verbally abused and beaten down by his wife Kate Gosselin and confesses he cannot even sit by her side on the couch anymore because she became someone he despises.

“Our relationship will never be fixed,” Jon said. ” … I don’t trust her anymore. I was abused … I was beaten down … I’m not going back to that life style.”

“Well, excuse me, I’m taking care of the kids,” he added. “She’s on book tours, she’s doing all these things. You know she’s gone a week … comes back. Packs up and leaves again…I’m standing there like, ‘Oh, okay. Your mom’s gone again.’”

“But I can’t sit on the sofa with that woman. I can’t sit on someone right now that I despise. I despise [her] because she’s not speaking from the heart,” he said. “Please — the stuff you tell me in private should be the stuff you tell me on TV.”

The father-of-eight accuses his estranged wife of not making an effort to try to save their marriage when she refused to go to counseling. On the other hand, Jon says he is glad to finally be himself again and feels things can only get better with his new love, Hailey Glassman.

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