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Reality TV star Jon Gosselin teamed up with Michael Jackson’s ‘celebrity rabbi’ for a bizarre public apology as he bids to improve his tainted image.
The 32-year-old has made headlines for his partying and womanising since a high-profile split with Jon & Kate Plus 8 co-star and wife Kate Gosselin earlier this year.
But in recent days, he has been showing remorse for his behaviour – and put his PR machine into overdrive with a press conference alongside Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, close friend and confidante of Michael Jackson.
“I think I’m just misunderstood. I’m not a fame seeker. Every day, I look in the mirror and I wonder [why I'm famous],” he told the media inside the West Side Jewish Centre in New York.
“I don’t sing. I don’t dance. I’m not a Nobel Peace Prizewinner. I just had eight kids and I had a show on TLC (TV channel).”
Wearing a sober black suit, and without his trademark flashy earrings, he spoke about how he became intoxicated by celebrity.
He said: “Half the stuff I’ve done, if I look at my moral compass, I shouldn’t have done. I know that but I did it anyway. It’s like fame cancelled out conviction.”
“I want to apologise to Kate in private,” he added. “I’ll apologise to her for openly having relationships in the public eye.
“That was a huge mistake, because if she would’ve done that to me, I would have been extremely pissed off. Not because our relationship is over, it’s almost like a stab in the back.
“And now that I think about it, it was a very wrong thing to do. I definitely regret it.”
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