we bring back john's mentor rabbi shmuley boteach. he authored the book "the broken american male and how to fix him." rabbi, good to have you back. let me read one facebook comment. publicity stunt. why doesn't he get a job to pay for the child support. jon is nothing but a deadbeat dad. shmuley, are you sure he is sincere not just using you for publicity sway here? >> let's be honest, when someone does something immoral they should be condemned and when they do something morally courageous they should be applauded. jon gosselin taking responsibility for his actions was morally courageous. we need more husbands to do the same thing. we have a 50% divorce rate and simply condemning people is not going get us tr. he was sincere. a man and woman should not be judged by their words. you need to be judged by his actions. his actions will tell us what he wants to do with his life. i do believe that jon took one message from last night to heart which is his audience is not this show. his audience is his eight children. >> that's right. >> y

synagogue for an apologetic and public chat with his new swifrl adviser, celebrity rabbi, shmuley boy ta boteach. >> he was michael jackson's spiritual adviser. >> reporter: with prodding from rabbi shmuley, jon admitted he hasn't exactly been the best role model for his children. >> i will be the model of my daughters' husbands. so if i act the way i'm acting, they will probably marry someone like me. >> would you want them --? >> in the last eight months, probably not. that would probably be very bad. i would be very upset with that. >> reporter: and jon also is apologizing for starting a controversial relationship with 22-year-old hailey glassman, the daughter of the doctor who performed kate's tummy tuck. hailey and jon became a very public twosome have soon after jon and kate announced their split. at his synagogue confessional, jon admitted that was a bad move. a confession seen this morning on "good morning america". >> i'll apologize to her for openly having relationships in the public eye and that was a huge mistake. because if she would have done that to me, it's almost like a stab in

showbiz tonight" he's going to rediscover his spiritual side with the help of celebrity rabbi shmuley boteach>> he's going to be meeting with rabbi shmuley and he's going to be making a statement at the upper west side synagogue on sunday night. he wants to apologize to people that he's offended. >> reporter: so it looks like the new spiritual jon gosselin has no interest in teaming up with the octomom right now. but the producer of the proposed reality show is holding out hope. he tells "showbiz tonight," "gosselin is playing hard to get. we'll see over time if he's worn down with what i see as his insatiable need to be part of the spotlight." and the producer is giving some advice to gosselin. >> he thinks that jon should definitely take $1.5 million, because he thinks in six months, jon will be asking him to do "cheaters" for free. >> reporter: so with the octomom/gosselin reality show looking doa, we're left to ponder the reality tv trash-fest that might have been. >> and there is just something so d-list and so seedy about the two of them, we can only wonder what a show bringing the two

. >> reporter: rabbi shmuley boteach revealed these taped conversations with michael to "showbiz tonightause it shows a side of michael that is so contradictory to the super star who played before millions of fans. >> i would just give up. there was nothing i could do. you know? and i hated him for it. hated him. >> i don't think michael was ever known as a man. i don't think we ever understood his brokenness. i think we judged him and rejected him. >> i think that everyone, all of michael jackson's fans, still embrace him, despite all of these things that we are finding out after his death. but i think that's the thing about most pop stars. finding out their dark secrets actually makes us really love our celebrities and our pop stars even more than we did before. >> and tonight, yet another brand-new michael jackson secret revelation. michael's dad filed court papers to get an allowance from his late son's estate. michael didn't include his dad in his will. joe jackson says he has $15,000 worth of monthly expenses. those are expenses that michael was supposedly helping joe out with befo