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00:06Five months into our reporting about fraud and addiction, we got probably the weirdest tip that
00:15I've ever gotten in my career. This tipster, a minor celebrity, had read our stories and said
00:25they really needed to talk to us. The tipster was really emphatic. It was so unexpected.
00:33They said, you should investigate Dr. Phil. We were like, what the f*** is that? I mean,
00:40like, that's ridiculous. We're serious people and we are not going to investigate Dr. Phil
00:44because that is not a serious thing to investigate. We were wrong.
00:55We haven't asked you to do this anonymously. This is at your request. Is that correct?
01:03Yes. I hear the ratings are huge. So you must be like, yeah, I'm the man. Well,
01:09if you're going to do it, do it right, I suppose. But really, I'm proud of what we've done.
01:13I truly think that it's the highest and best use of television.
01:18Dr. Tell it like it is, Phil McGraw!
01:21I would like for people to have a real idea about Dr. Phil.
01:28They are there to get you in and out so fast, have a taxi cab literally sitting out there. I
01:33bawled my eyes out in that cab.
01:38They're set up to fail. They're manipulating it.
01:43We had to do absolutely everything that we could to get them there.
01:48I had no say in anything at all the entire time we were there.
01:53My traumatic experiences were seen as entertainment.
01:58Fear is permanent every day.
02:02It was a cult. You feel like you're working for the devil.
02:06Technically, he's not a real doctor, but, like, he's Dr. Phil. That's his whole brain.
02:12He is no stranger to controversy, and television's Dr. Phil is under fire once again today.
02:18He's the most successful guy on television. What happens to this guy? Who can touch him?
02:22I'm never surprised now when somebody comes out and says that Dr. Phil exploited them.
02:40When it comes to talk shows in the sort of 90s, how was America engaging in its problems on national
02:48TV, would you say?
02:49Wow. Okay.
02:53Throughout the 80s, the talk show began to become a bigger and bigger thing, where it would be a family
02:58in crisis, and the host would talk to them, and maybe they'd bring out an expert.
03:03And Oprah Winfrey very quickly became the queen of daytime television.
03:14She brought a whole bunch of people on at the same time.
03:17Susie Orman, financial wellness guru.
03:21Dr. Oz, who is now working for the federal government.
03:23And then Dr. Phil.
03:24My next guest is here to help lead you in the right direction.
03:27I've chosen him because he is the person who helped me the most getting through my trial.
03:33Oprah got to know Dr. Phil from using the business that he had built before he became a TV shrink.
03:40Opening statements are set for today in the Texas Cattlemen's lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey.
03:45Oprah and her production company knew they needed help, so they called Dr. Phil McGraw at Courtroom Sciences.
03:52When you get on the witness stand, it can rock you back on your heels, and you can be less
03:57effective than you might be otherwise.
03:59Oprah really liked his manner, so she started bringing him on.
04:03Dr. Phil is here. He's definitely all wound up and ready for action.
04:07He was speaking kind of truth in a way that felt good and felt kind of emotionally satisfying.
04:13You can't be romantic enough for her to want to have sex three times a day.
04:18Okay?
04:19Dr. Phil was a breakout star. Dr. Phil went from being an occasional guest on the show to being a
04:24regular guest on the show to being a fixture on the show.
04:27Now to a man known to tens of millions of television viewers as simply Dr. Phil.
04:32He's emerged as a top contender for the eyes and ears of advice-starved Americans.
04:36Within a couple years, they gave him his own show, and immediately, like, his face was suddenly everywhere.
04:42Man, are you making a splash. Your show is what? The number two daytime show after Oprah.
04:48He became like Oprah in that you don't need a last name.
04:52And then when she left, he was on top.
05:02I'm Evan Allen, investigative reporter at the Boston Globe.
05:08In 2017, I was working with another reporter on a series of stories about the addiction treatment industry.
05:17We were starting to get a lot of tips, and it was sort of through that that we got the
05:23tip about the Dr. Phil show.
05:26Ain't life just grand? It's lots of hard work. It truly is.
05:30But really, it is pretty damn glamorous and exciting.
05:35First, we just started watching the show. Like, we watched a lot of Dr. Phil.
05:42In the early days of Dr. Phil, the segments are funnier. They're lighter.
05:47No running water in the bathroom?
05:49Whoa, whoa!
05:51I shook y'all's hands when you came up here.
05:53The next clip shows he was straight-talking Texas guy, cutting through the bullshit,
06:00because he cares about you, and he's going to tell you the truth, and it's like a truth that you
06:03need to hear.
06:04You teach people how to treat you, okay?
06:08You need to stand your ground and start the negotiation over,
06:12because you got some help now. You got me. All right?
06:17Later, there was a turning point where the tone really shifted.
06:25With every step of investigation that we did,
06:29the picture got bigger and darker.
06:34This was the first time that I had ever watched the Dr. Phil show,
06:37with my full attention and with any critical thought.
06:41In the first four years of the show, he still was a licensed psychologist.
06:47Because I feel like I've been given a very powerful platform,
06:52and I need to be a good steward of that influence.
06:55And so I weigh very carefully what I say before I say it,
06:59because I know millions of people the world over are watching him.
07:01But then we found that in 2006, he let his license lapse,
07:08which means that he's not a licensed doctor.
07:12After that, you can see yourself.
07:15The show became more sensational, more disturbing.
07:19She claims her father is a violent, dangerous psychopath.
07:23It goes from, like, mom's on the edge to my daughter thinks she's pregnant with baby Jesus.
07:29What will the ultrasound show?
07:31I am pregnant.
07:34And it is Jesus.
07:35It is so outrageous.
07:38He presents himself as this trustworthy, straight-talking doctor.
07:45That's his whole brand.
07:48But the reality is so at odds with the thing they are pretending to be.
07:56I just don't understand why people go on the show.
08:15I was 16 in high school.
08:19That's when I wound up finding out that I was pregnant.
08:24Me and my boyfriend broke up about a month into the pregnancy.
08:32I didn't really feel comfortable with, like, abortion.
08:35I felt that it was the right choice to take care of it and hold myself responsible.
08:43Everybody was very conflicted.
08:45My stepfather did not feel confident in my decision.
08:50My mom just wanted to support me.
08:54Her and my stepfather were fighting nonstop.
08:56She was just desperate.
08:57She didn't want to have to choose between her husband and her child.
09:03So she wrote in to the Dr. Phil show.
09:11The night before flying out, I said to my mom,
09:15please don't make me go on the show.
09:17And that is when she had told me that, you know,
09:20if you care about your family, then you're going to go on the show.
09:24And despite not wanting to go, I went.
09:40When I first talked to the Dr. Phil show, I was reached out to.
09:43I didn't ask for help.
09:45Investigators say Cassandra Taruga wanted to kill a pregnant friend
09:49and then steal her baby by performing a C-section.
09:53In 2011, I was 18 and pregnant when my friend asked to come over to my house.
09:58According to court paperwork, Taruga came over with two large butcher knives and a pair of scissors.
10:04She told me that there was this gift that she wanted to give me.
10:09She told me to turn around and close my eyes.
10:11She just says, one, two.
10:14And right when she says three, I felt like there was a knife to my back.
10:20I stood up as fast as I could, ran and turned the light on.
10:24911 was called.
10:25The cops were there.
10:26They could all see two large butcher knives.
10:30They also found scissors, disinfectant, a baby onesie, a newborn blanket.
10:35That's when I started to realize she had plotted to kill me
10:38and perform a C-section on my body to take my unborn child.
10:45The next day, I had every news station sitting outside my house.
10:51Everybody wanted to have an interview with me,
10:54but they wanted to change my story to make their own narrative of what had happened.
10:59So I declined everybody
11:04until I received an email from a producer from The Dr. Phil Show.
11:11They were just kind of different.
11:14They wanted to give me that platform to tell my story,
11:17and they would be honored to be able to do this.
11:21They said that specifically?
11:22Specifically.
11:23They wanted to give me a platform.
11:26I just trusted what the producers were saying.
11:30The Dr. Phil Show was like royalty.
11:32There was nothing but good things that anybody said about him.
11:38I guess that's what it seemed like.
11:47I grew up watching Dr. Phil.
11:50And I was happy to be there at the start.
11:56There was no standards around the content that we would produce.
12:01It was never about how can we help this person.
12:06I think I would describe Dr. Phil as something of a manipulative egomaniac.
12:13The guests don't realize how personal they're going to get
12:15and how bad it makes them look.
12:21We had to do absolutely everything that we could to get them there.
12:27We were told to tell them that it's going to be life-changing,
12:29that he's going to help them, many, many other lies.
12:33Everybody believed that he was a real doctor
12:35and that, you know, he had the best of intentions for that.
12:38It really wasn't until they actually, like, got on stage
12:41that it all sort of started to fall apart.
12:44I mean, it was really brutal.
12:54They flew me out there.
12:56The producers were super nice.
12:58They sent a cab to come get me and my baby.
13:01They even bought a car seat for him.
13:04I was actually really excited for the whole thing.
13:10I was told to make sure that they were taken care of.
13:14That was my job as a travel coordinator,
13:16to make sure that it was flawless from door to door.
13:20Your hotel's going to be paid for, your meals.
13:23You'll take care of all of it.
13:26Was that the brief that you were told
13:28to make them feel like sort of stars?
13:31Yeah.
13:34We did get picked up by a very large limo.
13:39They gave us a five-star hotel.
13:44The hotel room was very, very nice.
13:47We got $150 of room service a day.
13:51Having somebody come and get me things,
13:53especially being a mom, I was like, wow, this is nice.
13:59You're in the glitz of Hollywood.
14:02There's a sedan picking you up
14:04and taking him to the studio,
14:06right into the iconic entrance to Paramount Pictures.
14:12I mean, your head is spinning.
14:15So there was a lot of love bombing, basically.
14:18Yes.
14:20By the people working to get these people on the show.
14:28When you were in it, did you enjoy it?
14:33No.
14:35No.
14:38It was an open area.
14:40Call it the bullpen.
14:42Where all the producers and APs and PAs all sat.
14:48The anxiety just was everywhere in that office.
14:57What was Phil like?
15:03He was an intimidating person.
15:06He was a very tall, big guy.
15:10It's a sort of direct, booming voice coming at you.
15:14And the way Dr. Phil treated the producers
15:18created an environment of fear.
15:22You don't want to end up in a room
15:24with Dr. Phil being screamed at.
15:28Fear is permanent anxiety every day.
15:35The producers were high-strung and erotic.
15:39Like, they didn't seem like broken people.
15:41They were just awful people.
15:50I never felt I can go to someone about what was going on.
15:56It's a place of control.
16:00The audience, they don't know the true man behind the persona and the name.
16:07That's all made up.
16:09It's a lie.
16:23I was only 17 when my mom wrote the show.
16:30Our family was very broken.
16:34My brother had molested me when we were younger, twice.
16:39He was taken out of the home by family services
16:43and my mom signed away her parental rights to him.
16:48But when he was in the custody of the state,
16:50he never actually finished any kind of sexual offender program.
16:55When he turned 18, they let him go and he moved in with my dad.
17:00He was doing whatever he wanted.
17:04He was just really messed up.
17:11My mom was scared that he was going to re-offend.
17:14She knew he still needed that help.
17:18That's why she wrote the show.
17:22My mom was like,
17:23the Dr. Phil show answered me and, you know, we're going to get help.
17:27I had been in therapy for years,
17:29but my mom didn't want me to be re-traumatized.
17:34But the Dr. Phil producers said that either I went
17:37or they weren't going to do it at all.
17:41You know, he was still my brother.
17:44I thought it would be good for everybody.
17:54When we first got to the studio,
17:56the producer that I had been working with from day one
17:58was like, hi, Angelique, like, it's so nice to see you.
18:02They start treating you like royalty,
18:04making you feel like you're important.
18:05Like, everything about you is amazing.
18:08And it gives you that little bit of trust
18:10where you're just like, man, like, I'm so excited for this.
18:17So we started to reach out to guests
18:19who had been on the show.
18:20We started to hear the same story again and again.
18:24And people described sort of feeling pressure from the producers,
18:29a little bit entrapped almost,
18:31like they didn't know how to get out anymore.
18:33And that was when some people described feeling like,
18:38maybe I don't want to do this.
18:41We drove to Paramount.
18:45We went to this little area with a bush, kind of hidden.
18:49It was like a little door.
18:50And in there was all of the interview rooms.
18:55They were very passionate in saying,
18:58he wants to help you guys so much.
19:00Like, it's going to be this life-changing thing.
19:02And my parents believed this.
19:06So despite going, I was very vocal to the staff
19:09that I didn't want to be there.
19:11And they told me that I was being a difficult child
19:13and that I just had to do what I was told.
19:17It actually got to a point
19:18where they attempted to coerce me into doing it
19:22by telling me that maybe, you know,
19:26if you record your interviews,
19:28maybe we can have Dr. Phil help you get your boyfriend back.
19:36When we went to do the interviews,
19:38they separated my mom and I.
19:42Once we started filming,
19:44one of the producers wanted me to talk in detail
19:48about my brother molesting me for about four hours.
19:54They wanted specific details said in certain ways.
20:01I was kind of forced into that.
20:03And I realized, I want to go home.
20:07When I told the producer, I don't want to do this,
20:10she looked directly at me and she said,
20:12if you don't film this episode tomorrow,
20:15we won't pay for your way home.
20:20We were a low-income family.
20:23We didn't have the money to pay for a plane ride back
20:26for all four of us.
20:28So there wasn't really anything we could do about it.
20:32Did you feel in any way in control,
20:37like you had agency?
20:38Oh, no.
20:39I had no say in anything at all.
20:43I was only 17.
20:46I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
20:51I was just a kid.
20:53A very naive, you know, kid.
21:01If you step back and look at the experiences
21:04of these guests sort of broadly,
21:07they really do mirror the arc
21:09of like an abusive relationship.
21:14Drawing you in, making you dependent,
21:17making it so you can't leave
21:19and get them to do what you want.
21:23And I do think that that is power.
21:29I mean, one of the guests told us
21:32that they risked his life for ratings.
21:40Most of the guests,
21:42they're set up to fail, essentially.
21:46When they arrive to the studio,
21:49they're manipulated.
21:53Say you have someone who has an alcohol problem.
21:58Let's just casually put vodka in the green room
22:02to then come out intoxicated.
22:07Did that happen?
22:10Yeah.
22:11Yeah.
22:13That was after my time,
22:14but I knew about it.
22:19Alcohol in a guest's room,
22:21if that would create some drama,
22:23was absolutely something that they would do.
22:25The producers would want to set people up.
22:35Todd Herzog, one survivor at 22,
22:38he was addicted to alcohol,
22:40which is an extremely dangerous type of addiction.
22:46He said that when he went into his dressing room,
22:49he found full bottles of vodka and he drank one.
22:55When you watch the episode,
22:57Dr. Phil is like,
22:58well, we have to get Todd out here.
23:01Well, I'm asked Debbie and Brandon
23:02to bring Todd out right now,
23:04and that's going to be a bit of a chore,
23:07but we'll do what we can here.
23:09Okay, come on.
23:09Shoot.
23:11Dr. Phil and one of the interventionists
23:14each take an arm.
23:16Everyone is quiet,
23:17and all you can hear
23:18is just Todd crying quietly.
23:24I'm sorry I'm crying
23:26because I just can't believe this is happening.
23:31Dr. Phil is like,
23:32I want to see how drunk you are.
23:36This is a breathalyzer.
23:38I want you to blow into it really hard
23:40for five seconds when I tell you.
23:44Todd felt like the Dr. Phil show
23:46had left the alcohol in his room.
23:51I don't believe they just have breathalyzers
23:53hanging around.
23:55It just suggests a level of premeditation.
23:59So then Todd blows a 0.26,
24:01which is very high,
24:02and Dr. Phil puts up on his screen
24:06the effects of alcohol
24:08at that blood alcohol level.
24:10At 0.25,
24:12just so all of you know,
24:14all mental, physical,
24:15and sensory functions
24:16are severely impaired,
24:18emotionally and physically numb,
24:21and possible loss of consciousness.
24:23And Dr. Phil says,
24:24I've never spoken to anyone closer to death.
24:28Take him to the hospital.
24:30What are you doing?
24:36It was a very weird experience
24:37to feel upset at something
24:40that everyone else sees
24:41and nobody thinks
24:42there's anything wrong with it.
24:45The hypocrisy is so rank.
24:48Once you understand
24:50that what it actually is,
24:52is a ritualistic humiliation
24:56of people who have come to you for help,
25:00you can't watch it
25:01and think it's funny
25:02or meaningless anymore.
25:03It's just sad.
25:11Phil is not doing this
25:12to help this person.
25:15These people are objects
25:17to bring onto stage,
25:18bring in ratings,
25:19and then get them off.
25:23It's all about the bottom line.
25:28It was dysfunctional
25:30and probably amoral
25:31and terrible,
25:32but it worked well enough
25:34to be the top syndicated show.
25:37I think it's hard to tell people
25:39to not watch that train wreck,
25:41especially if watching that train wreck
25:43makes you feel better about your life.
25:45I don't think that's good for people,
25:47but it never stopped the next family
25:48from wanting to come in.
25:53If it's a question of, like, ethics versus ratings,
25:58we may talk a better game now.
26:01It's, I mean, it's all bullshit.
26:03Like, everyone wants to make, you know,
26:05something that'll be shared
26:06by a bajillion people on social media.
26:11Ratings always are going to win.
26:17Guests that we spoke to,
26:18they described producers
26:20telling them how amazing this was going to be
26:22and how Dr. Phil chose them
26:23because their story was important.
26:26But I think he saw people
26:29as things to be manipulated
26:31for ratings.
26:34And then they would get out on stage
26:36and it would be just humiliation.
26:45Right after you're done with hair and makeup,
26:47they put you in, like, this room.
26:49It was just for my son and I.
26:51Me and my mom weren't even together.
26:54Before getting on the stage,
26:55they had us sign stuff.
26:58Did you tell your mom again
26:59that you really didn't want to be there?
27:01Yes, I did.
27:01However, my mom told me that
27:03since we were already there,
27:04that it was too late.
27:07At 16, I wasn't comfortable with that.
27:11From my point of view,
27:12I did not really have a choice.
27:15I repeated to everybody in the room,
27:18the producers, hair and makeup people,
27:20everybody,
27:21is there any way we can back out of this?
27:23And they told me no.
27:27I was terrified.
27:33So this is the release.
27:35Dr. Phil does not and will not
27:37administer individual group or medical therapy.
27:40You have to agree that you will not sue
27:44for invasion of privacy,
27:46defamation,
27:48infliction of emotional distress.
27:49I mean, you give up all your rights
27:51to go and you're horrifically humiliated
27:53in front of America.
27:54And then you're like,
27:55oh, I signed.
27:58Somebody comes and goes,
27:59okay, it's time for you to go on.
28:02You just head out to the stage
28:05and all you see is bright lights everywhere.
28:14I remember going up on the stage
28:16in front of this live audience.
28:20Physically, I was shaking.
28:21I could hardly speak.
28:27When the cameras began to roll,
28:31immediately Dr. Phil brought up
28:34how teen pregnancy was over-glorified
28:36and introduced me as sort of like Exhibit A.
28:41Were you having unprotected sex?
28:44Yeah, I was having unprotected sex
28:46and I was on birth control.
28:49We were all told that
28:50it was about bringing the family together,
28:52but I was very, like, shocked and scared
28:56to see him picking a side.
28:57Did you get pregnant on purpose?
28:59No, I did not get pregnant on birth.
29:01Did you want to get pregnant?
29:02No.
29:04And you want to keep the baby?
29:06I'd like to keep the baby.
29:08And raise the baby.
29:11But what you really mean
29:12is you want to keep the baby
29:14so your family can raise the baby, right?
29:17No.
29:18Immediately, this was about
29:20stupid, dumbass Emily
29:22who does not know what she's doing.
29:25Who out of everybody involved
29:27is least equipped to make this decision?
29:30I haven't even met this man
29:31and this is what he'd already determined
29:34about my entire life
29:36and all of my capabilities.
29:38She's a child having a child.
29:40But part of growing up is to realize
29:42when you choose the behavior,
29:43you choose the consequences.
29:45And she chose a behavior here
29:47with a consequence that affects
29:48a human being
29:49for the rest of their life.
29:53Dr. Phil did not ever address
29:55that it was my choice.
29:56In fact, I did feel at the time
29:59that Dr. Phil was depriving me
30:00of that choice.
30:06I felt absolutely humiliated.
30:16There wasn't any kind of conversation
30:18with Dr. Phil before we actually started.
30:23Dr. Phil walks out
30:24and the whole audience claps
30:27and then I went out on the stage
30:29and, you know, sat in the chair
30:31and they changed our names
30:33to be anonymous.
30:35Well, 17-year-old Addison says
30:37her 18-year-old brother Colin
30:39is selfish, arrogant,
30:41and has molested multiple people,
30:44including her.
30:46Once he had talked to me
30:47for a little bit,
30:48they brought my mom out second.
30:51He talked to my mom
30:53and then he said,
30:54I just want to let you know
30:55that your brother's interview
30:56is going to be played
30:57on the screen
30:57in front of everybody.
30:59We're going to hear from him now.
31:01He does talk about
31:03some of his violation of you
31:08in somewhat graphic terms.
31:10We've edited it down
31:11as much as possible.
31:13Are you okay with us playing this?
31:16Yeah.
31:17And you had no idea
31:18that they were going to do this.
31:19I didn't.
31:21That was the first time
31:23I heard him talking about it.
31:26My sister was asleep on the couch,
31:28so I went in there
31:30and I was feeling sober her clothes
31:33and I reached my hand down her pants
31:36and I took it one step further
31:37and reached my hand down her panties.
31:40He went into detail
31:41about exactly what he had done to me
31:44and I was reliving that trauma
31:47on a stage
31:48in front of an entire audience.
31:51They brought my brother out next.
31:54We had been separated for years,
31:58so I did confront him
32:00maybe a couple times,
32:02but I pretty much stayed quiet after that.
32:06I honestly, just sitting there on that stage,
32:08I felt like I wanted to die.
32:11And then Dr. Phil kind of leans up
32:14like he's trying to crack a joke
32:15and he goes, well...
32:17I'd like to thank all of my guests today
32:19and we'll see you next time.
32:21Mom, stop.
32:26It was like making a joke out of the whole thing.
32:31Dr. Phil walked off the stage
32:33and that was it.
32:38I just remember feeling gutted
32:40like the wind had been knocked out of me.
32:43They don't care about your mental health.
32:45They care about their show.
32:50Of all of the horrible stories
32:53that I have heard about the Dr. Phil show,
32:56I think Marcy Newberry's story is the worst.
33:00When you're watching that teenage boy
33:02describing in graphic detail
33:04his sexual assault of his 11-year-old sister,
33:08and then Dr. Phil makes her watch
33:10in front of a studio audience,
33:13who are the people that are watching it
33:15and thinking like, yeah, this is good?
33:19It's like child abuse.
33:20It's like watching child abuse.
33:23But it's entertainment.
33:31Before I walked out on the stage,
33:33I thought I was going to throw up.
33:36Because I had a really bad feeling
33:37that something was wrong.
33:42I was prepared to tell my story.
33:45And he immediately goes into,
33:47you had warning signs, though.
33:49Now, you had an instinct
33:51and you ignored it, right?
33:52Yes, I did.
33:53You said you had a strange feeling about her.
33:55Yes.
33:56He was like, this happened,
33:58yet you did this.
33:59This happened, but you did that.
34:02So it rose to the level
34:03that you actually said it out loud.
34:06Yes.
34:07But yet, you stayed home alone with her
34:09when your mother took the boys to football practice.
34:12And I'm like, yeah, but that's not...
34:14And then he's like, wait, hold on,
34:15but then this happened,
34:16and I'm like, you're not letting me talk.
34:18How do you really ask somebody, like,
34:20hey, are you trying to kill me?
34:21That's how nice you are.
34:23If the conversation has gotten to the point
34:26where that question is part of the dialogue,
34:31then it's time for them to go home.
34:36When the audience and him laughed,
34:39that broke me.
34:42I felt humiliated.
34:44I felt like he was blaming me.
34:46And then all of a sudden,
34:48he brings out this book.
34:51I wrote this book about people like you,
34:55about nice people who get taken advantage of.
34:59The book is called Life Code.
35:03I was used.
35:05Dr. Phil promoted his book
35:07and said that it's about people just like me.
35:10People that are too nice.
35:12But he used the fact that I trusted the Dr. Phil show
35:15to do it.
35:17That is what a narcissist does.
35:22And he's a master manipulator on that part.
35:28When the show ends,
35:30he doesn't even say a word to you.
35:32He just walks right past you like you're nothing.
35:34Woo!
35:35Bye!
35:37The producers are like,
35:38you did so good.
35:39You know, let's go back to your dressing room.
35:42They are there to get you in and out so fast.
35:45I bawled my eyes out in that cab.
35:50I came onto the show to take 10 steps forward.
35:56I had taken 10 steps backwards.
35:59Dr. Phil just basically stated that I was stupid.
36:02And it made me feel like I deserved what happened.
36:07That's always stuck with me.
36:08It's something that I can't get out of my head.
36:11I'm still working through it, through therapy now.
36:28I just told my mom I was scared to go home.
36:32And I was afraid to face the world
36:38after kind of learning that everybody in the world
36:41was against me.
36:44My mom, she apologized.
36:47She has told me many times that it was probably
36:51the worst decision that she's ever made in her entire life.
36:55And that she would do anything that she could to take it back.
37:01Because of Dr. Phil, for a very long time,
37:04I was very hyper-fixated on making sure
37:07I was always doing the right thing.
37:09I suffered a lot of very bad anxiety attacks.
37:14Now I realize that I should have been protected.
37:20I did not have to listen to what everybody told me.
37:25I was not being a difficult child
37:27because I didn't feel comfortable going on television.
37:31I had boundaries.
37:32And those boundaries should have been respected.
37:41Despite what Dr. Phil said,
37:43I have an incredible daughter.
37:45She is 13.
37:46And she is an honor roll student.
37:50An advanced orchestra.
37:52First chair.
37:53She gets straight A's.
37:54She's literally the most thoughtful, empathetic child.
38:00She is everything that Dr. Phil did not expect.
38:12Literally, I remember one guest out of, I mean, 50 plus
38:16that left in a better space than they came in.
38:22The first text that you would get,
38:23you've ruined my life.
38:25I'm never going to live this down.
38:27I mean, the messages, just horrible.
38:30Horrible, horrible.
38:33I don't think they really cared about the guests
38:36or if they got better.
38:38I think the guests felt like they got thrown out like trash
38:42when they bared their souls on this show.
38:46We have an aftercare program
38:48where we follow up with 100% of the people
38:52that are on the show.
38:53At no expense to them.
38:55Care in their own community
38:56to work out the problem.
38:59There is something that he has over people.
39:04People say that they watched his show
39:06and he seemed to help people
39:07and he sends people to the best treatment
39:09in the whole world.
39:10But I have a really hard time understanding
39:13how you can believe it.
39:16I think people went on this show expecting
39:18that it was going to fix their lives.
39:22And that's not what happened.
39:32Once we got home, everything felt different.
39:35I didn't feel okay.
39:39There was a night where my brother's interview
39:41just kept playing in my head
39:43and I decided that I didn't want to be here anymore
39:45because I knew that that was going to air
39:47on national television.
39:56I took 30 pain pills.
39:59I fell on the floor and I had a seizure
40:01and then I was taken to the hospital after that.
40:03I don't remember a lot.
40:05I was really out of it.
40:09I almost died.
40:12The family was still broken.
40:14Honestly, way more than we were
40:15before we went on the show.
40:19They throw you out there.
40:21They send you home and you never speak to them again.
40:26I was put in a psychiatric facility for a little bit.
40:31My mom declined mentally and physically.
40:35She's in a nursing home now.
40:37I don't see my dad ever.
40:40And my brother is in prison.
40:43He got five years for possession of child pornography.
40:51I just hope Dr. Phil realizes what he's actually done
40:55and how deeply they hurt people.
41:01Their promise of care.
41:03I can tell you that it comes at a price.
41:08Over a decade of hell for us
41:10is just an episode number for Dr. Phil.
41:13I told the neighbors,
41:15get cameras, film it all.
41:18They're paying them as consultants
41:19to make sure that the Dr. Phil referrals
41:21keep rolling in.
41:23What treatment providers actually go
41:25on the Dr. Phil show?
41:27Surely Dr. Phil wouldn't be sending
41:29kids off to be abused.
41:31Dr. Phil says,
41:33I have security guards at every door.
41:35Nobody leaves.
41:36All of us have wanted
41:39to say,
41:40this happened.
41:41Please stop this from happening.
41:43It's very hard to follow the money,
41:46but you know the money's going somewhere.
41:49No.
41:49No.
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