Talk show in which Dr. Phil McGraw invites guests to confront their problems.
Genre: Talk-Show
Cast:Phil McGraw , Madison Graber , Robin McGraw , T.D. Jakes , Sara Gallaher , Travis Stork , Todd Herzog , Troy Dunn , Nancy Grace , Nathaniel Best , David Foster , Kate Rigg , Nadya Suleman , Khalood Bojanowski , Steve Kovalcik , Jerry Bojanowski , Debbie Knauss , Brandon Knauss
Robin McGraw on Embracing Differences: The Behind-the-Scenes Star.
Dr. Phil discusses the trials and tribulations of Heather Sampson living with Cystic Fibrosis as well as the effects it has on her family.
Dr. Phil teaches the guests how to live happier, healthier lives; a mother wants to be a better parent; lazy husband; finicky wife;
Guests with compulsive behaviors and addictions learn the reasons for their behaviors and how to control their habits;
Gaining perspective on a spouse's daily life; Dr. Phil puts his marriage to the test by switching daily routines with his wife, Robin;
Dr. Phil challenges viewers to reengineer their over-scheduled, over-expensed, and over-stressed lives; how decisions lead people to live life beyond their means emotionally, physically, financially; solutions to chronic over-commitment;
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N00b and Medic found a method to take any objective without getting killed.
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A mom seeks help for her 29-year-old live-at-home daughter, who she claims uses drugs and has used her name to open credit cards.
Discussion of being too cheap and spending too frivolously.
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Break down barriers blocking your blessings! Watch Kenneth Copeland on Believer's Voice of Victory explain you can receive everything you need in life by releasing your faith and activating the anointing power of God.
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Dr. Phil discusses the problems that can come with reunions by examining the reunions that took place on the WeTV show "The Locator" with Troy Dunn.
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Dr. Phil talks to families that are on the brink because the father is a first responder. He also talks with one couple who have made their marriage work in spite of the husband's intense career as a firefighter. Kirk Cameron and Alex Kendrick also appear to discuss their film "Fireproof" and why they think these families can survive.
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Dr. Phil talks to filmmaker Eric Steel about his documentary "The Bridge" and meets helps family and friends of the people left behind after suicide attempts from the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Dr. Phil talks to men who believe that they should not be forced to be financially responsible once they have gotten a woman pregnant.
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Mom Susanna competes in the same beauty pageants as her daughter, Victoria.
Mario cheats on his 3rd wife Christine and attempts to push blame on her. They both met while Mario was married to his 2nd wife and had a year long affair without her knowledge. Ultimately that affair was discovered and Mario divorced his 2nd wife to be with Christine.
A man says he was shocked & appalled when his ex's mother accused him of sexually molesting his young daughter.
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A young woman accuses her friends of ruining her future in beauty pageants, claiming they sent compromising pictures of her to pageant officials.
A woman admits that she fears her abusive boyfriend, but she's also afraid to leave him.
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A teen's ex-boyfriend and sister accused each other of being involved in her death.
A man, accused of being involved in the missing person case, is offered a polygraph test, in an attempt to prove his innocence.
The parents of two young boys, killed in a drunk driving accident, discuss the events that led up to the fatal shooting of the motorist, afterward.
As a television reality star faces allegations of rape and molestation, his adult daughter gives her side of the story. Also: a man, accused of fatally shooting the motorist responsible for the death of his two sons, is interviewed.
A live-in nanny has a face-off with her ex-employer, after making headlines by refusing to leave their residence.
Part 1 of 2. A Michigan woman tells her side of a story that includes accusations of murder and child abuse.
Conclusion. A Michigan woman tells her side of a story that includes accusations of murder and child abuse.
Two adult daughters accuse their mother of cheating on their stepfather and leading a secret sex life filled with questionable behavior, and their mother claims they've acquired misinformation and are blowing things out of proportion.
A contentious relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter is discussed.
Part 1 of 2. A woman claims to have video evidence of her husband abusing her.
Conclusion. A woman claims to have video evidence of her husband abusing her.
A couple, with a long history of domestic abuse, seek advice to save their relationship.
Actress Kelly Rutherford discusses a recent legal battle for the custody of her children. Later, a couple reaches out, for help, with their daughter, who is affected by Tourette syndrome.
A mother discusses her concern for her teen daughter's older boyfriend.
Parents seek advice to help control their child's frequent fits.
A recently married couple seek help to save their relationship.
A woman is skeptical of her mother's online relationship. Also: updates from former guests.
A family seeks help for their daughter, who exhibits frequent and violent outbursts.
A mother's recent change in behavior causes concern and circumspect amongst her daughters.
Two women claim their father left their dying mother for a woman he met online.
Parents of a young man reach out for help dealing with his violent outbursts.
A couple claim they are being harassed by an online group, led by an ex-employee.
A young woman admits to getting pregnant by her older boyfriend, on purpose, in an attempt to gain acceptance from her skeptical parents.
A woman accuses her half-sister of being a liar and damaging family relationships.
Custody of a teenage girl comes between two sisters.
Parents seek assistance with their son, who lashes out with violent behavior and threats.
Motivational speaker Troy Dunn is called in to assist a woman who's looking for her children she claims were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
A woman claims to have been raped by her father, after a night of partying, six years ago. Later, a polygraph test is given to both father and daughter.
A couple seek assistance with their adult son, who they claim is unmotivated about moving out of their house.
A couple seek relationship advice, after claims of infidelity and alcoholism come between them.
Two women, who have never met in person, claim they are being stalked by the other via the Internet.
The murder of a 7-year-old girl in 1957 is discussed. Included: interviews with the victim's family and that of the man accused of committing the crime.
A young man, who was convicted of impersonating a physician's assistant in Florida, is interviewed.
A couple return seeking help with their troubled marriage.
A man, who admits he has a drinking problem, claims that it has led to other issues, including homelessness.
A family seeks help for their teenage daughter, who they claim is experimenting with illegal drugs and alcohol.
A couple seeks assistance retrieving their children, who were placed into foster care, after a previous appearance on the show.
A professional fighter is accused of assaulting his wife on multiple occasions.
A woman, accused of giving her son a fatal dose of pharmaceutical drugs, is interviewed.
The 2010 shooting death of Michelle O'Connell is discussed.
A family with three drug-addicted daughters.
The parents of a 20-year-old man, who died of a drug overdose, blame their son's girlfriend for his death, but she denies it was her fault.
A mother and daughter defend their sugar baby lifestyle of dating wealthy, married men for money. Also: Kendra Wilkinson discusses her marriage.
A married couple seek help to end their fighting, that usually occurs in front of their two young children.
Part 1 of 2. A woman is accused of faking different medical issues, in order to gain attention.
Conclusion. A woman is accused of faking different health issues, in order to gain attention.
A woman is accused of restricting her children's access to their dying father.
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Michelle Wilkins shares her story of surviving a brutal assault, in which her fetus was removed from her womb, after she answered an online ad.
Former Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton lives a secret double life as a Las Vegas call girl.
An interview with actor Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Criminal Minds (2005)), who's been battling substance abuse and depression.
A man, who raised his nephew, struggles to accept his nephew's revelation that he identifies as transgender and wants to become a woman. Also: the reaction of the nephew's wife.
A look at a messy custody battle involving an MMA fighter, whose ex-wife claims he has an unfair advantage in court because of his status as a local celebrity.
A mom seeks help for her 29-year-old live-at-home daughter, who she claims uses drugs and has used her name to open credit cards.
A heated child-custody dispute, involving a little girl's parents and grandparents.
Part 1 of 2. A daughter thinks her stepfather and stepsister are responsible for her mother's puzzling disappearance.
Conclusion. A missing woman's stepdaughter offers information about the night her stepmother vanished. Also: a friend describes the missing woman's marriage as volatile.
A 20-year-old woman claims her mother kicked her out of her home when she was 15, and then she falsely accused the teen's father of sexual abuse, when he tried to get custody of his daughter.
A man is worried that his mother's husband is a fraud, who's only interested in her money.
A man's wife and daughters express concern about the amount of time he spends using social media and sexting.
A woman who lost both her own mother and her eldest daughter, within a short period of time, is so devastated she claims she can no longer be there for her three other daughters. Also: an update on former guests who lost weight.
A woman's father and sister are concerned for her safety, following her reunion with her supposedly abusive fiancé.
The parents of a terminally ill man fear his wife is only interested in his life-insurance policy.
A mother expresses concern about her adult son, who claims he's a famous songwriter, but in reality is a homeless drug user.
Eight siblings, who were trapped and abused by their father, confront one of the women who was a "wife" of their dad's. The woman claims she was also one of their father's victims, but the siblings accuse her of being partly responsible for their abuse.
A woman believes her husband was unfaithful and wants to divorce him, and he says he will take a lie-detector test to prove he did not cheat on her.
A woman, who was accused and then acquitted of kidnapping her own daughter, seeks supervised visits with her child, but her estranged husband won't allow it.
Parents of teenagers, who are dangerously obsessed with social media, seek help for their kids.
A woman seeks to repair her relationship with her birth mother, who's become increasingly volatile since their reunion.
A couple are in disbelief about how their academic, star-athlete son dropped out of college, and he expresses anger toward them for kicking him out of their house and having him arrested.
A legally blind teenager and the classmate, who defended him against a bully, talk about the incident.
Oprah Winfrey discusses her documentary series, "Belief", which is about faith and spirituality. Also: a woman talks about forgiveness and guilt, following a tragic incident in which her best friend accidentally killed her toddler daughter.
The marketing entrepreneur who created the People app.
A daughter wants her mother to get help for her gambling addiction, because she fears her mom will soon lose her home and custody of her teenage son. Also: an update on a millionaire, who lost everything and had to live in his parents' garage.
A former model, who was injured in Iraq after joining the Marines, admits to becoming a drug addict, and her parents blame each other for her troubles.
A successful esthetician shares her story of how she landed in jail after her business was targeted, and she claims she now knows who's responsible for trying to destroy her.
Exes fight over custody of their 5-year-old son, with the wife claiming her son's father is a controlling stalker, while he claims she is a paranoid drug addict.
A guest, who once had anger issues, returns to the show and seeks reconciliation with her daughter, who chose to move out and now roams the country as a homeless person.
A pregnant woman fears her mother will try to take custody of her baby after it's born, and her mother claims that her daughter's in an abusive relationship relation, which will jeopardize the baby's safety.
Seven sisters worry that their father, who has acquired money for his former mistress by conning and stealing, is being scammed by this woman, who claims she need this money for her medical conditions.
A married woman, who's raising her grandson, is torn between her stable husband and her passionate boyfriend, and the men confront each other, for the first time.
Former journalist Rochelle Herman-Walrond shares how she worked with the FBI and recorded ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle discussing the topic of having sex with minors. Included: segments from the actual recordings.
Details from ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle's audio recordings, in which he discussed the topic of having sex with minors.
A woman fears that the relationship between her brother-in-law and her teenage daughter has become inappropriate, but her brother-in-law insists that he's just being a father figure.
An uncle tries to defend his interactions with his teenage niece, in the face of accusations from family members who label his behavior as inappropriate.
A woman accuses her son-in-law of not being able to provide for his family, while he denies her accusations and claims she's judgmental.
A woman, who damaged her own eyesight, explains her story. Also: insight from two doctors.
A woman accuses her husband of using bullying tactics to get her to sign a postnup agreement, but he denies this and claims he's just protecting himself, since she's been unfaithful to him in the past. Included: insight from an attorney.
A woman is worried about her neighbor's two daughters and the custody battle over them.
A concerned neighbor worries that two young girls are possibly being harmed, as their parents battle for custody, and the parents make wild accusations against one another.
A woman, who faked pregnancies and ran a surrogacy scam, comes face-to-face with one of the couples she swindled.
A teenager discusses being a victim in a sex scandal, involving Russell Taylor and Jared Fogle.
A man claims his wife wants a divorce because she's delusional and infatuated with country-music star Kip Moore, while she accuses her husband of abusing her.
A woman fears for her 18-year-old daughter's safety, claiming her daughter's survivalist boyfriend is brainwashing her and has even held her hostage.
A man claims his ex-wife got pregnant, on purpose, and is capable of telling outrageous lies, such as accusing him of molesting their teenage daughter, when she was a toddler.
A young man and one of his adopted siblings discuss the horrors they endured, when they and several other children were abused by his father and stepmother.
An aspiring male model accuses his parents of abusing him as a child, while they deny this and claim he was abusive toward them as a teenager, and that his rage once led him to be institutionalized.
Michael Lohan discusses losing custody of his youngest children, sons, with his wife Kate Major.
Part 1 of an interview with 29-year-old Burke Ramsey, brother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
Part 2 of an interview with 29-year-old Burke Ramsey, brother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
While filming a show about being an uncontrollable teen, Danielle steals a Dr. Phil (2002) crew member's car; Barbara Ann wants to turn 13-year-old Danielle over to authorities.
A family is concerned about their brother's erratic behavior, which includes setting his own house on fire.
Part 3 of an interview with 29-year-old Burke Ramsey, brother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
A workout instructor claims she's being stalked by a former employee.
Part 1. The parents of a missing boy believe his stepmother is withholding information about his disappearance.
Part 2. The stepmother of a missing boy discusses what she believes might have happened to him and gives her own insight into his behavior, before he disapproved.
Marcia fears that her 19-year-old daughter is living in a motel, with a pimp and a prostitute, who she thinks have taken her under their wing.
A couple with a troubled marriage seek advice from Dr. Phil. Also: the husband releases a secret he's been withholding from his wife.
A woman pleas with her son's pregnant girlfriend to leave him, as she accuses him of being a con artist.
A woman's harsh parenting tactics are blamed for her own son murdering her mother.
A young man leaves his family and heads to California with the hopes of becoming a hip-hop star. Meanwhile, his family claim he is living on the streets and worry about his well-being.
A woman claims that her own father sexually molested her when she was a child. A polygraph test is administered to him.
An interview with the fiancée of convicted killer Steven Avery (Making a Murderer (2015)).
Part 2 - Convicted murderer Steven Avery (Making a Murderer (2015)) is interviewed, via telephone, from behind bars.
A teenage girl caught in a custody battle between her father and grandmother. Also: Dr. Art Markman discusses his book, "Brain Briefs: Answers to the Most (And Least) Pressing Questions About Your Mind".
A woman claims she's taking over caring for her sister's son, while she's out partying.
New information comes to light, seven years after a girl goes missing during spring break.
A woman claims her ex-husband took their two daughters and refuses to return them; he says the girls ran away from her because she has a problem with alcohol and dates abusive men.
Two parents battle over custody of their two teenage daughters. Robin and Daniel's daughters, ages 12 and 14, say they have been torn between both parents for years; Daniel reveals a heavy accusation against his ex-wife.
Twin 16-year-old sisters say they may only have a few months to live, due to their deadly eating disorder; their father blames their mother and says he is ashamed to be seen with them.
Dr. Phil interviews the man sentenced to prison for stalking and harassing actress Brooke Shields. He claims he was wrongly convicted of the crime.
A woman accuses her sister of choosing her boyfriend over her own children.
The focus in on a female teacher, who had an alleged relationship with a 17-year-old student.
A teenager's family is concerned about her infatuation with a man in Argentina, that she met through a video-game.
A woman is accused of creating her own health issues, in order to monopolize her daughter's time.
Dr. Phil assists a mother and her transgender teenager, who are facing issues with their relationship.
A family seeks help with their patriarch, who has been accused of domestic violence and child abuse.
Brandon and Danielle trade accusations, in an ongoing custody battle for their 10-year-old daughter.
Brandon and Danielle continue trading accusations in their custody battle for their 10-year-old daughter.
Three sisters want their mother to acknowledge that one of them was sexually abused multiple times as a child and that their mother's current husband exposed himself to her toddler grandson.
All charges have been dismissed against the man convicted of killing D.C. intern Chandra Levy in 2001; former Rep. Gary Condit, said to have had an affair with the young woman, breaks his silence.
Pamela's husband, who used to be a priest, left her and their two teen sons for a massage therapist, then their 15-year-old son committed suicide.
Pamela says her husband abandoned her and their two teen sons for a massage therapist, causing one of their boys to commit suicide; the ex-husband and his sister counter with their own accusations.
Irina, 78, says the man, she met online and fell in love with, is stranded in Nigeria, and she has sent him her life savings to help him return; Dr. Phil investigates.
Kristi says her daughter is a compulsive liar, who is currently telling everyone she is nine months pregnant, though doctors say she is not.
Haley, who insists she is pregnant and about to give birth to Jesus, the Son of God, learns the results of her ultrasound.
Alyssa's family say that, since her husband's death, she has spun out of control, drinking, partying and spending excessively, she exhibits unusual behavior with the show's staff.
A young woman tells of being brutally raped, then tricked into saying that she had consensual sex, and the charges against her rapist being temporarily dropped; her lawyer and a police veteran tell how she was finally given justice.
Vicki accuses her daughter of abusing her granddaughter, causing bruises and calling the child "worthless" and "stupid".
Cindy says she still loves her husband, despite their marriage being full of fights, assault and calls to the police; a violent incident happened between her husband and their oldest son, the day before the show taped.
Niki goes from being a straight-A college student to living in a van and shooting up drugs every day.
Niki, eight months pregnant, lives in a van and shoots up heroin five or six times a day.
Amber Hilberling, a young woman accused of the murder of her husband, is found dead in her prison cell.
Megyn Kelly (The Kelly File (2013); book, "Settle for More") discusses Donald Trump and Roger Ailes.
Amanda says she was forced to have sex with both of her parents, from age 11 to 13; her mother says her husband forced her to partake in the exploitation of their daughter.
Amanda's father discusses sexually abusing her; she says her life spun out of control and she developed an alter ego.
Actress Shelley Duvall (The Shining (1980)) leads a challenging, isolated life.
Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor asks Dr. Phil for help placing her in a long-term facility and for a platform to tell her story to destigmatize mental illness.
A college student's father and stepmother accuse her boyfriend of emotionally and verbally abusing her and blame him for her suicide.
Sixteen-year-old dropout Brittney spends her days hanging out, drinking and smoking marijuana, while working on her career as a YouTube star.
Family members say "raging alcoholic" Lisa terrorizes her elderly parents; stealing her 90-year-old father's cancer medication, and assaulting him.
Jerry says he has spent more than $3,000,000 to save his son's life from an extreme addiction to heroin and crack; Dr. Phil shows Jerry's wife and daughter video footage of him buying drugs for his son and allowing him to use in front of him.
Linda believes that her sister, a retiree, is being catfished by a guy who claims he is in Cairo, Egypt, and instantly started asking her for money.
Teen Corryn has become so obsessed with her on-again, off-again boyfriend that she calls him hundreds of times a day, breaks into his house and hides behind the bushes to watch his every move; the teens' parents want an end to the relationship.
Debbie, who lost 300 pounds in two years, has low self-esteem and a controlling, jealous fiancé.
Drug-addicted mom Carrie admits that she drives her daughter while under the influence and has used heroin in her daughter's school bathroom.
Bill and Jen say their 16- and 18-year-old daughters make their lives a living hell with violent outbursts, joyriding, taking drugs, drinking, shoplifting and calling police to make false accusations of domestic abuse.
Emotions and tempers run high, as Bill and Jen have to make a difficult decision about their violent teen daughters' futures.
Bekah says she removed her mother from her children's lives because she is mentally unstable, sinful, and she even discharged a firearm in her own home.
Shaela's parents say she has exhibited some very strange behavior, after eating a hamburger and getting a mysterious illness, and she has lost her job, house and family.
Three brothers say their mother abandoned them as children, leaving them to float from home to home for most of their young lives, while she moved away and started a new family.
Susan says her son has been arrested 15 times and that she spent over $100,000 bailing him out; Raquel becomes fed up with her brother and mother's behavior.
Ana Estevez talks about the death of her son, Piqui, and shares her thoughts about his father, who confessed to murdering him.
Margaret's husband demands that she choose between him and her afflicted 22-old-year son, Tommy; Tommy's biological father says his son is disturbed and unhappy.
Actress Jan Broberg claims that she was abducted twice, when she was 12 and 14 years old, by close family friend, Robert Berchtold.
Dr. Phil speaks to survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Susan claims her son is a lazy, unemployed, violent moocher who refuses to support himself or his 4-month-old son.
Dakota claims to be a rebel who has no respect for authority; her mother, Cydney, claims she cannot control Dakota and has given up disciplining her.
Stacey and Dan claim their 18-year-old daughter, Taylor, verbally, mentally and physically abuses their entire family; Taylor says it's actually her parents who are abusive.
Angie and Hunter say they have given up on forcing their son to go to school; the teen only wants to play music and video games, and he won't follow any rules, according to his family.
Sherry claims she is absolutely terrified of her 8-year-old "genius" son and his violent outbursts; she blames her son's behavior on his father, Todd.
David says his young-adult daughter has violent rages, refuses to take her medication, uses illegal drugs and regularly drives drunk.
A 21-year-old woman's family may be to blame for her violent, drunken behavior, and something deeper may be going on with her.
Amanda says her ex-husband's mother is a vindictive, manipulative liar; the mother-in-law says Amanda has anger problems, has threatened to set the house on fire and punched her in the head five times.
When Malia was 15, she became involved with a 35-year-old man, who is now in danger of going to prison; her parents say they fear that if they can't get through to her, she will end up dead.
Amber says her husband's sons' mother has Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen syndrome by proxy, over-medicating the children and faking cancer; the boys' mother says she is looking for a way to end the drama with Amber and co-parent in peace.
Jessie says that her stepmother attacked her and her baby, and that her father fears her.
Bree says a young mother dating her father manipulates him and schemes to get her hands on his millions.
Author Dianne Lake tells of joining the Manson family at age 14, why she remained loyal to the leader who abused her, and what she knew about the murders; a woman tells of her baby brother being snatched from his crib in 1986 and her family's search.
Dennis says a woman, he met on a dating website, told him a tale of woe and convinced him to spend more than $200,000 to help her.
YouTube star Trisha deals with her family's disapproval and her "haters", who she says seek to ruin her life by stalking and assaulting her.
Wife and mother Trisha livestreams her entire life; detractors say she live-streams others' personal information, makes negative comments about their appearance and even claims they are convicts; Trisha storms off and collapses.
Jessica and Amber say their ex-stepfather sexually abused them, when they were young girls, and he was convicted and made to register as a sex offender; he maintains his innocence and says their mother brainwashed them into lying.
Steve denies molesting his three stepdaughters and agrees to take a polygraph test; his biological daughter reveals a secret she claims she has been carrying for years.
A dominatrix allows her 14-year-old daughter to skip school, smoke marijuana, drink, and be involved in a polygamous relationship, and they want the girl's straight-laced father to open his mind and accept their lifestyle.
Teen Gabrielle's grandmother says she has spiraled out of control, due to her dominatrix mother's negative influence.
Courtney says her former friend, Amie, has lied about being pregnant three times and losing five babies in total; Amie says she is disgusted by Courtney's false and hateful accusations.
Courtney and Amie come face to face, for the first time in two years, and Amie tries to prove she is telling the truth about losing five babies.
Twenty-eight-year-old DJ's parents and sister Moniece Slaughter (Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood (2014)) say they are concerned for his mental health and fear he poses a serious danger to himself and others.
Michelle, 14, has run away from home numerous times because her parents do not trust her like an adult; her 18-year-old boyfriend says her parents should get used to having him around.
Young teen Michelle's father and boyfriend discuss an altercation that got so heated, her father says he was ready to end her boyfriend's life; the explosive drama continues backstage.
Brandi has not seen her ex-husband or her 11-year-old son, since she was arrested for assault and child endangerment, and her ex says she is an out-of-control alcoholic.
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Brandi and Victor regarding their wild relationship and Brandi's drinking problem, and her mother joins the fray.
Sarah says she is madly in love with a man she has never met, and she plans to abandon her husband and children and move to Africa to be with him; Dr. Phil sends a team to Kenya to investigate and reveals what the team discovers.
Christina, who walked away from her family when her daughter was 13, says her ex let the girl get away with anything and has turned her into a raging, angry monster with low self-esteem.
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Christina, who left her family, when her daughter was 13 years old, but now says she's worried that the young woman is in a toxic situation with the ex-husband she calls narcissistic and his pregnant new wife.
John claims that evil forces possess his 12-year-old son, Jack, which instruct the boy to kill his family; John's ex-wife, Jen, refuses to allow their son to go through an exorcism;
In the Season 17 premiere, an interview with model Tara Lambert, who was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill her husband's former flame, the intended victim and the woman Tara called to set up the hit also speak.
The exclusive interview with Tara Lambert, the former model at the center of a dramatic murder-for-hire plot continues; the undercover police sting video; Tara's ex-husband, Brandon Lambert, speaks out;
Renee and Lee insist their 6-year-old granddaughter is not safe in the care of her severely alcoholic parents, Chris and Jessica; Dr. Phil shows them shocking footage of what his cameras captured during Chris and Jessica's home interviews;
Yachting with her husband, Robert Wagner, and actor Christopher Walken, actress Natalie Wood somehow ends up drowned in the Pacific in the dead of night; her sister, Lana Wood, insists she was murdered;
Inside actress Natalie Wood's final hours; the boat captain says he witnessed a fight between her and her husband, Robert Wagner, and believes she was murdered;
Victoria, 19, says her rage has escalated to the point where she throws and breaks things at home and abuses her fiancé, who says he is still completely in love with her; Jesse Palmer ("DailyMailTV");
Self-help book author Xavier says his adult sons are entitled, violent, and unable to survive without their parents' help; Dr. Phil finds out why he is so afraid of them;
Teen Benjamin Eastman's father describes how he used social media to find his missing son's body and says one of the boy's brutal killers was Benjamin's best friend;
Kristen says her mother and sister have destroyed her relationship with the entire family and brainwashed her daughter into hating her; they accused Kristen of telling her ex-brother-in-law to kill her sister and their children and commit suicide;
Former radio host Charles says he will stop at nothing to save his marriage to Sally -- who is still married to another man -- but she says she is done with Charles and has moved on to a third man, who meets for the first time;
Married couple Pepper and Chris accuse each other of stalking, speeding, physical assault, death threats and firing a gun into the floor during an argument; Dr. Simone and Cecil Whitmore (Bravo's "Married to Medicine");
Taylor wrote in to the show claiming that her mother and siblings are living in filthy, neglectful conditions; her mother says she and Taylor had a good relationship, until an inappropriate Instagram post started them in a downward spiral;
Susan and Taylor get new information that sheds even new light on the living conditions in Susan's former home and the fallout for her young children; Susan says her daughter is a narcissist and needs to move on from the past;
Jake, 16, says he prefers to play video games 24/7 to keep his mind from his family's troubles, including the vicious divorce battle between his parents; they say he is refusing to go to school and is getting violent with the family;
Alex has had numerous arrests, including one for assaulting her sister with a butcher knife; Alex says her family needs to stop harping on old news;
Jennifer says her husband, Billy, is so obsessed with his devices being hacked that he has lost weight and is about to lose the family auto business;
Jennifer says her marriage is in shambles because her family has been targeted by "hackers" for the last year-and-a-year, but her husband says he has evidence that leads back to her phone, proving she is the hacker;
Stephanie searches the streets for her homeless, heroin-addicted boyfriend, whose mother says he was once a rising star musician with a record deal; celebrity stylist Jason Schneidman gives him a haircut and a pep talk;
Her parents say Hannah was a loving, well-behaved daughter, until she got caught stealing at age 15, and since then has lived a life of crime and partying; she says they are too strict and can't understand anything about having fun;
Elizabeth says her evil, manipulative ex-husband, Brian, has brainwashed their son against her; Brian says Elizabeth is unfit and unstable and conspired with two of his ex-girlfriends to file false charges against him;
Valerie says she's worried her 16-year-old daughter is lying, breaking curfew and hanging with the wrong crowd; her daughter claims her mother is a hyperactive stalker;
Heather admits to stealing pain medication from her job; her 16-year-old son begs his mother to get clean;
Theresa claims her 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, has set the house on fire, physically attacked her, and even launched a violent attack on her grandmother;
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Theresa, who claims her 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, is out of control, and that she violently attacked her 67-year-old grandmother;
Lorreine claims her husband, Chance, is a controlling, vindictive narcissist; Chance says it's Lorreine who is always angry and childish; the ugly truth behind designer dogs;
Musician Jimmy and his wife say his 37-year-old daughter has made all sorts of outrageous, untrue accusations against them;
Marcea says her soon-to-be ex-husband paid a ransom, to prevent himself from being exposed as a sugar daddy; Dr. Terry and Heather Dubrow (book, "The Dubrow Diet");
Actor Gary Busey's new autobiography tells of his ups and downs of almost 50 years in Hollywood, surviving a drug overdose, and what he says led to his addiction; Busey's doctor discusses the actor's traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle accident;
What "white privilege" really means and what can be done about it; Rene says she was wrongly accused of using her white privilege to harass a street vendor; legal assistant Quevaugh says he was singled out and viciously attacked at a pizzeria;
LiAnne, who admits she has made some mistakes, says her mother went behind her back and stole custody of her children; her mother says LiAnne was evicted and homeless and is now living with her business partner, who ruined her life;
Jorell and his wife say they fear his father will never stop trying to convince them to return to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and that his father forced him to stay on his "compound" for several days;
Alyssa, an 18-year-old college student, says she is horrified that her mom, Carla, is dating Ron, the man who was convicted of assaulting her baby sister, 12 years ago;
Treasure, 16, is African-American but aligns herself with European-Americans and has racist views against other African-Americans;
Twins Alexandria and Anastasia Duval made headlines when, after a fight, their car plunges off a 200-foot cliff on Hawaii's notorious Hana Highway, killing one twin instantly and leaving the other on trial for her murder;
A marriage counselor may go to prison, after falling for a catfish scam, believing she is romantically involved with an actor from "The Walking Dead", being taken for thousands of dollars, and being put in the middle of a criminal conspiracy;
Frankie and his former wife were accused of scamming would-be adoptive parents out of thousands of dollars, but he now says eight of his children were placed for adoption without his knowledge; he meets one of his adult offspring for the first time;
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Sandy and Ava, who confronted their biological father, Frankie, about what they believe was his involvement in an adoption scam; another of his birth children and an adoptive mother speak out;
Shayna and Zona say their pregnancies have lasted for more than nine months, but no one believes them, and they are looking desperately for answers;
Police say Ashley duped people into believing she was the wife of a firefighter collecting donations for the devastating California wildfires, creating a fantasy husband, fake children, and different identities;
Mindy says she is petrified that her daughter Jourdan's boyfriend, Richard, is going to kill Jourdan due to his physical abuse; Mindy claims Richard admitted to stabbing and even attempting to drown Jourdan;
Kimberly says she had no choice but to obtain guardianship of her then-6-year-old niece because the child's parents were neglectful drug addicts with a history of arrests; they want her back, despite currently living in a homeless shelter;
Amanda's mother and sister say she is an extreme alcoholic who has really died twice and must use a pacemaker because of her drinking; her father lets her live with him because she would otherwise be homeless;
Jeff insists that his wife is a dangerous sex addict who has had affairs with hundreds of men, even though there is not one trace of evidence that she is cheating;
Family members feel that Carly is pushing her child to transition from male to female too soon, and they think the child is complying with her, in order to get her approval; former guests Toni and her transgender daughter, Ash, discuss their journey;
Michele says her adult daughter, Stephanie, drinks to the point of hallucination and almost set their house on fire; Stephanie says her mother falsely accused her of assault, causing her to be arrested and jailed;
Autumn claims she was pushed to the point of insanity, after being stuck in a cycle of abuse for almost two years, when she says, her ex-boyfriend Andre choked her, head-butted her and sexually assaulted;
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with D'Andre, who claims that his abusive relationship with his girlfriend, Autumn, is partly due to what he calls her "messed up" upbringing;
More than two decades after helping to put his father, Dr. John Boyle, behind bars, Collier Landry confronts him about his mother's death;
For the past nine years, Alan's photos from social media have been used as catfish bait to lure women into online relationships; with the help of a private investigator, Alan and his wife were surprised to learn who the catfish was;
Catfish Sarah meets her bait and tells why she has been pretending to be a man online for so long; Alan and his wife say they don't believe she will ever stop;
Bam Margera, who rose to fame as the star of the hit MTV series, "Jackass", reaches out to Dr. Phil with a cry for help; in an emotional interview, he faces his mother and wife;
Dean, who thought he was in direct contact with singer Miranda Lambert, found out he's been scammed by multiple imposters, but says his love for her did not stop; he and his wife say they want to find out what's going on in Dean's head;
Karen went on her daughter's Snapchat, after she found the girl's boyfriend hiding in her closet; Cassandra live-streamed to vent, when she was upset at her children's school; a mom posts a controversial video about her toddler's picky eating habits;
Jessy, 21, says she is consumed with finding social media fame and thinks she is nothing without her followers; former guest Ana returns to admit that she put on an act to gain followers last season on "Dr. Phil"; Nastassia, a fitness influencer;
Brittany and Jeramie have an on-and-off and tumultuous co-parenting relationship, and Jeramie recently reconnected with old classmate Brittney and moved her into his home;
The death of Robert's bride in his multimillion-dollar high-rise apartment was ruled an accident, but Robert now says he murdered her, and it was premeditated; "Daily Wire TV" host Jesse Palmer gives Dr. Phil viewers a sneak peek of some exclusives;
Tiffany tells her mother, Wanda, she ruined her wedding, among many other things, but Wanda says her bipolar disorder is at fault for her earlier actions; Tiffany says she is sick of her mother blaming her mental health issues for her bad behavior;
Tiffany's twin brother accuses their mother, Wanda, of stealing his wife's wedding rings; Tiffany says something to cause her father to jump out of his seat in the audience and make his way up to a chair next to Wanda;
Legal and law-enforcement experts join Dr. Phil to analyze the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos; details from her estranged husband's and his girlfriend's arrest warrants;
An American woman who was savagely attacked, while staying at a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic; a woman insists her husband, one of many American tourists who have passed away while in the Dominican Republic, did not die of natural causes;
After more than two decades, a private investigator says he has new clues and information about what really happened when the car, in which Princess Diana was riding, crashed in a Paris, France tunnel, leading to her tragic death;
The studio audience is filled with some favorite guests from the past 17 seasons; a former guest surprises everyone with an engagement ring and proposal on stage; messages from Oprah Winfrey, the Jonas Brothers, and others;
Brittney, who says she's been ditched without warning eight times, wants to know why she scares every man away; Diane and her mother say Diane's live-in boyfriend ghosted them six months ago;
Ronald, 17, says his $1,000 per month allowance isn't enough for his lavish taste and demands that his mother give him a raise; she works up to 120 hours a week and fears that if she doesn't give in to him, he will resort to getting money illegally;
Victoria says she feels there's something "demonic" in her, and she has passed her demons on to her boyfriend, Thomas; they both get an exorcism, but it only worked on Thomas;
Angela and Nelson ("Ex on the Beach") say they fell in love during the filming of the reality show, but when they left the beach house, their relationship crashed on the rocks; things got so heated between them that Angela stormed off the stage;
After storming off, Angela returns to the stage for the conclusion of the blistering battle between the "Ex on the Beach" co-stars; text messages reveal Nelson has been threatening to release a sex tape he made with her;
Kristina's family say her fiance, Troy, who is 17 years older, is controlling her, brainwashing her, and alienating her from them;
Gen Zers who want to have more social media followers and become "relevant"; a young woman engages in controversial behavior in order to be a social media influencer; young men's illegal stunts gets more than 1 million views in a few hours;
Parents say their 17-year-old daughter, Becky, talks to men online in video-game chat rooms and has fallen in love with a 21-year-old man, whom she has never met in person; Becky says she's in love and plans to move 3,000 miles away, when she turns 18;
Twins Allie and Lexi say managing their social media as well as their growing careers as artists is a full-time job; Mindy says she loves working on her YouTube channel but doesn't know how to combat haters; Hattie, 83, dates men half her age;
Betty says Philip wanted an open marriage, and she met and fell in love with Kevin, so Philip abuses her because her behavior makes him angry; Susan and Brad discuss how they successfully navigated through their divorce, while running their company;
Part 1: Rodney Reed has spent 22 years on death row, and his execution is scheduled for November 20, 2019, but he insists he's innocent and shares with Dr. Phil the evidence he says will clear him; a detective makes a discovery that may change everything;
Part 2: Rodney Reed's attorney, Bryce Benjet, with the Innocence Project, tells Dr. Phil what he thinks really happened to Stacey Stites; detective Kevin Gannon and criminologist Lee Gilbertson say they know who killed her and how the person did it;
Kris says her 29-year-old son, Justin, is a rageaholic, who has been arrested more than 10 times and has received multiple drunk driving offenses; Kris worries about the safety of Justin's two small children;
Melinda and Amy claim their lives have been turned upside down by a social media influencer and political activist named Falona, who they say has subjected them to nine months of cyberbullying and harassment;
Todd Chrisley's daughter, Lindsie, speaks out about her accusation that her father threatened to release a sex tape of her, if she didn't agree to lie for him;
The family of a woman who died during a "Brazilian butt lift" procedure; K Michelle ("Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood") and Dr. Andrew Ordon ("The Doctors") help a woman who has medical issues, after black-market butt injections;
Taylor says she drinks hard liquor every weekend, until she "feels it", smokes marijuana and her e-cigarette every day; her older sister Madison says Taylor yells at her, punches her, shoves her, and has even threatened her with a knife;
Kayla says her sister, Alicia, is a master manipulator who lies, steals, faked cancer, and may have been a prostitute; Alicia denies her sister's accusations and says her entire family has made her the black sheep;
After a breakup, formerly successful Jess lost all coping skills and has been lying in bed at his mother's home; Robert spent most of his 20s incarcerated, but he wants his mother to know that he's not a bad guy and he has changed;
Amanda's at-home DNA test led to the discovery of three new sisters and a different dad; all four sisters and their shared biological father come together to see if they have a deeper connection than simple genetics;
A superior court judge loses his job, after giving no jail time to a man who strangled a woman unconscious and threatened to kill her; a rape victim's mother speaks out about how her daughter's rapist walked out of court with no jail time;
Laura says her daughter Rebecca, 19, dropped out of college and left her job to spend 24/7 with her aggressive boyfriend, Dominick, who blames a lesion on his brain for his anger and rage;
Bree's 11-year-old son is extremely violent, ran away from home, and threatened to kill her and a student at his school; Dr. Phil is concerned about the boy returning home with Bree;
Monique and Sunjay say their 23-year-old daughter has an obsession with hoarding hair, refuses to bathe, couch surfs with strangers she meets online, has fits of rage, and stabbed her father in the leg;
Shane's alcohol addiction has caused him to injure himself to the point where his entire face turned black-and-blue, and his friend Opie fears that he is living on borrowed time;
Tamara insists she loves Adderall and all of the "magical" things it is doing for her life, while her husband, Steve, says she is dangerously abusing the drug;
Linda thinks her daughter Holly's two online fiances are in it for the green cards; one of the men appears on the show, and Dr. Phil reveals what a private investigator discovered about his past;
Holly's other online fiance comes to the show, and the two men meet for the first time; Holly reveals a secret she's been keeping from both of them; Dr. Phil tells her whether he is OK with her marrying one of them or if they just want green cards;
Mama's boy Chas, 17, faces five felony charges, after escaping police custody and causing an eight-hour manhunt; his father says he tries to discipline him, but the boy's mother always shuts him down;
An interview with the Ukrainian orphan whose adoptive parents have been accused of abandoning her, when she was just 8 years old; they say Natalia, who has a form of dwarfism, is really a sociopathic adult posing as a child, who tried to kill them;
Nate was shocked after returning home to find his mother, 52, looking like a frail old woman due to an opioid addiction; she told Dr. Phil's producers she wants to get help for her "medical issues" but is not drug-addicted;
Jennifer believes she and Russian President Vladmir Putin are head-over-heel in love, and she's choosing to be homeless because he will be picking her up soon; her children say she is mentally ill and thinks she has influenced world events;
Miranda says her mother Cathy is controlling, manic and always nagging her; Cathy says she has no choice, because her 22-year-old daughter is living in her home, fighting, screaming, drinking, and on prescription drugs;
Bobby and Renna say their son, Cameron, was a local hero in their small town, until injuries, surgeries, and pain pills destroyed his athletic career, and now he is a heroin-addicted criminal; the parents are not on the same page on how to save him;
Juan Rodriguez was supposed to drop off his 1-year-old twins at daycare, but forgot them in a hot car, while he was at work, causing their deaths; the twins' mother explains why she is standing by her husband and reveals what she wants other parents to learn;
Maribeth and John say their 15-year-old daughter, Marie, has become distant and angry and has started running away and committing crimes; the last time she returned, she said she was pregnant;
Fifteen-year-old Marie, who has told her parents that she is pregnant after running away three times, says she knows who her baby's father is and has a plan, then takes a pregnancy test so that everyone can determine what her next step should be;
Chelsea has been writing to Dr. Phil for years because, she says, her sister Amy left the family, started calling herself "Mother God", claims to do surgery with her hands and talks to dead people, and is so far gone, she's already lost to her family;
Amy says that she is "Mother God" and that she can heal the world with her group, Love Has Won; her sister Chelsea states that Amy is a brainwashed "cult leader", who abandoned her family years ago and is putting other people's lives at risk;
The term "Karen" and the people to whom it is ascribed: they are typically white, middle class, entitled, aggressive or racist women; the viral video subjects get into a heated argument; an anti-mask rally; whether the term is misogynistic;
Four years ago, Eric was the self-proclaimed "fat guy" weighing in at 560 pounds, and was supposed to bike across America to lose weight; critics said he was a scammer, and he never finished his journey; now, pushing 700 pounds, he blames Dr. Phil;
Parents, teachers, and doctors try to navigate the onslaught of information to keep children safe from COVID-19; some parents desperately seek a return to school, work, and normalcy, while others say the risks of in-person classes outweigh the rewards.
Jawanna blames her alcoholism on her mother, Tracy, and her traumatic childhood; Tracy says that Jawanna is out of control and becomes argumentative, violent, and in trouble with the law, when she is drunk;
Joy says that for the past year, her sixteen-year-old son, Andrew, has been terrorizing his twin brother and oldest sister, with the goal of becoming a famous TikTok prankster; he has been expelled from school twice, and the police now know him by name;
Jacob Anderson, 27, cannot or will not do anything for himself; his parents, Susan and Randy, fear that they will have to put off their plans of retirement and of selling their home, in order to take care of him for the rest of their lives;
Janet's online family has not been face-to-face for years, but they come together to confront her about their childhoods filled with different moves, men, and disappointments, to see if she will take accountability for the damage they say that she's done;
Black people, falsely accused of crimes, meet a white journalist, who says the Black Lives Matter movement is a terrorist hate group;
Megan says her 5-year-old son's father, Andy, falsely painted her to the judge as an unfit, unstable drug addict, and they have allowed her to see her son only once in the past three months; Andy and his fiancee say Megan's sob story is fabricated;
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Megan, who claims that her ex-boyfriend Andy has used the court system to make it impossible for her to be a mom to their 5-year-old son;
Gen Zers have been inundated by tragedies in the news and are living in the middle of a pandemic, worried about online schooling, job freezes, and the rumored threat of a global recession, but still believe they can make an impact through activism;
Jennifer and David say that their 12-year-old daughter assaults them, destroys their property, lies about finishing her homework, and suddenly leaves in the middle of a family activity; the girl says she has taught her parents not to have any rules at all;
Suzanne Morchew vanished near her Colorado home on Mother's Day, 2020; her distraught brother tells of finding evidence that may solve her disappearance;
Desiree says her daughter, Adrienne, has trashed her house and bullied the family for years; Adrienne says her mother has always put men and alcohol before her children, so she has had to become the protector of the family; sister Erica wants peace;
Crystal's parents say her home is such a health hazard that it needs to be burned to the ground, and they are ready to call CPS to protect their 12-year-old grandson; Crystal tells all about her extensive childhood trauma;
Stacy has allowed her 33-year-old son, Ben, to live with her, rent-free for two years, while he lies by the pool and does nothing to contribute around the house; her husband has moved out and refuses to come home until she kicks out his stepson;
Ryan's family bring video evidence to show Dr. Phil the horrifying and embarrassing behaviors that they say they've had to live with for years; Dr. Phil confronts Ryan about his drinking and disrespectful attitude;
For four years, Shannon has been raising her two young grandchildren, while her daughter, Ginger, has been running the streets, drinking, doing drugs, and selling her body for money;
In May 2020, Melissa left her family without warning and flew 2,000 miles across the country; she says she's finally ready to reveal why, and feels only Dr. Phil can help her;
Dr. Phil continues his discussion with Melissa's parents; Melissa confronts her family and reveals the dark and shocking secret that she's been keeping;
Stacy says that she is continually haunted by the day that she was shot by her ex-boyfriend; Brienna shares her story of survival, after having being attacked by her ex-boyfriend; and a woman who had fatally stabbed her estranged stepfather;
Beth says her pregnant stepdaughter, Teresa, has been using heroin for the past 10 years; Teresa's father admits that he enables his daughter's drug habit;
Holly's mother, Linda, says Holly hasn't been the same since becoming engage; she describes Holly as fat, lazy, and depressed;
Joni disapproves of her 49-year-old father having a committed relationship and a baby with her friend Gina, a 23-year-old woman, and shares her dislike for his newfound romance on TikTok;
Casey has been married 10 times, and none of the marriages have worked out; at 56, she is still looking for the perfect match and ready for Dr. Phil to get real with her, so she can find out what's gone wrong;
Dr. Phil follows up with some of his favorite guests to see if they were able to turn their lives around, after talking with him; is it possible that out-of-control teen got on the right path; has "hoarding couple" cleaned up their house;
Twenty-four-year-old JT and his twenty-year-old brother, Jacob, say that they would like to move out of their mother's home and have independent lives, but they feel bullied by her into staying at home and taking care of her; she says they constantly smoke marijuana and disrespects her;
Derek and Nancy Hayson were found brutally murdered in 1986; their daughter's boyfriend, German diplomat's son Jens Seeling, confessed, then recanted, and went to prison; Dr. Phil gets his first American interview; Dr. Phil hears from Rodney Reed;
Thirty years after an intense police raid shut down The Zion Society, some of its victims tell their stories of surviving the religious cult, that sexually abused them as children and controlled their lives;
Brittany says she and her identical twin sister, Erica, both battled a severe alcohol addiction; Brittany says she is now sober, but Erica has continued her addiction; Erica is lucky to be alive, after 30 hospitalizations and 14 comas from drinking alcohol, cleaning supplies, and bug sprays, and she was recently committed to a psychiatric ward, after she was found incoherent from drinking hand sanitizers;
Dr. Phil visits two animal rescues in Austin, Texas, where his upcoming series, "That Animal Rescue Show", was filmed; a 19-year-old social media influencer and college student, who is burning out, visits the farm; a formerly homeless woman's cows;
Masseur Tarek says that he is the victim of false sexual accusations that have destroyed his life and career; one of his reported victims tells her story; Dr. Phil quizzes him on bizarre claims, including a mysterious identical twin and a false death;
In the second part of this story, Dr. Phil continues to investigate claims that Tarek sexually assaulted women during massages; human behavior experts analyze his body language to see if there are any clues to whether the accusations are true; a polygraph examiner reveals test results;
Tiffany and Walker say that their mother, Shari, hits the casino the moment her paycheck drops into her bank account and is nearly $90,000 in debt.
Dustin says his marriage to Amethyst is in trouble, and his 15-year-old stepdaughter, Kyrah, is part of the problem; the girl says that she wants out of the house so badly that she has run away nine times;
Cameron, 21, wants to control the anger that has stopped him from doing anything with his life; a psychiatrist performs brain scans to determine if a childhood traumatic brain injury had lasting effects;
Piers Morgan's book, "Wake Up", is about America's divided society; a phone conversation Morgan had with President Donald Trump; celebrities who have been "canceled" in 2020; tone deaf mistakes of the rich and famous; keeping emotional health in check;
Dr. Phil and his guests discuss the cancel culture: the way a large group of people can turn on and seek to dismantle the character, career, and sometimes life, of a person who says or does something that doesn't align the group world view;
McKinley, 18, says her father, Cory, is a violent, dangerous "psychopath", who physically abused her and her mother and went to jail for two counts of sexual battery of another minor; Cory says his ex-wife brainwashed McKinley with "bogus charges";
McKinley, 18, confronts her father, Cory, for being "abusive" throughout her childhood and for being a "pedophile", claims that he adamantly denies; Dr. Phil continues to question him about an incident that led to his arrest for sexual battery 10 years ago;
Tracy says her 30-year-old son, Logan, has gone from a productive computer science engineer to a shell of a human being over the past year, and she needs Dr. Phil to intervene and find out why his motivation has disappeared and how he can get back on track;
Brian was paralyzed from the knees down in a work accident, and his wife, Natalie, says that he has stopped trying to live life, damaging his relationship with his family; he says that they don't understand what he is going through and he is in too much pain to move;
David says he met a woman named Maria online, and that she has an inheritance of $10 million; his daughter Shelby says her relationship with him is broken, and she wishes he would spend more time with her, rather than chasing a woman who she fears doesn't exist;
David says that although he has never met Maria, his online girlfriend, he has paid $25,000 to their lawyer so she can get her $10 million inheritance; Dr. Phil investigates to find out if she is a real person or if David is part of an online catfish scam;
Nino and his fiancee say his mom, Anna, is being scammed by her online boyfriend, Sammie Lee Strong, to whom she has sent more than $120,000.
Part 2. Dr. Phil continues to search for Anna's online boyfriend and finds the man from the photo, then meets two women who say the man isn't telling the entire truth --- making it a catfish story unlike any story that Dr. Phil has ever covered;
A woman, who is a catfish herself, explains to Anna that she has two choice: walk away now or lose everything she has; an update from a past guest and fan favorite, who can relate to this situation all too well;
The contentious 2020 presidential election has shown that there's a clear divide in America; families face the dilemma of how not to argue with their own spouses, children, and parents about politics; guests are families who argue over President Donald Trump;
Authorities in Cancun, Mexico, say that vacationer Elijah Snow's death was an accident, but in an exclusive interview, wife Janie reveals the evidence she says suggests that he was brutally killed;
Tonia Bales (podcast "The First Wife: John Meehan's Reign of Terror") is joined by his second wife, Debra Newell (book "Surviving Dirty John: My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder") and her daughter Terra Newell, who fatally stabbed him in self-defense;
Fran says that she's in love with a man that she has never met and hopes to prove to everyone that not only is their love real, but that he is real, too; her siblings say that he is only in the "relationship" for the money --- Fran has sent him over $30,000;
When Joanna posted an emotional video online about uncovering her husband James' infidelity, she never imagined it would go viral; he says that he is willing to do anything to avoid losing his family; his former hairstylist creates more drama;
Jenaye meets the woman with whom her husband, James, cheated on their fifth wedding anniversary; Chelsey says that she believes that she has done nothing wrong -- and that she, too, is a victim;
In July, 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito sets off from Florida, on a cross-country van trip with her fiance Brian Laundrie, but two months later, he returned alone; her desperate father, Joe Petito, pleads for answers about the missing young woman;
Brian "The Bull" Barbosa, the two-time interim World Middleweight boxing champion, admits that there is something seriously wrong with his brain; Dr. Phil reveals the results of a state of the art brain scan that he set up for Brian to take;
What 22-year-old "Van Life" blogger Gabby Petito's final videos reveal about what might have happened to her; police release body cam footage of distraught Gabby crying about an altercation, with her fiance, in the days before she disappeared;
Dustin and his family say that he's tried everything to recover from his eating disorder, but nothing has worked;
Dr. Phil meets with airline passengers, who filmed what became viral videos of physical altercations, verbal abuse, and "entitled" behavior; two people, who were kicked off of their flights, have blame their flight attendants' "abuse of power";
Megan and Brandy say that their 69-year-old grandmother, Gail, is being catfished by a scammer, who is posing as musical artist Post Malone, and they are worried for her safety and mental health; Gail wants to prove that the relationship is real;
Sabrina says that she has a relentless, obsessed stalker, who monitors her every move -- her boyfriend of six years, Harold; he says that he has no choice but to stalk her because she's become "untrustworthy" ever since her "Brazilian butt-lift" surgery;
Emily says that her childhood was full of dysfunction because her mother, Linda, lived a double life as a suburban housewife and a drug addicted "madam", who oversaw two brothels that serviced rich and powerful men;
Samantha says that her mini gastric bypass surgery in Tijuana, Mexico went terribly wrong, and when she wanted to leave the hospital, her husband, Josh, stood by and would not help her leave --- and now her fears are tearing apart her already fractured family;
Former guest Lydia, 80, aka "Glamma", meets three wealthy eligible bachelors, who each take her on a date; Annie, 82, is a social media influencer with more than 250,000 followers; Ernestine, an 85-year-old bodybuilder, trains clients half each age;
Dr. Phil gives self-help advice and strategies for a healthy life;
Gabby Petito's parents are all interviewed together, for the first time, since the 22-year-old "Van Life" vlogger's body was discovered in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, as the manhunt for her fiance, Brian Laundrie, continues nationwide;
Gabby Petito's parents tell where they believe that Brian Laundrie may be hiding and what they hope happens to him, if he was involved in Gabby's death; their reaction to the latest developments in their daughter's case;
Dr. Phil welcomes back previous guest Heather and her daughter, Marissa, who is rebelling in dangerous ways, and reads a chilling text exchange, in which Marissa says that she has attempted to kill her mother;
Susan says that her daughter, Emma, has always had a troubled life of drugs and abuse and that things took a turn for the worse, when Emma's fiance died of an overdose, leaving her alone with her two children;
A jury convicted Chris of murdering his wife and three young children, and he is now serving four life sentences; his parents, Gail and Pierre, sit down for their first TV interview with Dr. Phil to tell him why they believe that their son is innocent;
Chris Vaughn's parents say that they believe that he is innocent of committing the murders of their three grandchildren and daughter-in-law; a private investigator hopes to get him out of prison; the attorney who fought to put him behind bars;
Michelle says that her 9-year-old son, Raymond, has screamed, cursed, and punched others, since the age of 3 --- and recently gave his grandmother a black eye; family members want to know if his issues are real or if he's just choosing to act out;
Carlea says that her brother, Jay, is an egotistical, untruthful narcissist who physically abused his baby mama, Cassie, and that her nephew deserves a better father;
On August 13, 2019, 37-year-old Andrea Knabel, an outgoing and devoted mother of two, who had volunteered for a group that helps find missing people, disappeared; it turns out that Andrea was hiding several secrets about her risky behavior;
Keira says that when she was 15, her mother, Karen, chose to move across the state to be with her husband, James, leaving Keira behind and forcing Keira into foster care; a few years ago, he called her a racial slur, and her mother still chose his side;
Keira and her stepfather, James, face off after discussing an argument they had two years ago that led to James calling Keira a racial slur; James also admits to hitting Keira when she was a child; Keira's mother returns to the stage without her;
Heather's son, Trenton, 14, was expelled from school, for four months, after he was caught on camera destroying school property and stealing a sign; she and her fiance, Michael, say that Trenton's behavior has started to tear apart their relationship;
Fallon was rejected by a party bus, heading to a nightclub, because of her appearance; a video went viral, after Korisa fell into an icy lake; Eric wants Taylor to work out with him and eat healthier; rock star Nikki Sixx (memoir "The First 21");
Dr. Phil interviews death row inmate Richard Glossip, 58, who says that he was wrongfully accused of the murder of Barry Van Treese in January, 1997; the CEO of Lava Media and the founding member of The Innocence Project, Jason Plor is interviewed;
Tom says that Teaka is cheating on him with his friends, neighbors, co-workers, and even the mailman; Teaka swears that she's never cheated on Tom and claims that he has turned her into a prisoner in their home;
Inspirational updates on memorable guests and highlights of some of the best moments of the past 20 seasons;
Dr. Phil catches up with memorable guests: a daughter who faked 10 pregnancies; an extremely violent 12-year-old; a former all-star athlete turned heroin addict;
Brittany claims that her dad, Charlie, is being scammed by his online fiancee; Charlie says that he gave his fiancee over $25,000 and that she hasn't paid him back, despite her promises to do so;
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Brittany, who says that her dad is being scammed by his fiancee;
Danielle, 34, has had an extreme case of anorexia nervosa and bulimia for 20 years and has posed as a nutrition counselor advising others online on how to lose weight;
Sandi, 60, says that she will soon be flying to Nigeria to marry her 22-year-old soul mate;
Sandi's Nigerian fiance, Peter, 22, sits down to talk with Dr. Phil via satellite;
YouTuber Agent Sebastian, who runs a page where he posts hundreds of explosive videos of himself in parking lots, apprehending shoppers who do not return their carts to the corrals, meets one of his so-called victims; a suicide after a radio prank;
Guests say that they were targeted and manipulated out of tens of thousands of dollars by a woman, who has been accused of posing as various people to extort individuals all over the world; Dr. Phil sends a news crew to where it is believed she lives;
Christine says that her and Tom's divorce has affected all of her kids, including the quadruplets; two daughters say that they manage their anger through violence, eating disorders, and smoking weed; Tom says that his kids have destroyed his house;
Tom and Christine's daughters say that their family is completely toxic, and that their dad is the reason for the family trauma because he's a sociopath, abusive, and an alcoholic; author Mitch Albom (book, "The Stranger in the Lifeboat");
More than 30 years ago, undercover detective Dennis Vustenhoff was murdered by a bomb that had been planted under his unmarked police car; a shocking twist in the case: his family say that they know who killed him --- and they want justice;
Five-year-old Summer Wells vanishes from her home in rural Tennessee; online bullies accuse her parents, Don and Candace, of having something to do with her disappearance; the parents sit down with body language experts in order to clear their names;
Missing 5-year-old Summer Wells' parents, Don and Candice, speak out in their exclusive first national TV interview; Dr. Phil digs deeper into the story to learn if there is any new information that might help solve the mystery of her disappearance;
Ariyanna says that her mother, Cornelia, locked her in the attic, abandoned her, and once, even resorted to water boarding; Cornelia says that Ariyanna is lying about some of her accusations and exaggerating about others;
Nancy says that despite the evidence that her son and daughter-in-law have shown her, she is adamant that she is not being scammed by the man with whom she is having an online relationship;
Nancy and her son, Darcy, speak face to face for the first time in over a year, and Darcy has been hiding a secret about his mother's online boyfriend, "Shaun"; updates from past guests who can relate to Nancy's story;
Astroworld, Travis Scott's Houston festival, is a mass casualty event leaving people dead, children clinging to life, and attendees traumatized; what really happened; who is to blame; attendees reveal the horror they saw, and families file lawsuits;
Cassie's daughter Britney helps Dr. Phil to get Cassie to see the real problem in the family;
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, women are caught at the center of legal confusion because of often vague state laws; a woman and her partner reveal what she had to do to get a legal abortion;
Violent hate crimes are committed in public; a family say that they are traumatized, after a recent incident that they had at a fast food drive-thru, involving a stranger who mocked them, using a fake Asian accent and that the police ignored their complaint;
A Jewish man says that a gang assaulted him on the street in New York City, while shouting anti-Semitic slurs; Rabbi Arych Cohen and a former white supremacist share insight; why police don't immediately assume that an incident is a hate crime;
The mother of a child killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas; experts tell how they think that society can prevent mass shootings;
A woman's 11-old-daughter was using he/him/they pronouns and also a different name, while at school for months, before it was brought to her attention, and she now questions whether the school faculty were encouraging the child's transition;
Credit card advice, grocery ideas, and coupon tricks could save people thousands of dollars; what is happening with the economy; budgeting advice for a mother of eight;
Pledging a fraternity can mean a lot of drinking, and many young men have died of alcohol poisoning as a result; Danny Santulli had a blood alcohol content of six times the legal limit and severe brain damage; surveillance video of what happened to him;
Former fraternity brothers have been sentenced for their part in the alcohol poisoning death of 20-year-old Stone Feitz, one of the most prominent faces of the national epidemic; his family members, fellow pledges, and his girlfriend give insight;
Some people feel that they can do anything to anyone, that rules just don't apply to them, and if they don't like something, they have the right to intimidate, verbally abuse, or even physically assault strangers;
Federal student loan borrowers' automatic forgiveness kicks off a nationwide debate; Dr. Phil speaks with people on both sides of the issue;
Parents and coaches debate about who is to blame for child athletes' entitled behavior; a referee who wrote an emotional email to parents informing them that he was quitting; a former All-American quarterback talks about the dark side of college sports;
Women say that they were sexually assaulted by college athletes and that there is a double standard when it comes to athletes accused versus typical students; attorneys says that athletes are the victims and that their fame makes them easy targets for false accusations;
Street drugs and counterfeit prescription pills are laced with Fentanyl, a deadly synthetic copioid; Feliz lost his sister to a mass Fentanyl poisoning that killed five adults; John says that he watched both his sons overdose in his home;
Quiet quitting has become a movement by people of all ages; an employment and labor attorney, a young man who says that he is currently quiet quitting, and business owners discuss; behind the scenes of the new television show, "So Help Me Todd";
A woman says that she had received death threats for wearing a dress from another culture; another woman says that she was called out for displaying a Japanese anime character; a third woman says that people need to stop stealing other cultures' foods and calling them their own;
Lexi and Will say that they've found freedom in letting go of the need to control their weight and, instead, accepting themselves as they are; YouTube personality John Glaudo says that he once believed in the body positivity movement, until it almost killed him;
A woman says that, after years of workplace bullying, she eventually quit her job; a man says that his workplace bully led him to contemplate taking his own life; a woman says that she was bullied, when she worked for a multinational financial services company;
Whether transgender athletes should compete against those of the gender with which they identify or those who share the gender that they had at birth; Riley Gaines, who competed against Lia Thomas, gives her perspective; what the science says;
"Canceling" people from having a platform or career for sharing their opinion; a former police officer says that he was fired, after making a TikTok video; a political commentator recently had to be protected, by state police, from student protesters;
Student Alejandro says that administrators at his community college violated his free speech rights; public figures fight back against cancel culture; a list of terms that are now reportedly off-limits;
Treating drug abuse like a medical issue and providing addicts with paraphernalia, such as clean needles in a safe space, and free housing regardless of whether or not they test positive for drugs; open drug use and homelessness get out of control;
Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill patients in some states to self-administer prescribed medication to die with dignity; many Americans fly internationally to use medical aid in dying for non-terminal illnesses;
Baby Boomers believe that the younger generation is entitled and sits on social media all day, while the Gen Zs blame Baby Boomers for the current state of the environment and of the economy; how all that may be affecting their mental health;
Antoinette's 13-year-old daughter, Muffin, took her own life, after being bullied by children at her school and online;
Cheryl and Hunter's 16-year-old daughter, McKenna, took her own life, after being bullied by four girls she thought were her friends;
Florida's "Parents Rights in Education" law, two educators who says that they pulled their trans daughter out of a public school, after the school failed to teach transgender education in kindergarten; Rep; Joe Harding (R-Florida); professor Jody Armour;
How supply shortages of everything, from airline pilots to baby formulas, are impacting people; how to overcome hard times; money saving tips on travel and vacationing; economist Victor Claar;
Dr. Phil mediates a discussion about whether the legalization of marijuana is doing more harm than good; a woman who claims that she lost her teenage son due to the legalization of marijuana;
Extortionists blackmail children and college students into providing them money; images of a sexual nature or sexual favors by threatening to release their graphic information, videos, and photos online; a teen who was sextorted took her own life;
Extortionists manipulate young people into sending compromising images and threaten to distribute them if they don't provide more images, sexual favors, or money; parents say their teens died by suicide, after being sextorted;
Nancy says that she was 10 weeks pregnant when the fetus, she was carrying, was diagnosed with a fatal condition, and she tried to have an abortion, but doctors denied her, because abortions are banned in her state; pro-life and pro-choice activists debate;
Women and men tell of being financially scammed, sexually assaulted, and having their lives threatened by people who they met on dating apps; Dr. Phil points out red flags to notice;
Whether or not dressing in a highly revealing way is empowering to women; a mother says that she is concerned about her 19-year-old daughter's safety, due to what she wears;
Money saving and money making advice to help viewers learn how to take control of their finances, during periods of inflation; using money to make money; money saving hacks; freebie secrets; setting up the next generation for financial success;
The teacher shortage; the "Great Resignation" of teachers; low student standards; teacher frustrations; new laws in some states to find more teachers; possible solutions to the country's falling student performance in math, science, and reading;
Parents' publicizing sensitive content and oversharing about children on the internet may be an invasion of children's privacy, dangerous, and harmful to the relationship between parent and child; a social media family with millions of followers;
America is very divided: people feel very angry, very isolated and very victimized, and politicians just seem to keep stoking the fire; political strategist and pollster Dr. Frank Luntz discusses talking with people who don't share one's beliefs;
Jasmine recorded and posted a video of a confrontation that she had with an angry woman at a restaurant; Lilly says that she found out that she was the subject of a cruel video post that someone had secretly filmed of her, while sitting on a train;
Even the most well-intentioned laws can backfire and lead to absurd or unjust outcomes; guests share what they consider outrageous miscarriages of justice involving a car accident, a rape, and a murder that ruined lives; those that are trying to change laws;
Philippa's undiagnosed lump turns into stage 4 breast cancer; a woman sees 30 doctors in five years for migraines, before she got a diagnosis; a 27-year-old woman goes from a competitive runner to using a wheelchair and needing open heart surgery;
Kimberly and Angel tell of losing their 10-year-old daughter, Annemarie, to a school shooter; Annemarie's best friend, Kholie, was in the classroom, when the gunman entered their room; Kholie's parents reveal what she had told them had happened for 77 minutes;
Young survivors and parents of victims of school shooters at Uvalde Elementary and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School;
The coupon queen tells exactly how to get necessities for nearly nothing and explains what shrinkflation is; a food prepper tells how to prepare for shortages and save big on food; a young economist reassures people that inflation is temporary;
Angry family members of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims say that Netflix's "Dahmer -- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story", re-traumatized them and romanticized the notorious serial killer; two men say that they were tortured and terrorized by Dahmer and survived;
Victims and survivors of Jeffrey Dahmer say that they want people to see him for who he really was -- not the glamorized TV version; a never before aired interview with Dahmer's father and stepmother sheds light on the monster behind the man;
What may have made Jeffrey Dahmer a serial killer; chilling home videos of him as a little boy may show an innocent child before he became evil, or the signs may have been already there; his parents reveal the red flags they say they missed;
Millions of people have had their most personal and private images posted online without their consent, often with their real names and identifying information; a mother works to shut down a revenge porn site that hosted her daughter's stolen images;
