‘Dr. Phil’ Guests Given Booze & Drugs Before Appearance!
This one is CRAZY!
By Admin on December 28, 2017
Dr. Phil is, at this stage, kind of an American institution. But, this story seems to call many of his tactics into question.
The Daily Beast reports, “Former guests on Dr. Phil who were battling alcoholism and addiction say they were given alcohol and Xanax before their interviews, and one person said she was even directed by a staff member on the show to find heroin for her detoxing niece. The shocking allegations reported in STAT and the Boston Globe were denied by the show, on which host Phillip McGraw portrays himself as a savior for the addicted. Former Survivor winner Todd Herzog said that he was sober when he arrived at Dr. Phil’s studio but given a bottle of Smirnoff vodka in his dressing room and handed a Xanax after drinking all of it to “calm his nerves.”
The story is continued here.