I can’t help but think of all the guests that have appeared on Dr. Phil McGraw’s syndicated talk show and had to endure the host shouting his trademark line, “What are you thinking?” in their faces… on national TV.
Today those same people are probably wondering how Dr. Phil feels to be on the other side of the firing squad.
“What were you thinking?”
It’s a question Britney Spears’s family is demanding Dr. Phil answer in regards to making public statements and (in their opinion) a mockery of the singer’s questionable mental state.
The truth about Dr. Phil’s involvement with the popwreck finally came to light Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show when Brit’s mother’s business manager ripped on the TV shrink.
Lou Taylor, a woman who claims to be the Spears’ family spokesperson, told viewers that Dr. Phil violated the family’s trust by running his mouth to various news organizations following his visit to the derailed singer during her forced hospital stay late last week.
After his visit, McGraw sent out his own press release saying: “My meeting with Britney and some of her family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of medical and psychological intervention … ”
Call it the nail in the coffin. According to Taylor, Brit’s parents were steaming when they caught wind that their so-called “friend of the family” sold them out.
“What’s wrong with Dr. Phil’s statement,” said Taylor, “is that he made a statement. The family, basically, extended an invitation of trust for him to come in as a resource to support them, not to go out and make public statements.”
Taylor also set the record straight regarding Dr. Phil’s public statements (a.k.a. press tour) regarding the family’s plan to participate in a show devoted entirely to Britney’s mental problems.
“It was decided it would be detrimental to ever do that,” said Taylor, who described McGraw’s request for such a show in the first place to be “self-serving.”
You can add “selfish” and “stupid” to the long list of “s” words being used to describe McGraw’s moves over the last few days, at least according to mental health experts who have been watching Dr. Phil dig a hole for himself by adding to media frenzy surrounding Britney’s hospitalization.
“It’s true people sometimes need to be placed under involuntary mental-health treatment because they can’t take care of themselves,” one veteran psychiatrist told news reporters of the 26-year-old mother of two. “But there’s a difference between being detained involuntarily for psychological treatment and being forced to endure Dr. Phil involuntarily.”
The Spears family spokesperson also noted that McGraw’s big mouth has also “compromised” her mother and sister’s relationship with Britney.
Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time that happened…
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