Update:
Dr. Phil has issued the following statement:
“As was widely reported this weekend, at the request of concerned family members, I visited Britney Spears in the hospital. The details of that visit will, of course, remain private. We had planned to tape a ‘Dr. Phil Now’ show tomorrow, focusing not on the tabloid side of Britney’s latest problems, but instead on the very serious issues surrounding this case. Clearly, it is not just Britney’s family struggling to find a way to protect adult children who cannot be ordered or compelled to seek help. Because the Spears situation is too intense at this time, and out of consideration to the family, I have made the decision not to move forward with the taping at this particular time. Britney and her family are in our prayers and we ask that they be in yours.”
“I want to set the record straight,” Phil said of his Saturday visit with Spears. “I went to see Britney at the request of her family.”
He added, “I talked to [her parents] Lynne, Jamie, and [Britney's brother] Brian, because they were frustrated that she wasn’t going to be held for a longer time.”
Dr. Phil said he became involved Thursday night when he got a phone call from Spears’ distraught mother.
“It was Lynne. Clearly she was very upset. Any parent would be. I was first contacted by her family a year ago, and had maintained a running dialogue for the last year or so.”
-Dr. Phil on The Early Show - earlier today.
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What a fucking douche!
Talk about back-pedalling damage control!
I personally hope this destroys his unethical ass!.
I think Dr. Phil is great and love watching his show. I don’t understand why there are so many haters, actually I do, there are a lot of unstable people who don’t want to change who don’t like his “tell it like it is” approach. Dr. Phil’s “tell it like it is” approach has really helped me a lot in my life when I apply what he says to certain problems I have had, and I would have really liked to see the britney episode. That girl is a train wreck!
he needs to stay out of her and her family business just for the sake of money. i really don’t believe that putting her story on national television about her mental problems are going to get her better. it might just push the girl over the edge. he shouldn’t have been allowed into the room at all. if her mother wanted some intervention she should have been on a plane herself with her daughter. what trips me out about all of this is how vague everyone is about her problems. i mean she has tested clean to all drugs and alcohol many times. so she is a mental case. i can’t believe she is leaving going around to the desert with the paparrazi just chillin. either that or she is plotting a suicide. i tell you what britney if you get this, “don’t kill yourself….you can be fixed…..if you do decide to do something that stupid then make sure that you have no money to give K-fed. make him raise those kids on his own money since he is the ‘model’ father. just like everyone else, he shouldn’t have to live off of your money….no matter what you have done”
I love Dr Phil. Unlike most, I really think he is looking out for her first and foremost. He has grown kids of his own, he know’s how Lynne and Jamie are feeling I would think, and wants to help. Now, I may be the most naive person here, but I really think he was trying to help HER, not himself. HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD TELL HER LIKE IT IS. No one else wants to say a damn word because of who she is. She surrounds herself with people who tell her what she wants to hear, not people who would tell her the truth.
UH-uh, no. There is a whole field of psychology-gestalt- that practices tell it like it is. And you would be surprised just how far someone practicing that field will go to get at the truth.
What he did was unethical. The end does not justify the means when you are talking about behaviour that could a) push Britney away from treatment, b) harm her already fragile state, and c) cause more fear and distrust in the mind of the public for the field of psychology.
She needs someone like that in her life, to tell her like it is, but there is no way that she would go on live television to talk about her problems, when she has never been completly honest in any of her happy, fluffy intereviews over the years.
If this posts twice, I’m sorry. But Kelly, you are right about her going on tv. That I do not agree with at all. And in that regard, I don’t like Dr Phil. He should have never even thought about putting it on tv for all the world to see, when he knows her mental state. But, I think in private he would be able to help her.
Maybe Britney is paranoid about getting older and not looking as good as she did in her teens and early twenties. Maybe she’s also worried that her fame and publicized problems will make it impossible for her to find true love, so she will end up being alone for the rest of her life. These could be other reasons for her irrational behavior.
That’s probably true, but that isn’t her main problem.
LEAVE BRITNEY ALOOOOONE!
oh my gold