Dr. Phil - Season 19 (2020)

Liz says she spends 11 to 13 hours every day jogging around her coffee table, until she reaches the equivalent of 50 miles on her activity tracker; musical artist Oil London undergoes 15 procedures to look like Jimin, from the K-pop group, BTS;

Alisha says her 10-year-old son is pushing his family to their limits of tolerance as they live in fear of his next violent outburst; his siblings have to barricade themselves in their rooms at night, and she fears that he will someday end someone's life;

Kalie, Susan, and Gabby raise awareness about a Christian boarding school, where they say they were abused; Lucinda, another former student, defends the work she says that pastor Ronald Williams has done; the founder's son, Ben Williams, speaks out;

Kalie, Susan, and Gabby want to shut down a Christian boarding school they were made to attend as teens, claiming the girls there are at great risk; Lucinda says it was a safe haven for her and many others; a former volunteer staff member weighs in;

Nick says his 41-year-old sister, Jennifer, is a bad parent who prioritizes wild partying over good parenting of her 13-year-old daughter, resulting in a long list of worrying behaviors from the girl, including violence, self-harm, and other incidents;

In May 2012, Mistie, a mom and housewife, made national headlines when she was arrested and convicted of having a sexual relationship with her underage, biological son, whom she did not raise; now out of prison, Mistie tells Dr. Phil her story;

People lose their careers with tweets; a beauty contest winner's crown is removed because of comments she made on social media; a young woman is on her way to stardom with an international modeling career, when transphobic posts derail her dreams;

Brooklyn, 18, says she is sick and tired of her mother butting into her love life and trying to end her relationship with her boyfriend, Eric, just because he has a wife and two children; Eric's wife says that she will fight for her marriage;

Jason says his ex-wife, Tina, refuses to be a parent, while their 16-year-old daughter refuses to talk to him, because he is a disciplinarian; Tina says Jason has put up cameras to watch her and their daughter and listens to their conversations;

Jason and Tina's daughter says he has followed her home from school, had tried to fight with her boyfriend, and had taken pictures of her friends' license plates, and she ended up with a black eye and busted lip, during an argument with him;

A high-school cheerleader attempts to hire "hit men" to kill her parents; her parents speak out about why she wanted them dead; whether she will face decades in prison or be rehabilitated;

Loni says her fiance, Dustin, goes from sweet to furious in a split second, has called her names in front of their child, and often drinks 12 beers a night and 60 over the weekend; Dustin says the problem is that he lives in a state of boredom;

Linda and Chuck say that their 17-year-old son, Mike, refuses to take "no" for an answer, follow their rules, go to school, or grow up; Mike says he's not the one who needs help -- his mother is the one who needs to be smacked in the face with reality;

Ariana's widowed mother quit acting as a parent and started dating and going out, leaving her to raise her destructive, violent younger brothers: one of them killed the family dog, and the other gets strip-searched for weapons at school every day;

Siblings say their 71-year-old retired mortgage-broker mother, Renee, is completely absorbed in her relationship with online scammer, "Thomas Nunez Hughes", to whom she has given hundreds of thousands of dollars;

Children's great-grandparents, Pamela and James Bond, and their mother, Kylla Mann, were arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and for reckless endangerment; Dr. Phil interviews the family about what they say had really happened;

Anita says that, after graduating from NYU, her 24-year-old son, Orrin, announced that he is a mechanized cyborg, who is part of a "collective intelligence" that was sent back in time by "higher beings" to warn humanity of the upcoming apocalypse;

Mary and Michael lost a daughter to an overdose in 2011, and they are worried about history repeating itself; their biggest fear is finding their other daughter, Shayne, dead from using drugs in her home, which is cluttered due to hoarding;

Shayne is ready to confront her family about her drug addiction, and to confront her sister, Shelby, because she feels she is responsible for their other sister's death;

After faking 10 previous pregnancies, Taylor produced a sonogram that convinced her family that she was telling the truth about her latest pregnancy, but after nine months, she told them she miscarried; Dr. Phil investigates and learns the truth;

Kim's mom, Lydia, says she has it all: her dream home, a happy marriage, money for hired help, and her adult daughter, Lori, living in her basement; Kim says she fears that she's going to inherit her mother's overcrowded and messy mansion and her adult sister;

Three siblings say they live in fear of their 25-year-old brother, Ryan, who turns into a monster, destroying whatever is in his path, if he doesn't get what he wants; they and their mother, Erika, give in to his demands to make sure he is kept happy;

A video of Darrell went viral, showing him brutally attacking his girlfriend and dragging her back to his vehicle; his mom says that is not the son she raised; Darrell says he wants to apologize to the world; his girlfriend's sister says he beat her;

Retired Robert says he has five online girlfriends but admits he's never met any of them in person; his ex-wife, Jeremi, says he has lost all of their $1 million savings on day trading and giving money away to these women, who she insists are catfish;

Dr. Phil continues the search to help unravel what's really going on with Robert and the women he thinks he's dating online; the investigation goes across the country to track down and verify information Robert says he's gotten from his girlfriends;

As many as 300 couples across America are believed to have been targeted by an adoption imposter, who finds them online, and tricks them into believing she has a baby for them, only to disappear days or weeks down the line with no explanation;

Dr. Phil meets Gabby, the woman who has victimized as many as 300 couples across America by promising them a baby who does who does not exist; Gabby comes face-to-face with some of her victims;

Liz says that her husband Jim's parenting philosophy is based on intimidation and abuse, and that is what drove their 16-year-old son to drugs; Jim denies her accusations, saying she is a doormat who helped enable the boy's deadly addictions;

Dr. Phil continues to speak with parents Liz and Jim about why each blames the other for their son's drug addiction; Jim faces his daughter, Chloe, and son, Nic;

At 26 years old, David was 600 pounds, then lost 400 pounds in two years, but now the 43-year-old weighs 656 pounds; he says something happened to him, when he was young, that could be the reason he can't keep the weight off;

Haley Burns was 16 years old, when she disappeared from her home; after 399 days, she was found, malnourished and confined behind a gate in the bedroom of 31-year-old Michael Wysolovski, whom she had met online and who she went with willingly;

Dr. Phil meets a family of lawyers torn apart by a dark accusation; Heather claims to have been raped by her father and says that a video of the rape was then sold on the dark web for millions of dollars; her father, her sister Jennifer, and her niece Amanda all say this is a terrible, damaging lie --- one of many Heather has told over the years;

Kathie says that she lives in fear of her 14-year-old son, Nico, who refuses to attend school and has charged thousands of dollars to buy tokens for video games; when she tries to get him to put down the controls, he terrorizes the household;

Cindy's daughter, Cheyenne, is a 24-year-old college student, her primary caretaker, and sole financial supporter; Cheyenne's boyfriend wants to propose but says he doesn't want Cindy ruling their future;

Siblings say that their mother, Sherry, has blown through a $250,000 inheritance in the past 11 months by running up bar tabs with her friends and strangers, buying lavish things, popping non-prescribed pills and washing them down with rum;

Lori Vallow appears not to care that two of her children have disappeared, and she is in Hawaii with her fifth husband, Chad Daybell; four untimely deaths surround Lori and Chad; family members speak to Dr. Phil;

Jessica believed that once she married her Prince Charming, Jerry, she would never have to work as an escort again; 27 years later, she says he is a lying, uncaring psychopath, and she has been raped and abused multiple times by her clients;

Three siblings come together to confront their mother, Traci, who they say is a raging alcoholic who refuses to believe she has a drinking problem; her boyfriend says she just drinks because she is constantly stressed out by her children;

New bail reform takes away judges' power to set bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies; an innocent man takes his own life because he can't afford bail; a drunken driver, who killed someone, is released; Duane 'Dog' Chapman ("Dog the Bounty Hunter");

Wade had a surprise baby with his ex-girlfriend, Margaret; his sister, Jena Leigh, and her mother, Jeanne, say they are now worried about the baby's safety because, they say, the baby's parents have a physically and verbally abusive relationship;

Sharon says that her 15-year-old son Gabe, a childhood cancer survivor, has been in trouble with the law since he got arrested at age 12 and that he is now hanging out with gang members; he says she gets too emotional about everything he does;

Heather says her 14-year-old son, Jason, runs away, refuses to go to school, steals, attacks police officers, has punched her in the face, and was involved in a shooting that led to her eviction; her sister says Jason's behavior is a cry for help;

Tracy Harris was found drowned and possibly strangled in a river in 1990; right before her husband Carl's murder trial, someone very close to him confessed; an interview with Carl and a reunion with his daughter, who thought he killed her mother;

Blake's constant fear of developing schizophrenia is causing nonstop drama and pulling his family apart;

Several medical and health professionals talk about their concerns about the Coronavirus; a survivor and his wife talks about his diagnosis;

A woman says she wants her own fashion empire and is willing to ruin relationships to get it; a 20-year-old quits his job to become a YouTube star; a man says his goal is to be an internet "influencer" and create his own skin care business;

Vicky says that she avoids interacting with her 23-year-old sister, Valerie, because she has full-blown mental breakdowns and angry outbursts almost daily; Valerie says no one understands how debilitating her daily struggle with anxiety is;

Dr. Phil speaks with parents and teens from around the country, answering crucial questions about living and parenting under quarantine;

Dr. Phil offers advice on how to overcome stress and anxiety about the Coronavirus pandemic and develop a healthier and fact-based perspective;

Ava goes viral on TikTok for licking a toilet seat on an airplane, as she heads to spring break festivities; pastor Tony Spell violates an emergency order, banning groups of more than 50 people, by having more that 1,100 people at a Sunday service;

People, who have never given thought to purchasing guns, are buying them during the Coronavirus panic; Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva tells how the largest sheriff's department in the country is handling this pandemic situation.

A spike in divorce filings in China, where self-quarantining has been in effect for far longer than in America; a couple, who run a marriage ministry, fear that self-quarantining could lead them to the brink of divorce; relationship advice;

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Dr. Phil's guests are people who are battling COVID-19 and say it is nothing like they expected; the shocking symptoms and the hard truth; a nurse, who is sick after treating patients, tells what is happening in hospitals and why it is a broken system;

Donna says her depression, from isolation, has gotten so bad that she is not eating, sleeping, or showering; a disaster mental health specialist tells why some people trap themselves at home, while others foolishly flock to crowded beaches and parties;

Medical workers on the front lines are fighting the Coronavirus and risking their own lives in the process of curbing some of the damage in this pandemic; an ICU doctor; a labor nurse; how New York nurses are doing in the eye of the virus' storm.

An Olympic athlete questions how much longer he should sacrifice the dreams of his family for his dream; a woman fears she won't be able to leave her house for months, or for even a year; a scientist fears that the worst may be yet to come;

Defiant fools frolic on the beach, go to parties and weddings, and hoard supplies during the pandemic; 15 seconds which changed a spring breaker's life forever; a restaurateur defies his governor; David Foster calms people with some new music;

More than 24,000 Americans remain stuck overseas, due to canceled flights and closed borders throughout the world, because of the Coronavirus; a pair is trapped in India; a couple who spend 13 days confined to a cruise ship cabin; getting home safely.

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Whistleblowers say employers punish them for calling for safe work conditions during the Coronavirus pandemic; nurses say they've been penalized for demanding protective masks; a man says Amazon fired him over working conditions.

Americans are desperate for cures for COVID-19, and some turn to fake "miracle" products; separating fact from fiction; the information viewers need to stay ahead of the con artists; former NFL player Kyle Turley says CBD is the cure; a conversation with George Mueller, the Deputy Commissioner of California's Insurance's Enforcement Branch, about con artists who sell fake miracle products;

Anne and her boyfriend broke up a few days after self-isolating, and she has been drinking alcohol to help heal her broken heart; Danielle and Nikki share the struggles they have both seen firsthand in the sober community during the pandemic;

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As COVID-19 continues to ravage America, Dr. Phil takes an inside look at the intense search for treatments and a cure; people who are battling the problems that aren't health-related, but are also dire;

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How to handle the Coronavirus quarantine, while managing one's marriage, family, and even sobriety; experts help Dr. Phil tackle some tough subjects to get viewers the answers they need during difficult times.

Denise and her husband Jarod say they are extremely concerned about their 10-year-old son, who screams, curses, and tells family members he wants them to die;

Karen and her husband say they have been under a tremendous amount of stress, since their unmotivated 22-year-old son moved back home;

Tara claims her husband, Mike, is a sociopath who controls her every move; Mike claims Tara is manic, unstable, and might be bipolar;

Dr. Phil meets a family of five, who have each been affected by COVID-19 in different ways; Tom says the media has blown the virus out of proportion, while his wife says she is frantically worried that Tom may fall ill;

Mark Anthony questions whether he and his Russian fiancée, Marina, have the same priorities; he wonders whether they should go through with tying the knot;

Kelly's father allowed her ex-husband, Allen, to move into his home after their divorce, and he has been living there for five years, sleeping in a bunk bed, claiming to look for jobs, and he is not being an active parent to their two children;

Dianne says she's stuck: self-isolating and sharing a bed with her ex-husband, with whom she can never have a civilized conversation without triggering an argument;

Norma says she has come out of retirement, after her second husband died, and spent her life savings to fund three online boyfriends she's never met because they told her that they are all stuck overseas;

Dr. Phil finds out more about Norma's online boyfriends, including Jeff, who claims that he's been sleeping in an unoccupied church in Cairo, Egypt for months and bought a ticket home with Norma's money; Dr. Phil helps her to see the truth;

Mike has a beautiful home, a fiancee, two children, and an opioid addiction; author Dan Peres shares his new memoir, "As Needed for Pain", in which he reveals his addiction to Vicodin, after a back injury;

Cheryl says her ex-husband, Dave, did drugs with their daughter, Cassie, and received money that she earned through prostitution; Cassie leaves the studio an hour before the taping and runs down the street to a liquor store, with staffers chasing her;

Dr. Phil meet 28-year-old Cassie, who admits to being a drug addict since high school and using drugs with her father;

Denna says that ever since her formerly overachieving daughter, Karenna, had started hanging out with her boyfriend, Tommie, last year, she has been on a very fast downward spiral of smoking weed, lying, stealing, and getting fired from jobs;

Ten years ago, Suzy says, she had developed a mysterious illness that leaves her shaking, trembling, convulsing, and having to force-feed herself more than 7,000 calories a day to stop her attacks;

Wanda Cooper Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arberg, who was shot and killed while jogging in Georgia, is joined by her attorney, Lee Merritt;

Lois' daughter and sister say she sacrificed her 37 year marriage and retirement savings for fictional online love; Lois says she is happily engaged to a man she met online and she wants her family to accept her fiancé, who is stuck in Africa;

Dr. Phil continues to unveil the truth behind the online relationships of Lois;

Dr. Phil takes the search to Nigeria to locate Lois' current fiance, "Paul Shaw"; Lois believes he is struck in Africa and asks Dr. Phil to fly him to the U.S. so they can start their future together;

Christy learned that her house was almost in foreclosure because her husband, Ernest, had stopped paying the mortgage; he says she is at fault because she is a hoarder and doesn't cook, clean, parent their kids, or help out with the home expenses;

Tina says her now 18-year-old adopted son, Evan, steals, lies, and has engaged in questionable and dangerous relationships; she says she and her husband have given him everything, but he's so desperate for love, he has downloaded 25 dating apps;

A young woman's boyfriend tells police she committed suicide; years later, he walks into a police station and confesses to her murder; Kaylyn Whitaker's parents speak out in an exclusive interview;

The emotional and psychological toll being placed on health care workers and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic; an ICU nurse is haunted by the faces of those she has lost;

Kelly lost her parents and her brother to COVID-19, while her husband fought for his life; Hannah lost her father without being able to say goodbye, and now she sleeps 18 hours a day;

Widespread civil unrest follows the death of unarmed Minnesota man George Floyd, while he was in police custody; guests include civil rights attorney S. Lee Merritt, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif), author Mark Lamont Hill, and activist Tamika Mallory;

A 2-year-old is found wandering alone, miles away from where his young mother's car was abandoned, and she is still missing; their family speak out in an exclusive interview;

Model and motivational speaker Cheryl Hunter says that, at age 18, she took the trip of a lifetime to France, but on the day that she arrived, she was lured, abducted, drugged, and raped by a group of men; a wise woman in Japan changes Cheryl's life;

Sherrie has become obsessed with trying to find her missing daughter, even infiltrating local gangs to try to find answers, and her other daughter says that she is putting the family in danger by refusing to accept that they may never learn what happened;

Teenager Robbie, 15, admits that he has strong sexual urges toward young children and that he has confessed to sexually abusing two young victims; soon, he will be discharged from medical treatment and he says that he is still a danger to others;

Bob's family's posh lifestyle ended, when he lost his job and had to start asking for money; his daughters say his lies and deceptions started long before his job loss; he claimed to be a pilot and an attorney and even said he had stage 4 cancer;

A man's daughters accuse him of alcohol abuse and prowling the internet for young women; the emotional toll on men and women of law enforcement, the stigma associated with admitting they are struggling, and why some feel suicide is the only option;

Jens Soerring confessed to the murders of Derek and Nancy Haysom in 1985, then recanted; after he spent 33 years behind bars, the Commonwealth of Virginia granted him parole, and he tells Dr. Phil what happened; Dr. Phil also hears from Rodney Reed;

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;

A widow and her two older daughters ask for help with 13-year-old Janelle, whose fits of rage and anger have resulted in her kicking a hole in the kitchen wall, smashing a phone, and even with her being admitted to a mental health facility;

Patricia says her brother, Ismael, provided false testimony that helped convict her of a murder that she didn't commit, while he says that the authorities twisted his words; emotions got heated, as the siblings face each other, for the first time in over two decades;

Patricia says that her brother, Ishmael, lied in court, which led to her conviction of a murder that she didn't commit; her grandson, Suge Knight Jr., son of former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, stands by her and makes a plea for prison reform;

When a successful TV producer mysteriously disappears in the Idaho wilderness, his friends and family are left with nothing but questions;

Heidi says her son Noah, 21, is a promising rapper with a bright future, but he is throwing it away; Dr. Phil challenges him on his outlook and behavior; a mystery celebrity from the rap world appears and makes Noah an offer that he can't refuse;

Ellie says that her father initially told her that her mother had died in a mental institution, then changed his story; Ellie is determined to solve her mother's mysterious disappearance;

Victoria says her son DJ, 14, has been angry, violent, and out of control all of his life, and she locks herself in the bedroom at night because he regularly threatens and attacks her;

Drug addict Gabe's heroin use during pregnancy resulted in her child being born seven weeks premature and needing oxygen to survive; her mother became guardian of the baby girl, but Gabe says that she is sober now and wants her daughter returned immediately;

Becky reveals why it's not just daughter Gabe's drug use that has her unwilling to relinquish guardianship of her grandchild; Gabe says something that leaves Dr. Phil questioning whether she really is ready to get her daughter back;

Women who believe that their sons were entrapped in sex stings by law enforcement;

A woman who believes her already rocky marriage has become worse due to increased debt and her husband's controlling ways;

A woman, whose husband was murdered after they were carjacked, now shares the gruesome details of what they had endured at the hands of the kidnapper, including what had transpired after she was left alone with her husband's killer for many hours;

A woman claims her sister has threatened to kill her multiple times, burn their parents' house, and is unstable, yet she still gets financial support from their mother;

Mothers who say they feel tired, stressed, and angry because of the pressures of raising children and earning money during a pandemic;

Scott and Tanya say that their daughter, Courtney, 19, has been completely brainwashed and manipulated by her 18-year-old boyfriend; Courtney says that her parents have done everything they can to invade her privacy, and she wants them to trust her judgment; ;

Melanie's home is so cluttered that she can barely walk through it, she stores over 100,000 videos and photos on her phone, and she has a feeling of missing out if she doesn't take images of whatever she sees or collect every knickknack that tempts her;

Food truck owner Danny struggles with a meth addiction and relapsed last year, after 12 years of sobriety; he says his wife Alisa and the stress she brings him caused his relapse and are triggers that forced him to use;

2020 has been a tough, sad, and challenging year; before greeting New Year 2021, viewers will get a chance to ask Dr. Phil their burning questions; Dr. Phil's wife's, Robin McGraw, secret to staying connected to loved ones during the pandemic;

With over 1 billion views across his social media platforms, Jack, 17, says he'll do almost anything for a "like"; his parents say he continues to push the envelope with his rude and disruptive pranks and has had close encounters with the police;

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