My Mom lies about a lot of things.
She has lied about her health.
She has told people that she has kidney failure
My Mom lies about the living conditions.
She says that it's clean
that it's always taken care of
but in actuality there's garbage.
There's animal feces,
it smells horrible.
It's just a mess.
She also likes to lie to the kids a lot
and says that no one really cares about them.
She'll say that the family doesn't care
or that I don't care.
She says that we want nothing to do with them.
She told my little sister that
the only reason why I was going to the doctor
was because I was planning on getting pregnant
which was obviously a huge lie.
She has told people that
the kids are doing great in school
which in actuality they're not doing that well at all.
She just lies about anything and everything
to get what she wants.
Is that true? No.
Are you a manipulator? No if I was
a manipulator. Is she wrong about this?
Yes if I was a manipulator
I would not be in this situation
that I am.
Well let me ask you a question here.
And I need you to go,
I need you to take two steps
of faith with me. Okay.
One is that I'm here to help.
Okay.
And the other is to take a hypothetical journey with me.
Let's assume you're a house painter.
Oh gosh.
That's your job that's what you're there for.
You're just there to paint the house.
But you get inside the house
and you get in the kitchen
and there's a fire.
There's a fire in one of the walls that you start
to paint and you feel it's really hot.
And so you pick at it and you go
oh my God there's a fire inside this wall.
What would you do?
Would you just paint the wall?
No I would call 911.
You would do something about it right.
Correct.
Consider me a house painter.
Because when I first looked at this situation
I think okay I've got a relationship here
between a mother and a daughter but then I find
a big fire burning.
And the big fire burning is
she starts telling me
that not only are you two arguing and fighting,
not only are you according to her fraudulently
opening credit cards in her name and having
a rift over her saying she wants to "adult"
with her boyfriend.
But she tells me
that you are
being a negligent parent with the children
and that they are living in
an unhealthy environment and she provides us pictures
from 2007 which is over 10 years ago.
And then pictures
from 2016 which is just two years ago
and then reports being there just a few months ago
and seeing virtually the same thing.
And then we want to shoot inside the house
and you go " No, no, no."
She says this is the house
in which her younger bother and sister
have been raised in across the years.
And that when she visited
just a few months ago
her little sister let her in
and there were two areas that were reasonable
and the rest of the house looked exactly like this.
And in addition
to this being a clear violation of any reasonable
parenting that when child protective services
has been called that you've either been given
a heads up and they've had to stay up
all night cleaning the house or you've moved
county to county to stay one step ahead
of child protective services.
So there's no accountability.
And I'm a mandated reporter
and so I immediately confer with
a member of my advisory board,
Dr. Charles Sophy right here.
Bring a chair up for Dr. Sophy if you would.
(audience applauding)
She did not know he was gonna be here
and he's board certified
in adult psychiatry,
child and adolescent psychiatry
and family practice and he is the medical director
for the department of Child and family services
here in Los Angeles which is
the biggest CPS,
biggest DCFS in the entire country.
So I show him all of this
and he's absolutely
appalled and concerned.
So he says, "Well what did you find
"'cause I know you always shoot in the home.
And I say not this one because she wouldn't
let us in the home.
I was never contacted for you guys
to let me enter my house. Well I'll bring
the producers out here because that's not true.