Well, Crystal says Dominique used to be
a varsity athlete, an honor roll student,
until he fell in with the wrong crowd.
And now it sounds like he is the wrong crowd.
She wrote to me as her last chance to save her son
before he turns 18,
and that happens in just a couple of weeks.
And get this, Crystal runs a sober living house.
So, she knows the drill.
She knows what it takes, and yet,
she can't seem to practice the tough love necessary
with her own son.
Is that unusual?
No, it's not unusual.
It's different when it's your own family.
My 17-year-old son, Dominique, is lost.
My son wakes up every single morning and gets high.
And stays high.
All day long.
It has changed his life.
If he does not have marijuana,
he uses the vape as a substitute.
My son tells me all the time,
"Mom, I'm a pothead, get used to it."
As far as I know, he's small time dealing marijuana.
My son was an amazing kid growing up.
I raised him in the church.
He has a beautiful singing voice.
His grades, principal's list, eighth grade class president,
an amazing basketball player.
He's been blessed with so many talents.
He's squandering them away.
When he was young, he thought weed was dumb
and now he can't live without it.
He dropped out of high school his junior year.
My son would talk back, he would be very nasty.
Bro, I'm not taking the trash out.
He was so confrontational.
I have younger children at the house as well,
and it was just a horrible influence.
Eight months ago, I had to have him move with my mom,
because it was just too much.
Dominique's confused and manipulative.
He talks back.
He's rude.
You tell him not to go somewhere, he does just the opposite.
He breaks every rule that you put down.
He just pushes your button.
My son is hanging around with dangerous people.
A couple of days ago, my son was robbed and pistol-whipped.
He had a gash right above his eyebrow.
Blood just pourin' out of his face.
My feeling is that it was probably a drug deal
that went wrong.
I am extremely worried about my son being killed
on these streets.
If Dominique doesn't turn his life around
then he's gonna end up dead or in prison.
I don't want to see my son dead.
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Okay.
It's good to meet you guys.
You're very concerned, right?
Yes, absolutely.
Pretty much, from the time he wakes up
until the time he crashes, he's high.
Exactly.
We don't know what to do with him.
Now, we had trouble getting him here.
And I wanna talk about how you guys reacted to that.
Saturday, November 9th, the crew was set to film with him.
8:30 a.m., Dominique says he went to get a hair cut.
Says broke Grandma's truck window and went to fix it.
You say called 20 times, texted him 10 times.
2:30, 3:30, he calls you and then he hangs up on you.
Yes, uh huh.
Then he tells the producers 16 different times,
I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming,
I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there.
Never shows.
Okay, then Sunday the 10th,
he's scheduled to be on a flight to LA.
Misses the flight.
Seven p.m., you get a call from Dominique,
he says he's in Mexico
and the cops have pulled him over.
What I want you to listen to
is the reaction that you have,
the tone with which you engage.
Let's listen.
Hey Mama,
I just gave police a stack, so we safe.
I'm coming home right now.
So, I just gave 'em that, and they let me go.
They gave me a warrant to cross the border,
so, I'm crossing right now.
Are you kidding me right now?
How soon before you get to your grandma's?
Like three hours.
(beep) Dr. Phil, I don't need Dr. Phil no more.
You don't need Dr. Phil anymore?
All right, well, you know that's what we're here for, son,
is to try to get you some help.
We want you to come here to the show, son.
I'll try to come, it's not my fault.
Where you at right now?
I'm literally crossing the border.
As soon as you get there, can you call me?
All right, bro, I love you, bye.
I just feel like, at that point,
my objective was to get him here.
But there's a point at which you need to say
you need to man up and do what you say you're gonna do.