This is a 28 year old adult.
Tell me why you are choosing
to allow someone that demeans you,
attacks you, threatens you, threatens everybody
that you love and care about live in your home.
Well, Dr. Phil, Brittany was a normal person,
and growing up, she had a lot of incidents
that happened in her life.
When her grandfather died, things changed in her life.
She became very depressed and very sad
and just certain things changed her, from--
And she was how old when, she calls him papi.
Yes.
How old was she when?
When her grandfather died,
she was 20, around 21, 22.
So she was an adult then?
Correct.
And that's been seven years?
Correct.
And people go through a grieving process,
and I understand that this
was a substantial loss in her life
because her father had been gone since she was a child.
He left at the age of seven.
He moved to Florida.
Right, and so she feels a substantial rejection there,
and papi really stepped in and filled a role
of a male authority figure in her life.
She bonded with him, she leaned on him a lot.
They had a great relationship.
And then she loses him.
Was she volatile and explosive with impulse control
issues before her grandfather died?
Oh no, absolutely not.
Okay, so it wasn't things that she says now.
She says, I will kill you,
and I wish you nothing good, I hope you die.
All of these horrible things that she says,
none of that was before he passed?
No.
Okay.
Did it begin immediately when he passed?
No, when he passed, she just started changing
and she was depressed and then she actually had an episode
where she was one day in the tub and she was incoherent
and we had to call the police because she was kneeling down
and just not even speaking to anyone,
and all of a sudden it was like as if she snapped.
Why call the police?
Well, my mother did because she was at my mother's house
and my mother called the ambulance,
and they said that they had, they asked her what was wrong
and they had to call the police.
So the ambulance and the police came.
They took her out of the shower with no clothes on.
They wrapped her up, and then they actually waited
until she calmed down, and then took her to a hospital.
This was the first time she was in a hospital.
Okay, you said 'til she calmed down.
You first said she was just on her knees
kind of staring ahead like she was catatonic.
Right.
But you said she became agitated?
Oh yeah, she became really agitated,
she was screaming at the police and she was telling them
to get out of her grandmother's house
and she was just totally--
Well, in fairness, if one minute
you're taking a shower and the next minute
there are a couple officers in there with you.
(audience laughing)
I mean, you do have a reaction to that, right?
Right, but it wasn't that type of reaction.
It was more of a mental reaction.
It was definitely that there was a mental issue
going on at the moment, because when they took her out,
she didn't respond at all at first.
She was just very catatonic,
and then as a little time passed,
by the time I got there she was getting agitated.
Okay, and you said for a while
she would just break things, but then it turned to you.
She stopped breaking things so much
and started attacking you physically.
Correct.
Why do you put up with that?
Is it because you think that this
is a mental illness and she can't help herself?
I believe there is definitely something
mentally wrong with my daughter, yes.
So, to the point that you believe this is involuntary?
I do, yes.
So you think this is not something she can control?
You think it's like she loses control,
loses contact with reality and becomes
a completely different personality, a different psyche,
and does this. She loses,
she loses her contact with reality
to the point of that she's going to kill me.
I'm in fear for my life.
I cannot live with this person anymore.
I cannot have her with me.
She's going to do something, she's going to hurt me.
Okay, so this is gonna end now one way or the other.
She's not gonna live with you anymore.
No, she cannot live with me.
Okay, so what is, if she doesn't go home
with you today, where's she gonna go?
I don't know.
I don't know, I have to try to figure something out
because if she comes back to me, Dr. Phil, we're dead.
My family is gone, either she's gonna go to jail,
I'm gonna go to jail, somebody's gonna get hurt,
somebody's gonna be dead.