We gotta make a decision here,
you're either here to play
the cover your ass game,
or you're here to seriously help this situation
and your son is at risk here.
And I'm interested in what your agenda is.
So, have you read the letters
and stuff that I sent in?
I read every word.
There's items I didn't know I was coming
on the Dr. Phil show some day
and there's letters and stuff that I sent you
that talked about me reflecting
and introspecting on the mistakes I've made,
yes correct.
Read it all.
It leas me to ask one overwhelming question
that kind of overarches the whole thing,
why are you so insecure?
I'm not insecure.
In fact, let me qualify that to you.
Up until five years ago there wasn't
a mountain I couldn't climb,
there wasn't a challenge I wouldn't accept.
I took, I was very successful in my business.
That event happened and it shattered me, it broke me.
So you are insecure.
With my family, absolutely.
You, by your own description,
manage people in your family by intimidation.
It never starts that way.
It has never started that way.
Well that's what you said.
You said, and I'm sure you have a qualification
and couple paragraphs about that.
Yep.
But you said I manage by intimidation
so I don't have to get physical.
At the end.
So every incident that's ever happened,
I go at it this tone of voice.
I sit down with the kids,
I start talking to them.
And every single time I scream out
honey, come here, I need you.
I need you, come here.
She has insecurities--
So you're a victim of your children.
I didn't say victim.
She has insecurities from her life
where she was molested
that she is
irrationally fear of conflict.
My questions for both of you are very thematic.
For you it's why you've neglected the children
and failed to protect them?
And for you, it's why you've allowed
your insecurity to drive you to abuse these children?
It's not abuse.
It's never been abuse.
Well let me tell you something,
I've been doing this for 45 years,
and I am trained in forensic psychology.
I have often worked as an officer of the court,
evaluating parental conduct.
Okay, so let me ask you some questions.
It's abuse.
Okay let me,
is my wife breaking wooden spoons over my son's ass abuse?
He said you've done that a dozen times.
A dozen?
If that's happening
it would be abuse, absolutely.
Is my wife taking drug money from my son
to pay for a credit card that she secretly got,
and her daughter, my stepdaughter,
racked up to $9,000?
She's whining and complaining about it,
he pulls out a wad, $8,000,
hands her some money and she accepts it.
That never happened.
In the spring, your son told me that.
No, that never happened.
Yeah, how about not telling me
about the gold being stolen?
Oh honey don't raise your voice.
This is not raising my voice.
My attorney told me to take it
because you lock the safe on me all the time,
whenever I've tried to--
I never lock it.
You actually have.
You have the combination.
It started with the affair.
You have the combination.
When you had an affair
because I was just gonna run off with your money.
So should we talk about your two year affair?
Should we talk about your two affair?
Before we had children?
It doesn't matter.
It does actually matter.
You excuse 'cause we didn't have children.
It was long before we had children.
Actually let's talk about this for a second.
You're pathetic.
When you were out--
You are a pathetic human being.
Yeah, when you were out--
You're a terrible father and a worse husband.
You're pathetic.
(audience applauding)
Why do you keep coming back?
It was three weeks after--
I don't know.
It was three weeks two years ago.
Within three weeks you're coming saying
I wanna come back.
And you know what, I didn't let you come back.
That's not true.
That's not the behavior of an abuser.
That's actually not true.
You sent me over 300 texts in two weeks
and I didn't respond to a single one of them.
52.
I filed them all with my lawyer.
52 in four days.
Ridiculous.
We send 52 in an hour.
(laughing)
Excuse me.
I said 52.
My lawyer was gonna file perjury charges on you for lying.
Oh I'm so sure he was.