When my daughter and her husband
kicked me out of the house,
I stayed at a motel for five days
and then I didn't have any money left
so I had to leave the motel.
For the last four months, I've been homeless.
Since being homeless, this is my home.
This is my car Silvia.
I've been living out of my car.
Everything I need is right in here.
On this side, I have my purse,
I have my grocery store down here,
some library books, blankets and a pillow.
I have a bag down here that has my toiletries
because I sleep in the back seat.
Then I have all these plastic garbage bags.
Towels, laundry, clean clothes.
I never in my whole life thought I'd be
living out of my car, especially at my age.
I get up in the morning and I go some place
where I can get a cup of coffee
and then I will use their restroom and wash my face,
brush my teeth, change my clothes.
I've been to a truck stop to take a shower
and they charge $12.
It's been a week since my last shower.
I feel like I smell even though
I use deodorant every day.
Most of the time I will drive to a library.
I spend a lot of time in libraries
because I can charge my tablet and my cell phone.
For the evening, I'll park in a parking lot from a motel.
Put my keys in my purse so nobody sees them.
I do this because I have to do it.
I fear that the rest of my life
will be spent living out of my car.
Genine and Nathan know that I'm homeless.
I feel like they've written me off,
like they threw me out like a piece of trash.
Hello Liz.
Hi Dr. Phil. We have a step for you
right here.
(applauding) Thank you.
Okay, you've been listening
to everything so far.
Yes I have.
Why did they throw you out?
I was very uncomfortable with the condition of the house.
And yet you did nothing to help those conditions.
Let me ask you because we,
I understand that there was an agreement when you moved in
that you guys discussed this.
It wasn't just like you just fell in one day.
You actually had an agreement.
In exchange for a place to live,
that you agreed that you would do the following,
that you would help with babysitting,
that you would help clean the house,
that you would pay $600 a month in rent, $50 for cable.
So you would pay a total of $650 in cash
and then you would help with childcare and house cleaning.
But then you said the house wasn't clean,
so are you criticizing yourself?
No.
When I first moved in,
that house was in deplorable condition.
There was always food on the floor.
When I first got there,
I started, I did laundry for eight hours
and I just, I couldn't do anymore.
Stuff would get spilled on the table
or on the floor and it would stay there
for two or three days until somebody
decided to finally clean it up.
But why did you not do that?
I mean, if that was part of your agreement
in moving in and you focused on that
and thought, this is deplorable,
why not pitch in and clean up?
I tried.
You said the kids complained about bug bites.
They would come and to me every day,
oh, I have a bug bite here.
You said you thought it might be cockroaches.
It might be.
The cockroaches were all over the place.
But you say you did not call Child Protective Services.
I did not call
Child Protective Services. Isn't it true that
you talked to a mandated reporter
who did call Child Protective Services?
Yes I did.
And you knew that when you told him
that they were gonna call Child Protective Services?
I asked them, please don't call, please don't call.
They're a mandated reporter.
They have to report, that's literally what that means.
Mandatory reporter.
And when they showed up the next day,
I was very distraught.
My grandchildren are very important to me.
My family is very
important to me. They're very
important to you?
Have you asked how they are over the past four months?
Have you?
Have you even texted asking how one of those children are?
I have texted you.
You have not texted me
and asked me how my children are,
how I am, how my husband is.
None of that has happened, Liz, none of that.