(dramatic music)
For more than 10 years,
this place has just been horrific.
(dramatic music)
We're in my youngest daughters' room,
trash, stained floor,
she can't even get to the bathroom.
(camera shuttering)
My oldest daughter's room.
There's food everywhere. This is another pigsty.
Nobody's cleaning this house, right?
Right now it's a, you know, not a lot getting done.
I'm living like a single mom,
I have to do everything myself.
By the time I get home from work,
I have hyper-thyroidism, I suffer from fatigue issues,
I'm exhausted.
Now it didn't always look like this, right?
Right.
You built a beautiful home
and then look at it now.
Come on, seriously?
And this is a direct representation
of the stress
and emotional abuse that I've been under.
Ernie decided that he wanted to become a farmer.
This is a chicken-coup that Ernie built.
Some chickens killed each other,
and some were killed by predators.
Here's some remnants of the chicken.
Ernie got three alpacas.
Our oldest asked Ernie what that brown clump was.
There was a dead alpaca in the field.
Do you still have animals?
No sir.
Good.
The chaos in our marriage is affecting our daughters.
You torture us, you keep us like prisoners in this house!
You are sick!
You have allowed this to happen,
you have allowed your house to get this way.
Does she have your (bleep) in a Dixie Cup?
(audience laughter) What the hell is wrong
with you?
(applause)
You've gotta man up and take control here.
If child protective services sees this,
they will take these children out of this home immediately.
That's my biggest fear.
Well, it should be.
Great job, mom and dad.
They would be better off in foster care
than they are with the two of you
in this kind of situation.
(audience applauds)
I am going to send a professional crew,
not only to clean, but to help you organize.
If you want to be a hoarder and hang onto that stuff,
you're gonna need to make a choice
whether you wanna hand on to junk
or you wanna hang on to your children.
Your choice.
You can't do both.
Let's fix it.
Will you do that?
Yes.
(dramatic music flares)
Well, after the show, we helped Christie and Ernest work
with the cleaning company Address Our Mess
to get their house in a livable condition for their family.
(dramatic music)
Ever since we're got back from doing the Dr. Phil show,
I've been working on the house.
I got three trash bags of stuff.
I'm glad that the clean up crew is here.
Finally, we can get this mess under control.
I'm Miguel from Address Our Mess.
I'm Christie.
Christie, okay.
Yeah, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you guys.
We're gonna look around and take great care of you guys
and you can trust us and you'll be proud of us.
Thank you.
(dramatic music)
Do y'all want the instructions to your metal detector?
No.
No?
Okay.
How about swim goggles?
No.
No?
Oh, this is great.
(upbeat music)
By the end of the day,
everything will be nice and organized.
I hope I can do it, Miguel.
You can do it.
I'm a little nervous.
You're doing a good job, though.
You and your daughters.
They're doing a good job.
Now Ernie, I don't know about Ernie, but...
Ernie's not even here.
He's missing out.
(dramatic music)
(vacuum whirring)
Remember how cluttered it was?
Yes.
Look at the difference.
Yeah, that looks great.
The girls forgot they had a rug under there.
(inspirational music)
It was a pleasure meeting you.
It was a pleasure meeting you too.
Thank you so much.
You all worked so hard.
Bye!
Thank you.
(applause)
Well, huge difference, right?
And sometimes all anybody needs is a fresh start.
Hit the reset button, right?
Well not always, because unfortunately,
things didn't stay clean for long.
Soon after, Ernest claims Christie and their daughters
just stopped cleaning and let things start
piling up again.
Now their home is almost back to the way it was.