What are you about to do right now? We're going to take a look at this
Bhad Bhabie and Dr. Phil situation and why it's actually incredibly upsetting and disturbing.
The reason this matters is Bhad Bhabie recently made some allegations towards Dr. Phil,
and several other people, which are pretty serious and should be paid attention to.
Before we do that, though, let's do a comment shout out from our last video. "D'Angelo,
you are what I imagine my childhood cat would be like as a human." Well, they've done it. They've
broken me down to my bare essentials. So the first person this involves his Bhad Bhabie,
also known as Danielle Bregoli, also also known as the "catch me outside" girl. Then the other
person involved is Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil needs no introduction and he needs no active psychology
license. Apparently, Bhad Bhabie has demanded an apology over something that happened on the show.
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After this disastrous interview, where she says the line...
Catch me outside, how about that? Months after the "catch me outside,
how about that" interview, Dr. Phil sends her to the mythical ranch.
Tell me about Turn-About Ranch. It's a program.
How did you do there? And that is actually the basis of this entire
story that we're about to go through. She goes on to explain that this ranch
contained a bunch of abusive adults and that nobody said anything about it.
I was 13 years old when I went to Turn-About Ranch. I kept my mouth shut for so long. You have
no evidence. You don't have a phone there. They don't have cameras there. There's no evidence.
I think there's a lot of situations like this where you can't necessarily provide
proof for things that happened, and it really is just going to be your words against hers.
A young lady, her name is Hannah, she recently spoke out because while she was there,
she was sexually assaulted. And then when she reported that she was assaulted, she was punished
by staff. I knew like, "Okay, I really have to say something, I really have to have her back on this,
because I truly believe that they did that." I honestly really appreciate this.
I really think for once, honestly, she's using her platform perfectly.
Dr. Phil, I'm going to give you from now until April 5th to issue an apology. Not only to me,
but to Hannah and any other child that you sent to Turn-About or any other program like this. And if
you don't, I'm going to handle things my way. She's going to catch him outside.
Turn-About is in the middle of the Escalante, Utah. It's a very small
town. Took in there against my will, they give you transporters. Transporters are two people
that come in in the middle of the night, they don't tell them where they're going,
they just take them, they handcuff them, they put them in the car. It's basically like kidnapping.
That's like 1000% definitely kidnapping. So for the first three days you're there
is no showering. They put you in a circle, which is a teepee, and you have to sit there
for three days. They wouldn't let me lay down for nothing. I was falling asleep and they're
like, "Ah, ah, get up, get up." Sleep deprivation. What is that
supposed to be teaching a child? They take away necessity privileges,
like sleeping on a bed, eating good food, not being cold. If you reported another kid getting
bullied by their peers or something, they would just say, "Well, maybe that's what they need."
It always, always, always, always comes down to a circle of adults who just turned the other way.
Even though there was written rules, if a staff was angry at the moment or if you just did
something that they felt was bad, you would get your own punishment. You have to go on reflection,
walk in the arena for hours on end, sit outside in the cold on the floor, you have
to pick up piles in a wheelbarrow of horse... It's kind of giving me child labor vibes with
all the wood chopping and all that stuff. That's why I was always so scared to speak
out because it's like, "No-one's going to believe me." Writing letters to my mom like,
"Mom, I will do anything. You don't understand what this place is like."
So she's not going to blame her mother, but I'll go ahead and blame her mother for her.
That is so weird. That's such weird behavior. One of the kids, he had tried to steal a car or
something. Everyone was screaming on the walkies. It was really crazy. And he ended up killing one
of the staff members. Yikes.
They made all the kids that were around to come down and then they told us not
to tell us anything. Every kid that's at Turn-About, they have us all sit in
a circle and they're like, "Listen, Jimmy died." I'm sorry, how traumatic is that? You get put in a
strange ranch with a bunch of other presumably poorly behaved children that you don't know,
and then one of them just kills the staff member? Legitimately trauma, it's trauma.
Mother of the kid, Clay, who killed the staff, she was married to the brother of the president
of the program. What?
Which I also believe is a conflict of interest. I don't know why they would do that. What parents
need to understand is, if your child is acting out because of trauma, like sexual abuse, or the kid's
parents got divorced, or just anything like that, you don't send your kid to a program like this.
I never thought I would say this about Danielle "Bhad Bhabie" Bregoli, but, did she lie? It's
been nothing but facts the entire time. Doing it to kids who are so helpless,
you know that you're watching their letters, you know that they don't have any contact with their
parents. I'm not really sure why Dr. Phil still sends kids here. It just really doesn't make
sense. Like, are you trying to help them, or are you trying to hurt them even more? Just the abuse,
the malnourishing, physical abuse, mental abuse, all that and this place is still up and running.
That's bizarre. It just doesn't make sense.
I want to take a look at some of the responses that people are giving to it. It bothers me
when someone's a victim of abuse or anything like that and then they also do things are not great,
and people start acting like those two have things to do with each other. That's
ridiculous. But people want to say, "Oh yeah, well you did this. And therefore,
I'm not going to listen to you about that." Just so we're clear, do not
go and harass anybody I'm about to mention. Thankfully, the top comment has their facts
straight. "I just know you're not saying she wants clout. Sis is opening up about being assaulted and
abused, and the first thing y'all think of is clout?" People are acting like she said,
"Drake stepped on my foot one time at a party." What I'm saying is, that is not, "Oh, let me talk
about this obscure place I went to at age 13 to stand in solidarity with another victim."
"She's washed and wants clout again, no doubt at all." No one ever likes you more because you
opened up about abuse. The only thing opening up about abuse does is help other victims,
and unfortunately make you the target of literally even more abuse. I kind of appreciate that this
was commented because I do want to get into this. She's done and said a lot of not okay stuff,
to put it nicely. "Your reputation plays a part when it comes to serious stuff like this." So
basically, no it doesn't. Your reputation has absolutely nothing to do with whether
or not you should or should not be believed when you come forward about things like this.
"Does Dr. Phil own that ranch? Is he there during the day to day operations? If no, then she should
be demanding an apology for them, not Dr. Phil. He's a TV show personality recommended a camp
that had a deal with the network." First of all, Dr. Phil is a psychologist... Was? Is?
Was, but he let his license expire, right? As someone with a doctorate in psychology, you would
definitely understand that a ranch doesn't really help kids, right? A victim comes forward, people
always start at, "Let's analyze this survivor. Let's analyze their story," and they never start
at, "Let's look at this famous person. Why did they assault someone?" That's it. If you would
start there, all of this nonsense tweets that I'm going through would never have been tweeted.
Here's the last one. "If Danielle Bregoli was sexually abused, she needs to make a police
report." A 13 year old? What? She didn't actually say anything about being abused,
but she did kind of allude during one part that she was acting out because of some form
of abuse. When people go to the police, then people start finding other ways of blaming
you. "Oh yeah? Why are you making it public?" So the final piece of this puzzle is Dr. Phil's,
quote unquote, response. Just so we're on the same page, her video came out over 24 hours
ago and all these tweets I'm bringing up happened about 19-ish hours ago, meaning Dr. Phil started
doing this immediately after her video goes up. He starts live tweeting about Ru Paul's Drag Race.
I think it's really, really obvious that this is some bizarre attempt at
deflection. When Dr. Phil was trending, when you clicked in, it was a mix of Drag Race and
also the Danielle Bregoli situation. So he, or whoever that was, actually did successfully cut
down on the amount of, "Hey, we think Dr. Phil's complicit in this weird abuse situation," by
distracting people with Ru Paul's Drag Race. And I think that that is bizarre. So in
conclusion, what do I think about all of this? As for Bhad Bhabie, I'm extremely glad that she
spoke up about it. As for Dr. Phil, thankfully he's not accused of actually abusing anyone in
this situation, but being complicit in this kind of stuff definitely warrants an apology.
And if there's anything to learn from this, it's just that nothing good happens in Utah. Anyway,
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