Well you know her from unforgettable roles
in Independence Day, Kill Bill, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Vivica A. Fox has had major success on stage,
television and film, as a producer, business woman,
and now, an author.
She has triumphantly built an international brand
that stands on the strength that women can do anything.
And now, she joins me in the daytime talk show world
with an exciting and dynamic show called Face the Truth.
(audience clapping)
Face the Truth is produced by Stage 29,
my son Jay's production company
and it bridges the gap between quality television
and the exploitive, voyeuristic television that
I wish would go away.
Let's welcome the leader of the truth team, Vivica A. Fox!
(cheering) (intense music)
Hello!
How are you, darling?
Good to see you. Good to see you!
(audience cheering)
Hey there, darlin'.
What's up?
Oh, it's been a busy, busy week.
My goodness.
But it's been awesome.
For those that haven't seen it,
tell us about Face the Truth.
Face the Truth is our new talk show,
executive produced by my boss here, Dr. Phil.
Thank you so much for this amazing new job
that I'm absolutely loving. (audience cheering)
Well anyway, Face the Truth,
it's a panel style talk show where
I'm the hostest with the mostest
and I have a truth team and the truth team consists of
Areva Martin, Dr. Judy Ho,
Rosie Mercado and Judge Scary Mary.
What I love about my wonderful truth team
is that we have our guests come on the show
and they come on the show to share some of their
personal problems and we give them, you know,
prescriptive sentencing and we do it straight up
with no chaser sometimes.
Yeah, that's for sure. (Vivica laughing)
On tomorrow's show, you meet Nicole and her mother
who has been dancing for dollars for years.
Here's a little clip of what you have been missing
on Face the Truth.
What was it like growing up for you with your mom?
So growing up, my grandma often watched me
and I would go to the strip club if my mom was running late
at the end of her shift.
My grandma would drop me off, bang the door,
and I would sit in the strip club.
There was tons of men around me.
I had to do dinners with customers all the time.
I had to tell these men that I loved them
even though I didn't.
Ooh!
And that's what would happen.
Wow.
And I agree, terrible.
You know what?
If I had it on to watch Dr. Phil,
'cause it's the only show that I watch now,
and if I hadn't known about that show
back when I was younger 'cause I was 16
when I got pregnant, I was 17 when I had my daughter,
I was young, I was inexperienced.
I think I made huge mistakes.
But with that being said, I was 18 when I had a child
and I didn't make those mistakes.
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Well, you can find out tomorrow if the Truth Team
was able to help this mother/daughter relationship.
But this stuff starts getting real, right?
Oh my gosh. You're starting to see
about that.
Yeah, we have a lot of parent/child conflict.
Did you ever think you'd be doing this kind of thing?
Hoo! No. (everyone laughs)
I've got some questions for you, okay, 'kay?
Yes. Now look.
Since we've been doing Face the Truth, y'all,
I'll be honest, I been cryin'
my lashes off, okay?. (laughter)
How can you stay so cool?
How do you stay so cool?
I'm just cool.
Aww! (laughter)
Okay, okay! (applause)
To me, I'm problem solving all the time, so
We are too! I spend half my time
hearing what isn't said. Okay.
If this person's talking,
I'm often paying attention
to what this person's doing,
how they're reacting.
I'm so task-oriented at the time that,
maybe it kinda keeps me from getting
so pulled in to the situation.
Okay now, what about dealing with
difficult guest? (audience chuckles)
Look, y'all, we've had some, okay?
Are there any other kind? (everyone laughs)
You know!
Just to have patience with them.
Nobody has ever booked themselves
to come on here and let me know
how well things are going.
Okay. (laughter)
I just want to stop by
and let you know how how well
my life is going, no, they... is going, yeah.
On our show, on Face the Truth,
we've got some fun ones. Yeah.
But, you know, we've had
a couple of ones
that were very testy.
Yeah, here's an example
of one you had Mmmhmm.
on Monday's episode which covers
an issue that we see a lot
right here on Dr. Phil.
Unsuspecting women looking for love
who end up getting what's called "catfished",
and that means people that take on
a false identity and then
reel 'em in.
Take a look at this.
(tense music) After 57 years
I finally met the man of my dreams
and all I want to do
is spend the rest of my life with him.
He's a scammer.
She's totally being scammed by him.
What do you say to people that question
whether or not Bobby's real?
He's absolutely real. Really?
There's no two ways about it.
What makes you say that?
Because I could feel it.
You can feel it?
We wanted to get
to the bottom of this
so we hired a private investigator.
What did you find during your investigation?
There were some red flags that
he may be involved in scam activity.
How's that make you feel
to hear, Laurie?
I still feel the way I feel.
(tense music)
(audience applauds) Yeah.
Laurie thought she
had found herself a prince, y'all.
And what we found out, unfortunately,
she was just, she was lonely.
And she was just looking for love
in all of the wrong places.
You know, it's always heartbreaking
to me to deliver the truth
because you hate
to tell them the truth
because once it breaks their heart
when they hear it
but you want to do it before
they wind up totally broke
and going to jail, and it's usually
someone that's at the end
of their work life.
So everything they've worked
so hard to save
is gone in a flash. It's gone.
Just absolutely heartbreaking.
We found out
because we had a private investigator
for our show,
that they have places that,
they're like towers Yeah.
where they all get together
and they just keep
blasting out these emails Yeah.
And they just catch people
and they get them in this
vicious cycle of earning their trust.
And then they go from earning their trust
to then...get in to their
bank accounts. Yeah.
You know, how they got caught
in that web of deceit, to me
it was amazing to find out.
They're very very creative Yeah.
I am so proud of Face the Truth
and I'm am so proud
of the job that you guys are doing
because I think it's highest
and best use of television.
When people can tun in
and there's a takeaway Yes.
for them to say
"This is something I've learned
"and I can share,
"I can use myself,
"I can share it with my family and friends."
You go home at the end
of the day tired, but you know
you've done a good thing. Absolutely, yeah.
You've touched people's lives.
I'm proud of you guys.
You're doing a great job.
Thank you so much, Dr. Phil. (applause)
Alright, I want to thank
all of by guests today.
Especially special thanks
to Vivica A. Fox,
the host of Face the Truth.
The show just looks great.
For more information,
visit facethetruthtv.com
and to watch
check your local listings.
You are gonna really like this.
These guys have got it goin' on.