Dr Phil Show - Young, Gorgeous, Privileged and Destroying Her Family [6-08-2014] {OZFox42}

Young, Gorgeous, Privileged and Destroying Her Family

(May 20, 2014)

Joy and Jerry say their 24-year-old daughter, Jessi, has a severe addiction to alcohol and suffers from bulimia, and her destructive choices are tearing their family apart. Jessi opens up about her behavior and what she believes may be the root cause. When Dr. Phil throws her a lifeline, will she grab ahold?

A Family on Edge

Jessi’s parents, Joy and Jerry, and brother, Josh, say Jessi is an alcoholic and bulimic and they worry that she could die at any moment.

Dr. Phil asks Jessi, who has a 3-year-old son, to imagine what it’s like for her mother, to worry every day that she’s going to come home and find her child dead.

“I couldn’t imagine,” she says. “I’d be sick all the time, always.”

“That’s what you’re doing to them. Why?” he asks.

“Because I’m a selfish person,” Jessi says.

“But you don’t really care, do you?”

She says she sometimes feels bad for hurting her father. “I don’t like hurting my dad,” she says tearfully.

Jerry says he feels he’s failed his daughter by making mistakes, such as enabling her, but says they love their daughter dearly and would do anything for her.

Dr. Phil makes it clear that his priority is Jessi’s 3-year-old son, and he will make efforts to protect him if he has to, including making a report so she won’t be legally allowed to be left alone with him.

A Crippling Eating Disorder

In a previous interview, Jessi reveals her eating disorder and how she manages to get her hands on the food her family keeps under lock and key.

“I’m a bulimic. A typical binge would be a bag of chips, a couple sandwiches, four eggs, string cheese — I’ll have five or six of those, 20 cookies and a lot of peanut butter,” Jessi says. “I binge eat two to three times a day. I purge every time.”

“Every day, I will find puke in toilet. I clean it three times a day, because it’s a reminder I can’t bear,” Joy says.

“I can make myself purge without even using my finger,” Jessi says.

Dr. Phil tells Jessi her brain is toxic, which is why she says alcohol wins over her son. He says he knows that she loves her son. “If you’ve got the guts to step up and do what you have to do, you will spend the rest of your life with your son at your side,” he tells her. “But you will not as an alcoholic, you will not as someone who drives drunk, you will not as somebody who hides alcohol when you’re charged with the supervision of a child. You don’t have the right to do that to him, to them or to yourself.”

Dr. Phil continues, “You know you love that little boy.”

“Yeah,” she says, wiping away her tears.

“You will die for your son — but will you live for him?”

Type: TV Rip
Video format: MPEG-4 (MP4)
Audio format: AAC 2ch stereo
Approximate runtime: 42 minutes
Genre: talk show
Australian air date: 6th August, 2014

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