For almost two decades Dr. Phil’s been everyone’s favorite TV doctor (sorry Oz) and now that’s he signed a new deal that’ll keep him on the tube til 2022 you can bet we’ll be introduced to more “Cash Me Ousside” girls and Treasure situations.
Today the good doctor stopped by The Breakfast Club where he proves that whether on TV or on the radio, Dr. Phil gonna Dr. Phil. Talking to the morning trio, Dr. Philip McGraw talks about why white people don’t understand the concept of white privilege, how he almost saved “Cash Me Ousside” girl from herself, and why he doesn’t drink alcohol.
Here are the 7 things we learned from Dr. Phil on The Breakfast Club.
1. The Transracial People
Dr. Phil believes that people can be transracial depending on how you identify yourself. That being said he believes that Treasure really does feel like she’s a white person. By the way did Candance Owens send her an invite to that MAGA event for Black folks last week?
2. White Privilege
Dr. Phil feels that white people don’t understand white privilege because they don’t experience the blatant or subtle racism that Black people do. For his part Dr. Phil says he realized his own white privilege back in college when he was getting his Masters and got sensitized to it. From there he began studying it.
3. Brats & ADD
Speaking on the sudden burst in ADD cases, Phil calls it a “waste basket diagnosis” because “When I was growing up that kid was an out of control brat.” Nowadays they’ll call it ADD and ADHD and give them unnecessary medication to treat it.
4. Cash Me Ousside Girl
As for the Danielle “Cash Me Ousside” Bregoli, doc says that he doesn’t keep in touch with her (that would be creepy) and that she’s in a very “dysfunctional situation.” Ya think? He says after she made her world debut on his show they sent her to Turn-About Ranch and her attitude improved so much that she took on a leadership role while there. When she got back home she went back to her old ways and turned her into a “cash cow.” Knowing that her mother was exploiting her daughter, when they invited them back for a follow-up show they did so with an empty house. Once the mother saw there was no audience she was “huffy” and didn’t know what to say or do.
5. Oprah
Though Dr. Phil got his big break by appearing on Oprah’s show, he says he never set out to be a TV star. At the time he got called to be on her show he says he actually loved his career in trial science and had “no desire to be on television at all.” He even passed on the first invite but changed his mind when Oprah called him personally egged him on to do the show saying “You don’t say no to Oprah.” The rest is television history.
6. Father’s Example
Dr. Phil says that his father’s alcoholism is the reason he hasn’t had a drink since he was 16-years-old. That being said he admits that his father’s work ethic did make him the proper parental role model.
7. Megyn Kelly
Being acquainted with Megyn Kelly, Dr. Phil says that he doesn’t think she had any “negative intent” with her defense of black face. Sorry doc, but she knew what she was doing. That we can tell you.
