

“I would have nightmares,” a former employee told BuzzFeed, choosing to remain anonymous for fear of backlash. Phil” staffers have shared allegations of manipulation, racism and abuse under the leadership of Phil McGraw and executive producer Carla Pennington. The irony of the new explosive claims - that a show whose mission it is to advocate for mental health hygiene couldn’t keep its own set happy - isn’t lost on the accusers. Phil’ - the show about mental health where everybody who works on it has terrible mental health because our work conditions were really bad.”

You would walk into the building and there was just a palpable dread and anxiety,” one ex-employee told the site. In the CBS daytime show’s 20 years on air, psychologist McGraw has gained a reputation for his affable, no-nonsense advice and so-called “Phil-isms” - as one goes, “We teach people how to treat us” - that he doles out to guests and their families on the brink of crisis. Phil” show have shared allegations with BuzzFeed News that cast a dark shadow on the long-running advice program. Phil” fix his own reportedly broken work family?Ībout a dozen current and former employees of the “Dr. My husband is 30 years younger than me - and flirts with women on TikTokĬan “Dr. Phil guest: I’m a ‘birthing person, not a woman or mother’ Phil opens up about controversial 2016 interview with Shelley Duvall I sent $80K to my ‘millionaire’ boyfriend I’ve never met - did he catfish me?ĭr.
