If Dr. Phil were being at all proper in handling this, we shouldn’t be hearing any story at all. Apparently the only reason we’re hearing about it is because he wanted to have the intervention be a public, ongoing thing for him to exploit on his TV show. He had programs blocked out for the therapy and everything, so now he has to go dig up other sad cases.
but we do NOT know whether the family asked him to do a show on them or not! that’s the whole point! We do not know what really happened — between agents, and publicists, and executives!