you have had countless success stories over the years. one example, in 2017, a woman, a girl named bethany came on the show. she had committed a lot of crimes to feed her addiction. here she is on that show. and then a year later. take a look. i work with law enforcement a lot. and you have confessed to a number of crimes here. you could either not do drugs in a treatment center, or you could not do drugs in jail. you want to take this help? bethany is nine months sober as she sits here today. how do you feel? i feel really good. you feel good physically as well? physically, mentally. is that basically what you do? cut through the bull and make
terrific witness. and we mock tried the case and studied the case and got it to the point where we could tell the truth effectively. and were able to win about the case up there and ultimately oprah said, i ve always promised my viewers that anything i found that really impacted my life that i considered a value, i would share. whether it was a hair dryer or a book or a person or whatever. i want to share with you dr. phil. so she brought me on the show, and it kind of all started from there, and the rest of the was history. you did several shows this year about the alex murdaugh trial, on trial and convicted for killing his wife and his son. what was your read on him? and do you have any doubt that he was guilty? i don t have any doubt that he was guilty.
you bullied that boy. one of the most recognizable faces on daytime television. nobody tells me who to put on my show, including you. is calling it quits. dr. phil, dr. phil! tonight, before dr. phil leaves the studio, he s sitting down with us. dr. phil, welcome. to talk about his 20 years as the on-call doc for on-camera drama. who do you get along with? just as the surgeon general releases a report on the harms of social media it is urgent that we take action. dr. phil digs into america s growing mental health crisis, especially among teenagers. young people started watching people live their lives instead of living their own lives. and later it s the tonight show with jay leno! comedian jay leno s road to recovery after surviving a garage fire and a motorcycle crash. i never thought of myself as a roast comic. who gives us the latest on
fiction recently said it ll be called the movie critic. the story line takes place in late 70s los angeles and it s based on the real-life story of a movie critic for a important graphic magazine. last fall tarantino told me why he s wrapping up his directing career, while still at the top of his game. you say that your next movie, your tenth, is going to be your last. uh-huh. why? you re making great movies. oh, thank you. well, it s i ve been doing it for a long time. i ve been doing it for 30 years, and it s time to wrap up the show. you know, it s i ve done it i ve given my i ve given my whole life to it, you know. i didn t start a family until late in life. i ve been i ve always kind of equated if you re doing movies on, you know, on the level that i ve been doing,
i started guest hosting in 86. and i guest hosted for five years. i was the only guest host. the reason i got to be guest host was this is a classic example of this is why i didn t have an agent. i had an agent call me. they were like, six or seven other comedians that were rotating guest hosts all handled by the same manager. and that manager called me, we d like to handle you too. and i said, well, i m okay. he goes, we re going to be asking $25,000 a show to host, we can get you $25,000 a show. i said, you know, i m doing it for $512, which is scale. he goes, well. i said, i m going to keep doing it for $512. because i knew johnny owned the show. when you have guest hosts, the ratings are all pretty close to the same. but at the end of the month, let s see. why did we spend $100,000, we could get this guy for $512? that s how i became the