I couldn't agree more. What an asshole! He refers to plenty of programs, mostly in Utah.
His background is pretty friggin sketchy. Got out of psychology because of an "inappropriate" relationship with a client. A client who was young and pretty and vulnerable. Hmmmmmmm.
IMO, he runs very close to the definition of a malignant narcissist, just as Miller Newton. Carmel's right. Phil very well could have been a program guru.
This is just a blog, but the facts are true nonetheless.
http://www.craigandsam.com/PhilDr. Phil Phacts and Phiction.
Myth #3 His first marriage to his high school sweetheart ended with a mutual parting of the ways. Not even close,
according to his first wife, who claims she left him because of his infidelity.
Myth #4 After a football injury in Tulsa, he transferred to Texas college and continued his education. This
statement appears in almost every biography of Phil. It implies that he transferred directly from Tulsa to a college in Texas
and continued his education. However, if reports from his first wife are accurate, Phil went into the health spa business and
the couple lived in Kansas. The "transfer" took about three years. During that time he narrowly escaped charges for his
questionable business practices. His health spa schemes reportedly ripped off so many people, laws were rewritten to change
the rules in Kansas for running health spas. Phil ended up leaving town in the middle of the night to escape his financial and
mounting legal problems. Many other schemes have surfaced over the years according to these stories from various sources.
Phil went to school and played football in Mission, Kansas. His high school sweetheart, Debbie Higgins (McCall) was a
cheerleader. In a rare interview, she reveals the they both graduated in 1968. She went to Southwest Missouri State in
Springfield, while Phil went to the University of Tulsa on a football scholarship. She could only afford one year of collage, so
after that year, she returned home to Roeland Park, Kansas. Phil had also moved closer to family after a football injury. His
father had begun practicing psychology in Texas, so Phil moved to Texas. Phil asked Debbie to move to Lubbock, where he
had taken a job at a health spa. In November of 1970 they returned to Roeland Park to get married in Debbie's childhood
church. Eventually, they moved to Topeka, where Phil built and owned a health spa. The marriage ended when friends and
neighbors questioned his commitment to the marriage. "When I confronted him about his infidelities he didn't deny these girls
and told me that it had nothing to do with his feelings toward me, to grow up, that's the way it was in the world," McCall said.
She left him in 1973 and moved back to Kansas City.
