Dr. Phil Stands By His Troubling 2016 Interview With Shelley Duvall

Dr. Phil McGraw is speaking retired astir the backlash that ensued pursuing his wide panned 2016 interrogation with histrion Shelley Duvall.

Appearing connected CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” past week, the big of CBS’s “Dr. Phil” stood by his determination to behaviour the televised interrogation with Duvall, who acknowledged having a intelligence unwellness connected air.

“I don’t regret what I did,” McGraw told Wallace. “I regret that it was promoted successful a mode that radical thought was unbecoming.”

He went connected to note: “We worked with her family. We worked with her for implicit a year, off-camera, aft that fact, providing her opportunities for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care. I can’t archer you the grade we went through.”

Watch Dr. Phil McGraw’s chat with CNN’s Chris Wallace below.

During her interrogation with Dr. Phil, Duvall claimed that her erstwhile “Popeye” co-star Robin Williams, who died by termination successful 2014, was inactive live and a shapeshifter.

“I’m precise sick. I request help,” said the actor, champion known for her portrayal of Wendy Torrance successful “The Shining.”

Not surprisingly, the occurrence was met with widespread condemnation from Duvall’s fans arsenic good arsenic intelligence wellness advocates. Among those who spoke retired was Vivian Kubrick, the girl of “The Shining” manager Stanley Kubrick, who blasted the “exploitative” interrogation arsenic “appallingly cruel.”

In his chat with Wallace, McGraw suggested that galore of his critics would’ve been amended served by attempting to intervene connected Duvall’s behalf directly.

“The radical that were captious of it, cipher ever asked them what they ever did to effort and assistance her,” helium said. “And the reply is not a damn thing.”

In 2021, Duvall appeared to regret her “Dr. Phil” appearance, telling The Hollywood Reporter: “I recovered retired the benignant of idiosyncratic helium is the hard way.”

Duvall precocious returned to acting aft a 21-year hiatus successful “The Forest Hills,” an autarkic fearfulness film. Speaking to People successful March to beforehand the movie, she said she enjoyed the acquisition of being connected acceptable erstwhile again and hinted that she plans to prosecute much acting projects successful the future.

“[Jessica Tandy] won an Oscar erstwhile she was 80,” she told the publication. “I tin inactive win.”