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Dr. Phil Cancels Britney Intervention Show

Dr. Phil is in huge trouble. After announcing that he spent an hour with Britney Spears at Cedar Sinai hospital and that she needed immediate medical and psychological intervention, it was revealed that he only spent 15 minutes with her and that she didn't want to meet with him. To make things worse, it turns out he was trying to get her to appear on his tv show in some kind of "gotcha!" live intervention thing with all the Spears family.

The backlash over his unethical behavior has begun and now Dr. Phil has had to cancel his proposed Britney Trainwreck Show.

In a statement posted Monday on his Web site, McGraw said the 26-year-old pop star's situation was "too intense" for him to go forward with the show. He didn't say whether he planned to reschedule. Spears was hospitalized Thursday night after a child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline resulted in an hours-long standoff with police. On Friday, a court commissioner gave sole physical and legal custody of 1-year-old Jayden James and 2-year-old Sean Preston to Federline.

McGraw said he met with Spears for an hour Saturday before she left the hospital. But according to TMZ, Dr. Phil showed up in Spears' hospital room on Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles without the pop star's invitation. She had been admitted on late Thursday after a custody confrontation at her home that ended in hysterics by the troubled pop star, several media outlets reported.

Sources told TMZ that Spears' parents, Lynne and James, were the ones who asked Dr. Phil to help her. When he entered Spears' room, she reportedly walked out and returned later. Sources say he tried to speak to Spears for 15 minutes and later followed the star out to her car as she left the hospital.

Dr. Phil has been lambasted in the press by psychiatrists and mental health professionals for trying to get publicity from someone who is clearly suffering from a medical disorder. For shame, Dr. Phil!

Posted on January 7, 2008

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