A teenage rapper who shot Dr Phil with a wild look in 2016 claims she was abused at a bootcamp for difficult teens who sent her the TV shrink.
Danielle Bregoli, who performed with her mother in the counseling program – in an episode titled ‘I want to give up my 13-year-old daughter who steals my car, carries knives, and who tries to frame me for a crime’ – is in the taken to Turn-About Ranch in Utah by two “carriers” in the middle of the night, according to a video she posted on her YouTube page on Friday.
Upon her arrival, Bregoli, now 18, said she was placed in a tipi and forced to stay awake for days.
“You have to sit there for three days,” she said. “They do not let me go to bed for nothing. Like I fell asleep and like, ‘Oh, get up, get up.’ So I sit here like, ‘This is going to be really bad’, when I see that these people have no sympathy. ‘
Bregoli, acting under the name Bhad Bhabie, has spoken out as part of the “Breaking Code Silence” movement, which seeks to spread awareness of alleged abuse and mistreatment of children in the Utah facility and other similar programs.
In February, a woman from Colorado, Hannah Archuleta, sued the institution, accusing a staff member of sexually assaulting her. Archuleta, who was also sent to the farm after she was in the Dr. Phil show appeared, claiming she was punished when she reported the alleged abuse.
Bregoli addressed Archuleta’s allegations in the video and an apology from dr. Phil asked.
“Dr. Phil, I’m going to apologize to you from now until April 5, not only for me, but also for Hannah or any other child you sent to Turn-About or any other program like this, and if you do not do it I will handle things my way, ”she said.
Archuleta came to the fore after Paris Hilton revealed in her documentary “This is Paris” that she was physically, verbally and emotionally abused at the Provo Canyon boarding school in Utah.