Dr Phil, This isn't in regard to one of your shows, but I'm hoping you can help. I'm heart broken about what has happened to the beautiful Gosselin family. the media is destroying a marriage, and a family. How sad that this poor family can't go out of the safety of their home without scum photographers photoing their every move, the press slamming every move they make, turning what should be innocent social time into something seedy and immoral. A night out for a breath of air with eight children should not have to be tabloid front page fodder. I googled "Jon and Kate" today, The prediction to sell more of their trash is that , a "DIVORCE announcement is coming soon." "Kate has seen an attorney and seperation is immenent." What ever happened to privacy? Who the hell thinks they have the right to smear a marriage and cause emotional trauma that may never heal to 8 young, innocent children to make a buck?
Until people stop buying these rag publications, then people like Jon and Kate will never be able to lead normal lives. I think these trashy publications ought to be used to line litter boxes and nothing more.
How sad, that in order to chronicle the lives of their children as they grow up, their personal lives have been so invaded that it has cost them their marriage. I think their plan to forever chronicle the lives of their children was wonderful. To have on video tape every moment of your children as they grow is a cherished historical treasure. Who ever knew that their plan would end up like this? I'm sure they didn't.
Can you help Dr Phil? I firmly believe a marriage isn't over until everything is done to save it. If it means that TV contracts need to be broken, so be it. This family is too beautiful, the personal pain is visible in the eyes of Jon and Kate. Can you offer to help them? Can you encourage the public with your power to stop buying trashy tabloids? How very tragic that we as a people have to satisfy some perverse need to be in the lives of others for some sick thrill. A family is at sake here. It's too much to lose.
To Jon and Kate, your lives, your children, the family you have created out of the love you have for each other isn't worth any television program. I think you should terminate your television contract, go somewhere where you can put your lives back together and find the love that brought you together to begin with. I hope you can find a way to find the love, hopes and dreams that were meant to be.