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January 23, 2007, 11:43 am PST

What???

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 I too created a profile because of this episode, partially because I have a little different perspective in the situation. 

I heard about Shannon being on Dr Phil when I went home for the holidays and a friend told me she had seen this episode, I was intrigued, and did a little research.  I went to school with Shannon in middle school and high school, except the year she was in Mexico (we were told she had gone to a special boarding school back east).  We weren't really friends, exactly, but I knew her quite well because my friends put up with her better than most people in our class.  She was manipulative in middle school (6-8 grade).  She was obnoxious, overly dramatic, couldn't keep a secret, and had an attitude of "you have to like me because my mom is sick".  We felt sorry for her, but at 14 didn't have the empathy to look past her shortcomings and really be her friend (although looking back, every 14-yr-old is manipulitve and obnoxious to some degree).  Her mom died the end of 8th grade, and it was shoking, the first of our group to lose a parent.  When her dad got remarried, we were shocked because it was so very soon.  She disappeared right after that. 

When she came back, she had these horror stories of the things her dad and stepmom had done and what had happened at that school.  We thought she was just being overly dramatic.  Sure, we had met her dad and step-mom before (in our community, pretty much everyone knows everyone, especially since her mom and later her dad were on the school board).  We knew her dad was a wimp, and her step-mom was crazy and domineering, but surely they weren't that bad.  Turns out maybe they were.

I'm not pointing fingers, and I was mostly outside the situation.  I personally think that Shannon has a difficult personality and so does her stepmother.  They clashed (obviously), and things escalated into what you all saw on the show.  I think that everyone in that family made mistakes, and it's going to take a lot of hard work and forgiveness from everyone to resolve the problem.

True narcissists are habitual liars.  Shannon was and is a narcissist.   She fooled Dr. Phil and Dr. Phil fooled you.  Yes, I know her too and she continues to tell lies and embellishes the truth about her family.  She does it for attention. 

 
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February 14, 2007, 7:22 am PST

MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU....

Erica and Rachael,

 

My heart goes out to both of you.  I was really moved by both of your viewpoints and can understand both of your viewpoints on how you want to live the rest of your lives, dealing with this.  It's your choice.  A more tragic life event, I cannot imagine.  My hope is that this doesn't tare you both apart.  Please try to respect each other's decision because you only have each other.  At the same time, I respect your father for appearing on the show.  Must have been terribly difficult for him too.  It seems like he's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't. 

 

Anyway...kudos for you girls in the highest regard.

 
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May 11, 2007, 5:08 pm PDT

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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wow i cant beleive what i just read, i thought jeffery was going to follow this through to the end, getting help i mean, well i guess he did in a way just not the help he wanted, boy oh boy i bet rite about now hes wishin his letter was one that didnt make it to you dr phil, ill be watching i got to see how this ends up.

JENNIFER,

 

MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN....HE'S LIKE A RAPID DOG!!!  THE LAWS, IN THIS COUNTRY, ARE WAY TOO LAX.  MOST MEN LIKE HIM WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN WOUND UP IN ANY FACILITY UNLESS THEY ARE A DANGER TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS.  YET, OUT LAWS DO NOT PREVENT MEN LIKE THIS FROM KILLING THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHER IN A HEARTBEAT WITH NO PRIORS AND NO INDICATION THAT THEY WOULD DO THIS.  NOT EVEN APPEARING ON A DR. PHIL SHOW WOULD OR COULD PREVENT SUCH A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. 

 

GOD HELP YOU AND GOD HELP THIS PATHETIC SYSTEM WE HAVE, THAT ALLOWS THESE KIND OF LUNATICS TO CARRY ON.

 

DR. PHIL...YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE POWER TO GET OUR LAWS CHANGED.  YOU DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO PROTECT JENNIFER AND HER CHILDREN.  BUT YOU DO HAVE SOME INFLUENCE.  CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO THE SUPREME COURT WITH WHAT POWER YOU DO HAVE.  USE YOUR CONNECTIONS TO ALTER THESE LAX LAWS.  HAVE MORE SHOWS ON THIS SUBJECT AND SUBJECT THESE LUNATICS FOR WHAT THEY ARE.  THOUSANDS OF WOMEN ARE JENNIFER.  THOUSANDS MORE ARE DEAD.  THOUSANDS MORE DIE EARLY FROM STRESS.

 

PEOPLE, WE NEED TO WAKE UP HERE.  THIS IS AN ATROCITY THAT MAKES ME FEEL AS IF I LIVE IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.  COME ON...FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOLUNTEER FOR YOUR LOCAL WOMEN'S SHELTER.  LOBBY YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.  MAKE A LITTLE DIFFERENCE AND MAYBE, TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!! 

 

 
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September 19, 2007, 3:34 pm PDT

CONTINENTAL AND SOUTHWEST...

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I saw the same show and this was exactly my thought.  If we all saw her underwear on national TV, I can't blame the people on Southwest, probably flying with their children, for complaining about her.  Her and her mother should be embarrassed that this happened and apologizing to the people on Southwest, not going on TV.  SHAME

 

Another reason not to fly...I have watched AIRLINE, the show on TV and am appalled how they treat people who get bumped, or have had a couple of drinks.  And now they are being randomly selective in not letting people fly who are dressed quite appropriately, and kicking mother's with children off their plane.  This is crazy.  These two airlines, and probably many more, have made flying a nightmare in many cases, as if 9/11 hasn't done enough.  I don't fly anymore.  I don't want to have to get to the airport 2 hours ahead of time and wait.  I don't want to face the high percentage of delayed flights.  I don't want to face the possibility of getting stuck on an airplane for hours or to get bumped.  And, if I lose my ticket, they would make me pay for another one, when they have the technology to verify that I already paid for one, and should just issue another one.  They don't accept doctor's excuses anymore, so if people are sick they fly anyway and try to cover up their sickness and the rest of the passengers wind up getting sick too.  It's ludricous!!! 

 

Airlines, like the rest of corporate America, think they can do exactly what they want to consumers.  Ever tried to communicate effectively with cell phone companies??  It's a nightmare.  This needs to stop.  I applaud anybody who files a lawsuit for being treated like the guests here.  It's about time, and it needs to stop.

 

Oh, and if I decide to ever fly again, I  will try Virgin Atlantic. 

 
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September 19, 2007, 3:55 pm PDT

Move on??

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 Saw show.  Liked show.  Kyla is, no doubt, a very beautiful woman.  No one can argue with that.  (I am a female btw.)  It just appears to me she may have been using her 15 minutes of fame hoping to gain someones attentinon and get her free ticket on the infamous money train, not an airline. 

 

Will she follow thru with a lawsuit?  Most likely.  It probably won't cost her a dime as her attorney also appeared over zealous to become the next "Johnny Cochran". 

 

I hope she has the maturity level to accept the apology she received and move on.  Sometimes, that is just all we get in life.  An apology.  And some people just have the foresigh, knowledge, skills and ability to accept that. 

 

Perhaps she can use her 2 free Virgin Atl tickets and fly to Hollywood....

 

 

I don't want  Kyla to move on...because I don't want this to happen to me or to anyone else.   She may profit from the law suit - so??  More importantly we will all profit because maybe, (and that's a BIG maybe), these corporate bullys will stop.  If they treated passengers with more respect, they'd have more business.  Yet they whine because they're not making profit.  Are they THAT stupid?  They overbook and inconvenience thousands of passengers a year and wonder why more people don't fly.  The airports have bars, and expect passengers to wait around for hours for delayed flights.  Then, when passengers have a couple of drinks and are not unruly, they won't let them board.  Is this nuts or what???  I think a huge class action lawsuit is in order and all the people who have ever been treated terribly by the airlines should force them to change for the better.  I'll take having to look at someone who's dressed inappropriately, and I'll listen to a a bawling kid, and I'll sit next to a sticking person anyday.  It beats getting treated like these women got treated.  Only a nation of sheep would put up with this.

 
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September 20, 2007, 2:13 pm PDT

09/18 Etiquette

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What kind of business are you in?    People get inconvienced all the time, it happens.  Are you going to try to get a class action lawsuit going against Wal-Mart because their employee didn't know what aisle the shampoo was on?  What about everyone who has ever been given the wrong meal at a restaurant?!?

What is happening to America?  Why can an apology not be accepted?  Why do we have to constantly clog up our judicial system with these frivoulous lawsuits?  How important do you think this lawsuit would be if you had a loved one who was murdered and awaiting trial, only for it to take years because poor little Kyla got her feelings hurt? Look at the big picture!  There are far worse things happening before our very eyes. Why is everyone so sue happy?  Accept an apology!!!  It shouldn't have to cost an arm and a leg to say that you are sorry. People make mistakes, surely you have?!?

We're talking corporations here.  One airline apologized - months later - on the Dr. Phil show.  This is extreme!!!  A consumer shouldn't have to get to that point, on national TV, in order to be satisfied.  Corporate America is scamming us in every direction - i.e., phone companies, health insurance companies,  + 1000 etc.'s.  Customer service is getting worse by the year.  Corporate America is not only violating our rights and our pocketbooks...they are invading and violating the moral fiber of this nation and we're letting them!!!   We have to "clog up our judicial system"  in order to stand up for ourselves.  If we didn't, you'd currently be totally controlled by our government and by big business.  Both entities are carving away at our freedoms bit by bit, every day.  You're talking apples and oranges when you mentioned Wal Mart as a comparison.  This wasn't an "inconvenience" these women suffered.  This was an antrocity that violated human dignity and freedom.  This IS the big picture!!  And, if people like you think THIS situation is an "inconvenience", just wait until it's your turn.  I guarantee you will feel violated!!!
 

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