
Two Amandas
The Two Amandas
When Dr. Phil last saw Amanda G. several months ago, she was walking away from the airport — away from help. But after being back on the streets for two weeks, she had a change of heart and agreed to go to rehab, along with her friend, Amanda T.
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“When I first met Amanda, it was like instant best friends,” Amanda T. says. “The crowd that Amanda and I were running with was extremely dangerous — drug dealers, pimps.” Amanda T. says their drug use was out of control. “Amanda and I could never get high enough.” She says that she and Amanda G. overdosed on drugs at least four times a week, during which they would suffer from seizures and convulsions. “We were just sick — so sick.”
Angie Spivey, who helped transport both Amandas to treatment, says the women's lives were in danger. “I saw two girls who would be dead within weeks,” she says of the night the women arrived for transport.
Watch as both women are transported to rehab after a night of heavy drug use. And, see how Amanda G. is doing now.
Saving Molly
Kathy says she recently found out her 17-year-old daughter, Molly, was prostituting herself, after discovering an online sex advertisement with the teen’s photo attached to it. “A friend of Molly’s sent me a message on Facebook, letting me know that Molly was being recruited to start an escort service,” she says. Kathy believes a male friend pressured Molly into prostitution.“I was struggling with money, and I needed to get out of my parents’ house,” Molly explains. She says her friend, whom she met at a rave, brought up the idea of her becoming an escort. After deciding to go through with it, she says she went by the name “Candie,” and charged $200 for a half hour and $300 for a full hour. Kathy says she started tracking her daughter’s phone and ultimately found her and her friend at a motel. She says she called police and had Molly’s alleged pimp arrested.
“That * everything up,” Molly says of the arrest. “We had plans to make more money, and how are you supposed to do that when your partner is in jail?” She says she was only a prostitute for one week.
Kathy says she has filed a restraining order to keep Molly’s alleged pimp away from her daughter — but both he and Molly have violated the order, twice resulting in his arrest. “I couldn’t let go of him,” Molly says. “I didn’t want to.”

Dr. Phil asks Mark what his strategy is for bringing Molly back, and he admits, “I really don’t have a master plan. I don’t think anyone could have a master plan or a road map.”
“I would suggest a master plan, actually,” Dr. Phil tells Mark. “I would hope that maybe we could all work together to come up with a plan.”
Extra Content
- To find a treatment center in your area, go to findtreatment.samhsa.gov.
- National Drug Facts Week
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- NIDA for Teens
- Drugs: Shatter the Myths
- Advice for Parents of Troubled Teens
- Dr. Phil Help Resources
- Officer Ed Moffat, Newport News Police Department
- Angie Spivey
- Ben Levenson
- Velvet Mangan
- Polycom