A teenage rapper who hit infamy with a wild appearance at Dr. Phil in 2016 claims that she was abused in a bootcamp for troubled teens that the TV psychiatrist sent her.
Danielle Bregoli, who participated in the counseling program with her mother – in an episode entitled “I Want to Give Up My Car – Theft, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-year-old daughter who tried to frame me for a crime” – was taken to the Utah’s Turn-About Ranch in the middle of the night by two “transporters,” according to a video she posted on her YouTube page on Friday.
Upon arriving, Bregoli, now 18, said she was put in a tent and forced to stay awake for days.
“You have to sit there for three days,” she said. “They didn’t let me lie down for anything. Like, I was falling asleep and they said, ‘Oh, get up, get up.’ So, I’m just sitting here, like, ‘This is going to be really bad,’ when I see that these people have no sympathy. “
Bregoli, who performs under the name Bhad Bhabie, spoke as part of the “Breaking the Code of Silence” movement, which seeks to spread awareness about alleged abuse and mistreatment of children at Utah facilities and other similar programs.
In February, a Colorado woman, Hannah Archuleta, sued the facility and accused an employee of sexually assaulting it. Archuleta, who was also sent to the ranch after appearing on the Dr. Phil show, claimed that she was punished when she reported the alleged abuse.
Bregoli addressed Archuleta’s allegations in the video and demanded an apology from Dr. Phil.
“Dr. Phil, I’m going to give you from now until April 5th to apologize, not just to me, but to Hannah or any other child you sent to Turn-About or any other program like this, and if you don’t, I will deal with things my way, ”she said.
Archuleta performed after Paris Hilton revealed in her documentary “This is Paris” that she was physically, verbally and emotionally abused at Utah boarding school, Provo Canyon.