Danielle Bregoli, the 18-year-old viral star who became a rapper who serves for Bhad Bhabie, presented allegations of physical and mental abuse at a teenage home where she was sent after appearing Dr. Phil in 2016. In an eight-minute video posted on his YouTube channel on Friday under the hashtag #BreakingCodeSilence, Bregoli shared his support for Hannah Archuleta, a former teenager at the Turn-About Ranch in Escalante, Utah, who is now suing the negligent installation after alleged sexual assault by a team member in 2019. Archuleta, like Bregoli, was sent to Turn-About Ranch after appearing in Dr. Phil. Bregoli starts the video by begging Dr. Phil to issue an apology, “not just for me, but for Hannah and any other kids you sent to Turn-About or any other program like this”. Dr. Phil sent Archuleta to Turn-About Ranch after being the site of a murder reported in 2017, while Bregoli was there, which she says was “traumatic” for young residents.
In the video, Bregoli gives testimony about how she was sent to the farm by transporters “who arrive in the middle of the night. They do not say where they are going. They just take them, handcuff them, put them in the car. It’s basically like kidnapping. “Bregoli says that on the farm” they take privileges out of necessity, like sleeping in bed, eating good food, not feeling cold “. Bregoli says he witnessed children being forcibly restricted, “what is against the law, you shouldn’t touch children”, and that “if you reported another child being bullied by their peers or something, they would just say, ‘well maybe be it what they need ‘or something. ”The punishments included being subjected to manual and cold work. “You are not even feeding them or letting them sleep in decent conditions. Just doing things that no one would like them to do to their children and children who are so helpless, ”says Bregoli. “This is the thing about these places. You have no proof. You don’t have a phone there. There are no cameras there. There is no evidence. “
Bregoli’s stories echo Paris Hilton’s own experiences in a residential installation for teenagers, as explored in his 2020 documentary This is Paris. In fact, Archuleta’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, said that Hilton’s documentary was what inspired Archuleta to speak. The Turn-About Ranch website has a 2010 blog post called “Turn-About Ranch Featured on Dr. Phil,”Disclosing his relationship with the host of the program. After Bregoli’s video aired, Dr. Phil forgot to answer, instead he spent Friday night tweeting about Drag Race.