It aired last night, made for very uncomfortable viewing

Mar 12, 2015 11:54 GMT  ·  By

After almost a couple of weeks of unconfirmed reports and official teaser videos, the Dr. Phil episode featuring Bobbi Kristina Brown’s boyfriend Nick Gordon, which doubled as an intervention for him to go to rehab, aired last night.

It was perhaps one of the saddest, disastrous interviews ever shown on television, which made for very uncomfortable viewing at home. Nick Gordon came across as a young man with mental issues, struggling with addiction, while Dr. Phil and even Nick’s mother Michelle were the vultures circling around him, hoping to get a spot in the limelight.

Nick was out of it for the entire “interview”

The episode was divided into 2 different parts: a chat with Michelle Gordon, who has been estranged from Nick after she had to give him up because she couldn’t afford to have a baby, as per her own words. Nick had previously said that his mother abandoned him, so that’s how he came to be “adopted” by Whitney Houston (she never filed papers, though).

Michelle cried and begged Dr. Phil for help with Nick, who, she believed, was serious about wanting to take his own life after what happened to Bobbi Kristina / Krissi, who has been in a coma since January 31.

Then Dr. Phil went to fetch Nick, who was in another room, waiting to be called over. He had no idea his mother would be there and he had no idea that this wasn’t going to be an interview but an intervention to get him to rehab.

He was out of it most of the time, switching between moods at the drop of a hat, storming out, crying and sobbing, slurring his words and failing to stay on topic. This was not a man who should have been put on camera.

Embedded below are just 2 videos from the interview: Jezebel has longer clips that show just how out of it Gordon was. At one point, in the elevator, he even pleads with Dr. Phil not to put this on camera because he doesn’t want the world to see him crying, to think he’s weak.

Dr. Phil does it anyway.

Episode doesn’t sit well with viewers at home

Dr. Phil is no stranger to this type of interventions, but even so, many viewers felt that he crossed a line in this particular case.

First of all, Nick Gordon has issues, there’s no denying that. He shouldn’t be put in the spotlight, he should have just gotten the help he needed in private, without Dr. Phil pointing a camera at him and riding Gordon’s coattails to even more fame.

Even Gordon, as out of it as he is on drugs and alcohol, finds that hilarious: in one scene, he laughed and pointed at Dr. Phil, telling his mother and no one in particular, “Oh my gosh, I made him more famous. Let’s do this!”

Then, there’s the question of the ongoing police investigation into the events before the moment Krissi was found face-down in the bathtub of her home.

According to Leolah Brown, Krissi’s aunt, “We have strong evidence of foul play. Until this investigation is completed by law enforcement, I would ask that you or anyone else not provide this individual a platform to spin this situation to his benefit.”

This follows reports that police had Gordon as the main target of the criminal investigation they’re conducting right now. Dr. Phil didn’t even address Leolah’s plea, let alone consider the possibility of not airing the episode.