DR. Phil apologized after he admitted he used “bad examples” on Laura Ingraham’s show Thursday night when he compared the coronavirus pandemic to swimming pool deaths.
Phil McGraw, 69, received mass backlash immediately after he slammed stay-at-home orders amid the global health crisis, saying we “don’t shut down the country” for drownings or car crashes.
The TV doctor - who is not licensed to practice - explained his comments on a YouTube livestream posted to his account on Friday. “Last night, I said we as a society have chosen to live with certain controllable deadly risks every day - smoking, auto crashes, swimming,” he said.