Dr. Phil Had To Start Over, Says Attorney
Charles Babcock, Dr. Phil’s lawyer, told a federal judge that filing for bankruptcy wasn’t his client’s “preferred course of action.” Instead, Babcock said, the TV host had “tried everything he could…to have his voice heard through Merit Street and not through a new entity, Envoy, which he’s had to build from the ground up.”
Dr. Phil, who recently accompanied an immigration raid in Chicago, had to launch Envoy to avoid being “silenced,” according to Babcock. The attorney continued:
Now you can agree or disagree with [Dr. Phil’s] voice and what he says. A lot of people agree. A lot of people find it fascinating. A lot of people like to hear and watch and listen to him, but it is a voice, and TBN was in the process of silencing that voice by refusing to comply with its commitment for distribution and by taking the actions that it did.
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TBN said it had been trying to handle the financial burdens imposed by Merit Street Media. But before the network could negotiate a solution, TBN claimed, MSM pulled the surprise move of filing for bankruptcy, trying to “shift blame for their failures to TBN.”
In its countersuit, the Christian network led by Matt Crouch expressed confidence that “the truth will set it free.” TBN added that Dr. Phil and his company will be “held accountable for their reprehensible conduct.”
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