The Dr Phil Show is no stranger to sparking controversy among its viewers, and a recent story involving a young mother living a double life as a prostitute has sparked a frenzy on social media. Mercedes, 24, revealed a dark secret on the daytime show after appearing to play happy families with her ex-soldier husband of six years, Andrew, and their two children.
The young family seemed to have it all in their seven-bedroom house, but their life was ripped apart after Mercedes dark secret was revealed to her oblivious loved ones.
And her disturbing secret disrupted family life so much that she was kicked out of the marital home, away from her two children. She has now admitted to drinking a bottle of vodka a day and insists she is tired of living a double life, but her husband is dubious. She said on the show: "I have been living a lie my entire life. If you saw me on Facebook you would see the American dream. The truth is I have been an escort since about It was also revealed on the show that the couple's second child is not biologically Andrew's.
She continued to tell Dr Phil: "I met Andrew about six years ago and he had no idea. He thought I was stripping for a private agency, which was a lie," she continued. My son is actually a client's child from escorting. Mercedes tells the audience and Dr Phil what she wants to confess, and claimed that she had a sugar daddy at the ages of 14 and 16 and lived in fancy houses and drove expensive cars.
On what she's coming clean about, she said: "Being an escort, a horrible wife. I had sex with one of his family members. I was addicted to alcohol. I cheated on him while he was deployed for seven months.
