EXCLUSIVE: Choosing Hope: Taylor Odlozil On Haley's Final Days
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.4 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phil explores the topic of grief and the power of choosing to find hope after loss. For the first time since his wife Haley’s death, Taylor Odlozil, whose story was followed by over 90 million people on Tik Tok, opens up about the day of Haley’s death, his darkest moments, how he prepared their son for her passing, and finding hope and his new life as a single dad. Julie, the internet’s “favorite hospice nurse” is the author of Nothing to Fear, shares the miraculous things she’s witnessed in her work and why we need to normalize conversations about death and dying.
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| 0:00.0 | His wife Haley's story of living with and dying from ovarian cancer received over 160 million views on social media. |
| 0:09.0 | A lot of people have wanted to talk to you about this. |
| 0:11.0 | I wanted to come on here and continue to preach what she taught me about life. |
| 0:16.0 | That was the biggest burden I've ever carried of knowing her fate. |
| 0:20.0 | She says, I can't give you kids, but I can give you a son. |
| 0:23.5 | What were the final words Haley told your son Weston |
| 0:26.6 | before she passed? |
| 0:44.3 | We're talking about a topic that while hard to discuss, impacts us all. Death, loss, and grieving. |
| 0:48.3 | But the face of grief and how we deal with it is changing. |
| 0:52.3 | These days, younger generations are taking the social media |
| 0:56.1 | platforms to share their pain. They're doing it more openly and directly. Now Taylor |
| 1:03.2 | O'Dhle-Zil is one of those people. His wife Haley's story of living with and dying |
| 1:10.5 | from ovarian cancer |
| 1:11.6 | received over 160 million views on social media. |
| 1:16.6 | Now, they made the decision to share their journey together. |
| 1:20.6 | In a TV exclusive, Taylor is here to share Haley's final days, |
| 1:25.6 | how he found hope after her death, and his life now |
| 1:30.3 | as a single father. |
| 1:32.3 | When I first saw Haley, I took my breath away. We dated all through high school, college. |
| 1:39.3 | Ten years ago, I proposed to her. |
| 1:41.3 | It's a beautiful day. Taylor and Haley, take New York. A year after we got |
| 1:46.6 | engaged, she was having some health issues and gaining weight. And so she went to the doctor and |
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