From Dance Floor to Prison Walls: Abby Lee Miller
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Dr. Phil sits down with Abby Lee Miller to unpack her rise, downfall, prison time, and what redemption looks like now.
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| 0:00.0 | Mom's don't rule the dance studio, you idiot. |
| 0:05.0 | You can go to hell and take his last. |
| 0:07.0 | You know what, Abby? |
| 0:09.0 | You know they. |
| 0:10.0 | Get off your butt, walk over to Ross, and buy a ball. |
| 0:14.0 | The people that were in here dancing are a thousand times better than you. |
| 0:18.0 | The last solo I gave you, you choked, and you changed the choreography. Don't cry. There's always somebody else. I'm sorry. Your daughter is holding a national title and I will take it away in a minute. Please welcome Abby Lee Miller. |
| 0:42.3 | Abby, how are you? I'm great. Nice to meet you. |
| 0:44.3 | Good to meet you. |
| 0:45.3 | We'll help you switch over here. |
| 0:46.3 | Okay, should we do this? |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:50.3 | Everybody always asks, |
| 0:52.3 | when are you going to walk again? |
| 0:53.3 | Are you going to ever walk again? |
| 0:54.3 | I'm like, I'm walking right now. |
| 0:57.3 | Okay. |
| 0:58.1 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:05.6 | First, when we saw you on tape and all, you were up and moving around, |
| 1:09.8 | and now you're obviously managing a health |
| 1:12.4 | issue. We'll talk more about those challenges later and when it started and all of that. |
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