There is so much rotten
food in this house. She's hoarding eggs. Oh my goodness. I need to puke.
I need to get out. [vomiting] A dog doesn't even
want to live in this. This is filthy. You are going
to a nursing home. That's it. They don't like nothing
I do, so it don't matter. Throw it away. Throw me away. I wanted a stable
relationship. She married a convict. That turns my stomach. I started getting depressed. This is not the thing
you want hanging around. - What do you want me to do?
- We've been doing this-- What the [bleep]
do you want me to do? I feel that you have
brought your stuff up in here, barricaded yourself up in
here, preparing to die. I am. I'm tired of the woe-is-me. My husband-- I
buried two husbands. I'm not sitting up here
bitching about my life. It's time for us to get on
and get this house cleaned up. Mom, you've been making
everybody else live in your filth. Today it stops so you can go. You can go. Now, we can get to cleaning
up and stop stalling or you can go. Hey, somebody going
to get the back hoe? She want to dig her
grave and put her in it. CONSTANCE: My name is Constance
and I live in a small country town. They say I'm a hoarder. They say I'm a redneck. I'm going to say,
you're damn right. When you don't have nothing,
you give me something and I didn't have
to work for it, I didn't have to say, yes ma'am,
no ma'am, bend on my knees or get my back hurt,
then yes, I'm keeping it. I am Alicia and I'm
Constance's sister. The house is horribly dirty. There's clothes,
food everywhere. Never seen powdered mold before
until I went to her house. And I was like, oh my goodness. I'm Darlene, and
Constance is my sister. The trailer that
Constance lives in, you can't even get
in it because she has so much junk and groceries. CONSTANCE: I tell myself,
I get it to the door and I'm already tired
and stuff, that's where it's going to stay. I'm Angela and
Constance is my mother. My family said if she
was to die in the house, they would burn the house down. They wouldn't even try to
salvage anything out of it because that's how bad it is. DARLENE: I want her to
know that it's to the point to where I hate to say
that she's my sister. ANGELA: If my mother does
not get help this time, I will call the authorities
to have her removed. They want me gone. I said, well, I'm still alive. I'm not dead yet. If you want me gone, dig a hole. I guess I'll jump in is
the way I feel about it. Right now, I have about 15
chickens and several roosters and 25 guineas. I got three thinks
they're human. And they're going to sneak in
there as soon as my back is turned. Mama's in the house, so got
to be something good in there, so we going to go in there. ANGELA: If you go and get
the eggs from the hens, you have to go wash them and
put them up in the refrigerator so they don't spoil. Well, my mother has not
grasped that concept yet. She grabs the eggs and just
leaves them sitting everywhere. DARLENE: So it's like
an Easter egg hunt. And you don't know which
eggs are fresh and which ones aren't. My name is Ines and
Constance is my daughter. I would not sell
them to anybody. Matter of fact, I stopped
getting eggs up there because I know how
she's been doing things. Everybody's always hungry. So you wanted to eat, you
better hide you something to eat, because if you
didn't, you weren't going to get nothing to eat. ANGELA: She always said, I
didn't have nothing growing up, so now I can have it. But it's old food. DARLENE: It had just
sit there and get green. The stuff that she
wanted to hide, she hid it in her
little chicken houses. CONSTANCE: Yes, I hide food. Cause they trying to
throw my food away. They're not helping
me get no food here. They're not taking
me to the store. They're not asking
me if I needed food. No. And I know how to make food go
a whole year if I need to be. She has a tough stomach. My mother has a
real tough stomach. She can hold her food in. DARLENE: Penny and I have
actually got into a knock down, drag out fight, because
I've cleaned up some items and she became belligerent
and got in my face. Yes, it makes me mad. I say, you didn't buy that. If I come throw your
stuff away, you'll be wanting to shoot me
or throw me in the jail. Why are you messing with mine? DARLENE: The next thing you
know we were out rolling around outside. And she had a pan. And she hit me in the
head with the pan. And I had to take that pan
from her and hit her with it. INES: I had to come over
and they were fighting. And I had to go
and separate them. So you have to referee. ANGELA: I grew up with mostly
my grandmother, my auntie. I was always between houses. CONSTANCE: I work 12 hours. So they don't give you no time
off to go pick your kids up from the day care. My mom basically raised her. ALICIA: Angela knows
Constance is her mother, but I don't think she feels
like her mother has been a mother to her. She thinks she's-- she was
a good mother by leaving me everywhere and kicking me out. And I don't think that
relationship is going to ever be repaired. DARLENE: You know, she doesn't
realize the effect it has on everybody else, the
embarrassment that Angela's had to live with with a mother
that's hoarding everything all of her childhood. My mother does
not have a clue, and I don't think
she really cares. DARLENE: Penny she
needs to do better. She needs to get it cleaned up. And she can accept the
help or she can leave. JERI JO: My name is Jeri and
I'm an executive assistant. I love yard sales. I love garage sales. I love rummage sales. I go thrift store shopping
three to four times a week. I like to collect things. I don't know how it got
this out of control. I know I have way
too much stuff. I'm Cindy and I'm
Jeri's younger sister. Jeri's house is chaos. She can't find anything. She buys two and three
and four of the same item because she can never
find the first one, which is a constant struggle for
her living in the conditions in which she's living. MIKE: Hi, I'm Mike. I'm Jeri's brother-in-law
and I'm Cindy's husband. The inside of Jeri's house
is an absolute disaster. Her home is not safe. It's unhealthy. If her house caught fire,
it would be fully engulfed in a matter of minutes. If she doesn't clean it
up, I will call the health department. I'll call the fire department. I'll call the state
inspector, whatever it takes to get the job done. JERI JO: I would be mad. I'd be terribly mad. In fact, if the
authorities came, I wouldn't let
them in the house. My name is Cathy and
I'm Jeri's older sister. I haven't been in Jeri's
house in over 10 years. I have been there
to pick her up, but she waits for me outside. She just doesn't let me inside. CINDY: We've tried
to clean stuff, and she'll get
frustrated and mad. And there's always
something that stops us from completing it. MIKE: Jeri has a
temper when you try to give her suggestions on how
she could maybe help herself. Jeri needs to learn how
to support herself, stand on her own two feet, or
live with the consequences of her choices. JERI JO: I wanted a stable
relationship with a man that I knew wouldn't
hurt me or cheat on me. She married a convict. She met him through
a biker magazine. JERI JO: We've been married
almost 22 years now. I had to keep it a
secret for a long time because I knew my family would
never accept the fact that I was married to anyone in prison. MIKE: I'm a retired law
enforcement officer. It turns my stomach
that she brought this type of an individual
into our family. She married a guy
with a life sentence. I have real serious doubts that
he's going to be getting out very soon. CINDY: The unique thing
about Jeri's husband is that he's in prison, therefore
cannot be a husband to her, not one that can
be there for her. JERI JO: So I am very lonely. The loneliness has gotten worse
as the years have gone by. And without him, I just
don't feel complete. Things just started
accumulating. And I started getting into
more of a depressed state about the way my house was. And it just got to be
very, very overwhelming. It breaks my heart
that she lives like that. Living alone is bad enough,
but in conditions like that, it's got to weigh
on her every day. (CRYING) I just want to fix it
for her, and I don't know how. ANGELA: My mother has to
take one day at a time. I know that a lot of old
memories are going to flare up. There you go. Hi. I'm Dr. Greene. Hello. Nice to meet you. I'm Dr. Melva Green, a
board-certified psychiatrist specializing in anxiety
disorders and hoarding behaviors. CONSTANCE: These, I
call them my babies, but I look at them as
my source of income. MELVA GREEN: OK. CONSTANCE: Long as
I take care of them, they're going to
take care of me. OK. These animals represent
something she's been good at. She may not have been good
at raising her daughters, but this is something that
she's tremendously proud of. You know, when I listen
to you talk about this, it seems like it brings
you a lot of joy. CONSTANCE: I love animals. They're better than people. Really? They don't require you to do
nothing but feed them and give them a little water and
they're going to give you all the love they can give you. Whereas people-- People ain't going
to give you [bleep].. MELVA GREEN: Kind of believes
that people let her down, that they're generally
up to no good. Getting her to let go
of some of her things may open up a can of worms that
we haven't quite seen this yet. CONSTANCE: We'll
let you in first. MELVA GREEN: OK. I do see egg sort of all over
the place, so eggs there, eggs there. Do some of the eggs go
bad up in here like this? Yes. This is a bad egg, but
I cooks it for my puppy. Is that-- is that safe? It doesn't make your dog sick? Not if I cook it. MELVA GREEN: She's
brought up in poverty. This is a woman who,
at least in her mind, does not want to waste, because
if you waste, you don't eat. This right here I do use. - What would you do with that?
- That's salad. - That's salad?
- That's salad. OK. What, what,
what-- what's the-- I has to go lay down. I'm going to lay down. MELVA GREEN: Miss
Connie wants to stop. She blames it on the
pain in her back. I have no doubt
that she's obviously in some physical pain. But what I also
think is that there's a lot of emotional pain. We're getting into
the thick of things. This is hard for you. Mm-hmm. Because it's my stuff. I said, why is it
bothering everybody? MELVA GREEN: If I were to say
that I'm going to help you, would you believe that? CONSTANCE: My first
question would be, why? Why would you want to help me? MELVA GREEN: She's
quite suspicious. Her life experiences
said, you know, people either take from you or
they don't want you to have it. What if the answer
was because I care? CONSTANCE: And I
say, oh, yeah, right. I know what that means. MELVA GREEN: What
does that mean? Something I got
or something I want, you're going to
eventually end up with it. MELVA GREEN: This
entire process is going to be about trust building. Let me help you. Let me help you. OK. I'm Standolyn
Robertson and I'm a certified
professional organizer. I know that you guys
haven't been in the house in a couple years. I'm getting ready to take
Angela, Darlene, and Alicia into the home. I just want to take
you through the house and really see what's there. OK, let's go. Oh my God. Oh, my goodness. This is horrible. Ooh, it stinks. Oh my God. Oh, I don't want
to go any farther. Oh my God. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
It was surprising that they didn't realize
what it looked like in there. Oh, hell no. This is just wrong. Eggs? STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: The eggs. Are these the same eggs
that were here before? Those are the same eggs that
are here about a month ago. What will she
say about the eggs? Will she have a reason
we can keep them? She'll probably say
she's going to cook them. Cook them or hatch them. Why would you have
eggs in a cabinet? A cabinet. She's hoarding eggs. Oh my goodness. These are eggs. There's rotten eggs in there. It's not eggs now. They maybe have
started to hatch or-- [interposing voices] --on the inside. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: It
was hard for everyone. One sister is like, look,
I got a strong stomach, but I can't take this. I need-- I need to puke. I need to get out. [vomiting] We're very, very scared for
Jeri's health and well-being. If there was a fire in her house
right now and she was in it, there's no way out. - Hi, how are you?
- Good morning. I'm doing well.
How are you? Good morning. I'm Dr. Michael Tompkins. I'm Jeri. I'm Dr. Michael Tompkins and
I specialize in the treatment of OC spectrum disorders such
as OCD and hoarding disorder. This is the living
room, the bar area. I've just accumulated
so many things. It just has gotten completely
and totally out of control. Jeri Jo is a hoarder. She surrounds herself with
things, and in the process excludes people from her life. Tell me about this picture. Oh, this is a painting that
my husband had done for us. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Where is he? JERI JO: My husband
is incarcerated. He was involved in a fight
and a young man lost his life. He's been incarcerated
since he was 19. And he's how old? JERI JO: 54. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: And what
do you feel right now? It's just-- it's hard. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: What's
ironic about this situation is she's married to a
man who is in prison. It kind of created a prison in
which she can't let people in. In the next few days, you
know, people will be coming in, your family to help you and
other people to help you. So how would you feel if
all of this stuff was gone? I'd feel like I could
finally take a deep breath. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Jeri Joe is
someone who in the abstract is ready to do
this, but my concern is that when we get down
to the nitty gritty, like going through
things and letting go, the full weight
of her loneliness and her isolation and her
shame was going to hit her. COREY CHALMERS: My
name's Corey Chalmers. I'm an extreme hoarding
cleanup specialist. I'm going to take Jeri Jo
inside the house with her family and we're going to see how
Jeri Joe works and see how much she's willing to let go of. A lot of it's trash. A lot of it can be donated. OK. MIKE: Do you not
see a correlation between your marriage
and how you have to live? JERI JO: I knew it was
going to turn out like this. MIKE: You have a husband
that cannot provide for you. You have a husband that
takes money from you. You have a husband that can
never be there for you to help you with this home
to do things for you that a husband should do. JERI JO: If that's how you
feel, then you probably shouldn't be here helping me. It's all related, Jeri. JERI JO: OK, when
this is all over and you guys want to
cut me off, cut me off. ALICIA: I just
walked in the house and I threw up my
whole entire breakfast. I don't feel good. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
Think about it. Just because you
can use it doesn't mean you have to keep it. Then I wouldn't have it. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
Things are going so slow. I'm feeling really frustrated. That's my tea thing. Do not throw away. I make my tea with it. I know I'm going to
have my hands full. She's pretty much decided
that she can use everything. A lot of this is empty
boxes, believe it or not. OK, so they can
automatically go, right? I keep them for the
names of my TVs and stuff so if can fix-- No, no, no, no. The name of the TV is on the TV. We don't need these boxes. Every surface is filled
with perishables. We have eggs like this
all over the house. Yes. Why are they there? Like, help us understand. OK, so your goal was that a
little baby chicken was going to be born on the
side of the table? No, I put-- So you have your
incubator set up? Yes, I do. Where is it set up? It's on top of my bed, but
it needs to be cleaned out. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: There is so
much rotten food in this house. CONSTANCE: There's an apple. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: Pieces
of fruit that are petrified, a freezer filled with
meat and supplies-- she's stockpiling for the day
that she may not have anything. MELVA GREEN: This has you
in a very, very vulnerable, unsafe situation. If you were to get hurt and
you can't come out of house, who's going to come get you? I don't expect for
you to come get me. That's why I came home. MELVA GREEN: Can I
ask you a question? Did you come up in
here to just die? Yes, I did. MELVA GREEN: Because
that's what I feel. CONSTANCE: Yes, I did. I feel you've
thrown your hands up. I'm through. MELVA GREEN: Constance
has major depression. She's been suffering from
depression for a very, very long time. And that came up for the first
time, that really a lot of this has been about wanting to die. I feel that you have
brought yourself up in here, barricaded your-- listen to me.
Look at me. Look at me. Barricaded yourself up
in here preparing to die. CONSTANCE: Yeah, I am. That's what's going to happen. We can address this. Come on. It don't make no sense. OK, I'm tired of the woe-is-me. My husband-- I
buried two husbands. I'm not sitting up here
bitching about my life. It's time for us to get on
and get this house cleaned up. MELVA GREEN: This is a group
of women where strength means pulling yourself up
by the bootstraps. It means going on with life. A dog doesn't even
want to live in this. This is filthy. Yes, I make all
the wrong choices. ALICIA: But you lay
in self pity about it. Dust your ass off and get up. I done buried two
husbands and I'm still-- I'm still-- I'm still moving. They experience her saying,
you know, life is hard. I've had this happen to me. Just sort of get over it. It's happened to all of us. Mom, you've been making
everybody else live in your filth. Today it stops so you can go. You can go. Now, we can get to cleaning up
and stop stalling or you can go and we'll clean it up. OK, well, hey. Somebody go and
get the back hoe. She wants to dig her
grave and put her in it. They don't like nothing
I do, so it don't matter. Throw it away. That's what-- throw me away. JERI JO: And you guys want
to cut me off, cut me off. My family hates the fact that
I'm married to my husband. And they hate the
fact that I have all of this stuff in my house. And I think they're just
trying to group everything together and just make
it one big problem. It's bull [bleep]. MICHAEL TOMPKINS:
Talk to each other so you can fix this and repair
the damage that's been done and you can move on. But don't avoid it. CINDY: You think we're
going to not love you because your house is a mess? The family wants to
be here with her. But we can't be. There is nowhere for us. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: You know, in
a sense, you've excluded them. And you're isolated. And how do you think
that makes them feel? Do you believe they
care about you? For the most part, yes. Holy crap. MICHAEL TOMPKINS:
For the most part? - Mm-hmm.
- For the most part? I don't understand. I don't understand--
what could-- how many-- - What have I done?
- How many-- You haven't done anything. Why are you guys
on the defensive? MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Jeri
Jo's family are really trying to reach out
to her, really trying to express how they feel. And Jeri Jo is not
taking that in. She's pulling back. Can we stop now? Why? Because you're feeling--
how are you feeling? I just would like to take
a walk outside for a second. MICHAEL TOMPKINS:
You're not going to get anything accomplished
by going and quickly getting everything out of your house,
because if we're not really fixing the problem, guess what
your house is going to look like in another year.
- The same as it looks today. Exactly. And it would be great
if you were close enough with your sisters
again that you would actually ask for their help,
you know, instead of being embarrassed by it. CINDY: Do you think we're
here to embarrass you? Don't roll your eyes. I don't know why you think
that we're not here to help. You get that attitude. Jeri is very, very capable
of being very vicious. She's also very capable
of being very sweet. It just depends on
what Jeri you get. And I said I appreciate
it and thank you. What do you want me to do? We've been doing this since-- What the [bleep]
do you want me to do? ALICIA: Nope. Don't do that. Don't go there with me. DARLENE: Hey, somebody
go and get the backhoe. She want to dig her grave and
put her in it because we're here to clean up. And we have new clothes
have never been worn. I wonder if she
even tried them on. New. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: We
need to give Constance a visual of the amount
of stuff that she has. This is a good thing to see
because she's complaining that she doesn't
have enough money. I'm talking about she's going
to have to have one of those, like, Oprah Winfrey closets. That's the idea. I could just dive in and grab
and I could have at least $300 worth of brand new
clothes with tags on it, but you're concerned
about going hungry. Make that make sense for me. OK. But I'm telling you
this is five lifetimes. Miss Connie is really
searching for an identity. This is a woman who arrested in
development somewhere around 15 years old. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: Would
you consider take those to a consignment shop so
that you can get the money-- Then take them out if
that's what the case would be. No, that-- I asked
you a question. Take them all back. These are my winter clothes. I will be cold. Take them back. These are my work clothes.
Take them back. I'm not going to
be able to work. These are my summer clothes. Take them back. [interposing voices] See what I'm saying? Time out. Let's have a plan. Now, will you trust your
sister and your daughter to take from the old things,
the things that are ratty tatty soiled, those can go? Is that fair? OK. That's the plan. You're not going
to replace that. They don't make them no more. MELVA GREEN: The
sight of Miss Connie looking at the junk
truck, shaking her head, feeling pretty disgusted
about the whole process, it says that she's barely
in the game with us. Now, I'm proud-- I said right now-- I said I need two more things
and I won't buy no more clothes for 10 years. Miss Connie, that sounds like
an alcoholic saying they need two more drinks before
they're going to get sober. This is a woman who is
incredibly attached to all of it, and is still focused
on getting two corduroy skirts to complete her wardrobe. CONSTANCE: This isn't working. Because I said I'm going to-- OK, well let's go over
and look at the clothes and find out who's trying to
make you got go butt naked. CONSTANCE: These are my clothes. I-- MELVA GREEN: I need Miss
Connie to connect the dots here that her living under these
circumstances is not safe. We've got short sleeves,
long sleeves, all here. And we haven't been through
that last room of clothes. ANGELA: Why don't you just
donate the rest of your clothes and go with these clothes
you have here instead of trying to keep everything? You can't keep everything. CONSTANCE: I need my shoes. I'm definitely not
going through my shoes. She can't wear them shoes. DARLENE: I'm tired. This is over with as of today. We can be agreeable or we
have other alternatives that your daughter wants to do. We've been here for
two days cleaning up. We only got two rooms clean. This is ridiculous. If you don't feel like you
need to clean up and get rid of stuff, you are going
to the nursing home. That's it. We can't do this anymore. What's it going to be? JERI JO: I'm starting to feel
extremely anxious, worried about things getting thrown out
that I didn't want to be thrown out and worried about
not having control over what's being thrown out. I don't want you going
into the day being stressed out and-- tell me what happened
last night after we left. After the last truck
left, I immediately went to the dumpster
and opened it and found several
personal things that I would like to have kept
that were in the dumpster. I know my digital camera's
in there somewhere. Is that in your bedroom?
JERI JO: Yeah. OK. I take full responsibility. It's a big mistake. You know, that's all I can say. And we don't want to
make this worse on you, don't want to make it
any harder than it is. I can see how much
it's hurting you and I want to move into day
two with your complete trust. CATHY: She was so sad, so upset. But since that
time, there's been things that have been found
that she's now happy about. And we love you and adore you. Are you the one that found it? Yeah, it was in this. Is that it? That's one of them. All right. All right. The camera. We found it. Throw this away. Throw this away. You got it? I got it. MIKE: Whoa. I went in there
and I was shocked. It was a hangman's noose. Is this a noose? JERI JO: Uh huh. MIKE: That scares me. Why? Because that's the way
people kill themselves. And I'm scared that, you know,
you may nut up someday and use that thing. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Mike's
speaking to his concern. JERI JO: Right.
Absolutely. OK. You know, and I have to say,
when I walked in, it scared me, too, because I know that
you've been struggling with depression, too. When people are depressed,
this is not the thing you want hanging around. I don't know
what to make of it. I don't think she would
do anything like that, but I can't say for sure. I think if she got desperate
enough or angry enough at all of us-- I don't know. What is the purpose of that? I mean-- Just to be funny. It just a joke. I was going to hang a
teddy bear on there. I know she's got kind of
a sick sense of humor, so-- JERI JO: It was a joke. He didn't seem to
think it was funny. MIKE: Jeri just
said it was a joke. Just seemed to get all resolved. She let me take it down. I undid the noose and
disposed of the rope. MICHAEL TOMPKINS:
Mike feels better now. I feel better now. Are we going to unpack then?
MIKE: Yes, we are. I am.
JERI JO: OK, me too. Donate, donate, trash. COREY CHALMERS: We just went
through this entire area and she kept 2 and 1/2 boxes
out of her entire porch. Something to be proud of. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: That
is amazing, Jeri Jo. In all, we've disposed of
about 8,000 pounds of trash plus about two full cargo
vans to the donation center. I think she did really good. I made some threats to
Jeri that if she didn't go through this process like she
needed to go through that I was willing to call building and
safety for whatever it took. I no longer have to do that. I don't have to worry about
her safety or health anymore. The place is immaculate. Oh my gosh. This is beautiful. Oh god. This is beautiful. Oh my god. Thank you.
Yes. Look at this. CATHY: Jeri probably
hasn't been in that room since the day she
moved into this house. She was very, very happy. Brought tears to my eyes, too. Oh, look. A little dog bed. The room is beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful. I didn't think it
could look that pretty. I know her house is safe
now for her and for her dog. And that was my main concern. As you move forward, I think
it's really important for you also to remember that
there's more work to be done. Absolutely. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Compared
to some people that I've worked with, Jeri Jo
made a remarkable change in letting go. The real key will be whether
Jeri Joe actually accepts referrals for psychotherapy. If she does that, her
prognosis is good. Therapy is something that I
will definitely follow through with. I feel like I've made
tremendous strides. I never thought it
would be like this. Absolutely never. Look. Look at your new house. This is an awakening
moment for me. Yes, it is. DARLENE: Honey,
what we're trying to ask you right now-- do
you want to stay and accept the help, or do you want to
go to the nursing home today? Somebody come help us.
You need to come on. DARLENE: Come do what you're
physically able to do. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
So that's going? CONSTANCE: Yes. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
So these three boxes, we're going to let that go?
CONSTANCE: Yes. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
She said it can go. MELVA GREEN: Angela, I
want to say this to you. I want to honor you (CRYING) for
not giving up on your mother. That's big. Yeah. MELVA GREEN: You're
a strong young lady. She's lucky to have
given birth to you. Thank you, baby. I love you. I did need the help. And I appreciate the help. And I was not able,
but I appreciate you being there for me. Oh my God. It got really emotional
for me, because I know what it took
for this family to stay together
despite the odds. You trusted and you believed. It's a very big
deal, Miss Connie. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON:
Underneath all of the stuff, we're finding a trailer that is
not structurally sound for her to live in. Anything could come in here. Snakes. CONSTANCE: It was home,
but it was not livable. But I was living there anyhow. I am worried about where
I'm going to be now. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: I'm
going to look at alternatives because this space
is just not safe. DAVE SELLMAN: My
name is Dave Sellman. I'm the owner of Star
Tex Manufactured Homes. I have the ability to come up
with a home that was traded in. I would be willing to bring that
home out here and set it up, OK? MELVA GREEN: So Dave has brought
us this amazing news that he has another home. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: Constance's
new home is on its way here. She has no idea that
we're doing anything. I'm really excited about it. I will be interested to
see how she reacts to this. I think it's going
to blow her mind. Oh, Miss Connie. I think this is coming for you. Come on! [laughter] What do you think about
them getting it in this place? It'd be wonderful. Wonderful. Two bedrooms. Two baths. Oh, my goodness. STANDOLYN ROBERTSON: It's your
closet with all your clothes! [cheering, laughing] Look at the bathtub. This is the guy
that did all the work. CONSTANCE: Come here. I need to hug you. Come over here. Let me have a group hug. Look what I got. [cheering] Look at that. [interposing voices] Connie's had a lot
of wins, in my opinion. This is a woman who was quite
fatalistic when we started out with this. To see her make this
huge turning point, it gives me chills. We went from a woman who was
preparing to die to someone who is preparing to live. ANGELA: I will actually
sleep like a baby at night knowing that I did my best
possible for my mother. CONSTANCE: I'm just ecstatic. I think the people-- the guy
working-- are beautiful people. I think people are beautiful. I really do.
