She's doing a
hardcore hoarding. I swear to [bleep]. Now, you can't have it. MAN: Lots of drugs are
being done in this house. You want me to
change your diaper? Get the camera out of my face. [sobbing] Can you guys go
somewhere else and fight? Oh, Mom's just lazy. Mom's just crazy. We're all done
trying and help her. [gasps] Just break this [bleep]
and then it has to go. It's a rock. It means nothing. They tried to
rescue your teenager from being buried alive. [theme music] [music playing] This is what I really wanted. My name is Joni, and I'm
a retired school teacher. I believe that everyone
has an addiction, but I'm not really hooked on
anything that I must have, except my things. [music playing] I love costume jewelry,
clothes, magazines. I'm Theresa and Joni
is my grandmother. My grandmother is
addicted to shopping. She goes to a shop
15 times a week. If she could, she'd go more,
like literally, for anything. If she has a coupon
for a pack of gum, my grandmother will go to the
store and get that pack of gum. Two days ago, I seen three
cases of macaroni and cheese in her car. Whatever she has the
money for, she will buy. [beeps] I'm Joey, my
mother's oldest son. Every inch of available space in
the house, every inch, filled. [music playing] There's a wide variety of
stuff, jewelry, antiques, gold, little caches of money
that she hidden from us. There's no room to walk. In the upstairs floor,
you'd have to bend over just to like get through. Filthy, it's absolutely filthy. [music playing] The city said that
it was a fire hazard. They shut off the electric,
the gas, and the utilities. I'm Sal. I'm Joni's boyfriend. She was all messed up at
the time at the house. I felt sorry for. She really had nowhere
to go, so I took her in. As the months went by, she
kept bringing stuff over. The books and magazines,
the clothes, jewelry, so I question about it,
you know, what's going on? Sal was very frustrated and
feels like he's getting crowded out of his space. If I don't clean this
out, Sal will kick me out of the apartment. He says a room to breathe. SAL: I don't want to throw
her out, but enough is enough. I just can't take it anymore. [music playing] Sal doesn't want to
lose his apartment because of her sickness, but, you
know, why should he suffer? He ain't her child like we were. We didn't have a choice. That was our mother. You know, my childhood
was very difficult. There was always food. There was always
nice clothes to wear. We had everything
we always wanted except for a clean house. [music playing] JONI: Losing my husband
through the divorce was another thing that I had
lost, that I couldn't hold onto, as my mom. And I started to say, well,
I'm not too good with hanging onto people. Let me try hanging onto things. JOEY: Mother's problem
has frustrated both me and my brother. Beyond screaming
and yelling, I'm talking holes in the
walls, broken doors, lamps across the room. If you want a mess,
I'll make a mess. With my mother's problem,
definitely wanted to escape, and it became very easy
to calm myself with drugs. While I was
incarcerated, that was like a free pass for my mother. She went unchecked. At least when I was around, I
was able to pull the reins in. Growing up around that house
and around all that stuff, it was pretty rough. Dog feces on the
ground, garbage. JOEY: The relatives around
wouldn't allow my daughter to be raised in that
kind of an atmosphere. So eventually, my mother
lost custody also. An uncle, who was a
sheriff, took me from her, and I was brought to my
other grandmother's house. JOEY: It's been an emotional
roller coaster over the years. Me and my brother, we
both at different times exploded because of the house. But, you know, no matter
how emotional I get, she finds a way for it to go
in one ear and out the other. JONI: My kids have
tried many times to discard my things, in which
I really took like hissy fit and screamed and yelled
and told them that's it. Get out of the house. Leave my things alone. And I am still doing
that up to today. She's OK with her
addiction, and she's OK with living in clutter
and filth all the time. But if she doesn't
get everything done, she'll lose her house,
her family, her friends. She'll lose everything. MILLIE: My name is Millie. And my addiction, without
a shadow of a doubt, would be flowers and plants. Plants are the main thing
I have that make me happy. I feel like if it's
pretty on the outside, nobody's going to know
what's on the inside. I'm Jessica. And I Millie's oldest daughter. When you walk in the side
door, it's just packed. You can barely get in. You don't see chairs. You don't see a couch. We used to tease that
it was the Addams Family house, because that's
what it looked like. [thunder] MILLIE: I do have
some collections. JESSICA: I would describe
my mom as being in denial. MILLIE: I feel that I have
some really cool stuff. JESSICA: But I don't think
she has any idea what's really in there. CHELSEA: I and Chelsea. I'm 17 years old, and I'm the
youngest daughter of Millie. My first memory of the house
was running through and jumping over piles of clothes
and cans and rubbish. I went to my grandpa's for,
like, two weeks, I think. It was hard. I had no contact with my mom. It was scary when CPS
got involved for Chelsea. MILLIE: When she left me, it
almost put me in my grave. The house was clean when I got
home, but it didn't stay clean. I have said that my mom has
chosen her junk over her kids and grandkids. Now, I left my grandpa in St.
Clair Shores for almost a year now. MILLIE: I want my kids
and my grand babies. I want them here. I want them in my face. CHELSEA: I feel like mom has
an excuse for everything. I mean, she's always said that. In order for me to move
back to my mom's house, she has to want to change. MILLIE: I absolutely want my
daughter to move back home. I would like to build a
relationship with mom again, but if my mom doesn't clean
up her stuff, we're all done. MILLIE: When I was
11, I had to take care of my sisters and the household,
because my mom was pretty sick. I'm Jo Lynn, and I'm
Millie's youngest sister. At a very young age,
Millie was like my mom. She cooked for us,
she cleaned for us. It was just not a childhood. And I think maybe I've
rebelled in my own way. She just gets
and gets and gets. It's almost like a high. JESSICA: This
stuff has piled up, and her walls against
everybody else in the world have gone up too. MILLIE: And my
method of rebelling has been to have what I wanted
and barricading everybody out. When I was younger, I always
felt really bad for my mom. I always felt guilty, and
I wanted to protect her. The more that I grew
up, had kids of my own, it made me angry. MILLIE: I chose junk over having
somebody involved in my life. JESSICA: She's
always been a mother, but I guess it's more of a
selfish thing on her terms. MILLIE: Jessica has
thrown it in my face time after time after time that
I was a horrible mother. JESSICA: It put a huge
weight on our shoulders, our whole childhood. And it's hard to kind of feel
sympathy for it, to be honest. There's a lot of anger. I would be very surprised
if Chelsea moved back home. I think the relationship
has been really damaged. JESSICA: I hope
she loves us enough she'll clean up her house. But it's really us or the stuff. JONI: This was so
expensive, this one. My grandmother has an
addiction to hoarding, and my parents had an
addiction to drugs. And they did something
about it, and now it's time for my grandmother
to do something about it. MATT PAXTON: Joni, I'm Matt.
- Hi. Pleased to meet you. Good to meet you. Waiting for you. My name is Matt Paxton,
and I'm an extreme cleaning specialist. Let's go together. OK. MATT PAXTON: If you
look at the house, her hoarding echoes the
drug use of her children. She's doing hardcore hoarding. [dramatic music] She's not smoking weed, man. She's doing heroin. What room is this? This is-- JONI: This is the hallway. This is the living room. Of course, it started
out to be, like, a den, when I was living upstairs. I can barely see you. I'm going to turn on the
night vision so I can see you. There we go. OK. Joni is definitely a hoarder. But that's not her
biggest problem. Joni's issues are she's let
her kids get away with anything for, really, their entire life. She's so embarrassed
about the hoard that she gives a
kid money for drugs. Everyone's taken money. Yeah. They were on drugs,
and they were arrested. The reason why I enabled them
was because if I didn't give them the $20 or $40 or $80
or $90 or $100 for the drugs, they would go out and get
caught, either with possession or taking something, whatever. She's paying mental
debt with money. Does you family take
your whole check before the end of
the day on payday? Sure. And you're cool with that. JONI: No. I had to file bankruptcy,
because of the fact that I couldn't pay the
electric and the gas and the phone and the
heating and anything. MATT PAXTON: I've got to find
out if we can save this house. I couldn't really get Joni
to go that much further back in the house. So I started
exploring on my own. [clatter] And this is just dusk. It's not even dark
outside yet, and you can see how much of a
hard time I'm having just to get through here. [clatter] Hello. [sigh] Some help, man. [clatter] [grunt] [bleep] You can
just see, every room we go into, there's another
stove, another microwave. Every room you go, you see
where they just filled it up and started over. Every single room just
became a new place to live. Eventually, this house
became kind of a drug house. You can see it just
got shattered, man. Ugh. [glass tinkling] Everyone in the family has
acknowledged shooting up heroin in this house. So we're going to find spoons. We're going to find needles. And we've got to be
really careful with that. Lots of drugs being
done in this house, man. Drug pipes everywhere. Then, you look around
and all of a sudden, there's like a
stove under there, in the corner of
the living room. Obviously, the
stove's for heating so they could shoot the heroin. I couldn't imagine actually
living in here, man. And these kids grew up in this. I mean, this is their desk. Look at that. And now, literally, we're
worried about heroin needles and possum poop. The kids are really pissed
about how their life was here. And I can see the
evidence of it. This is from someone getting
pissed off, putting their fist through there. Ugh. I can feel all this
dust in me already. All I smell is urine and poop. [clatter] Oh, this is awful. Knowing that your kids became
drug addicts because of this, that you ruined their lives, and
you ruined their kids' lives, because you've been unable
to get rid of this stuff. Let me assure you,
there is no way in hell anyone in this family
is going to take her in. She will be homeless if we
do not clean this house up, period. CHELSEA: If my mother does
not get the house cleaned up, we will not have a relationship. This is the last step. We're all done
trying to help her. [bells] Hi, Millie. I'm Dr. Michael Tompkins. Hi, Dr. Tompkins. Very nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I'm Dr. Michael Tompkins. I'm a psychologist, and I
specialize in the treatment of hoarding and OCD. OK. Well, tell me about this room. What's this room? The catch-all. The catch-all. Great term. Do you think you have
a hoarding problem? No. I don't think I do, because
I don't have dead animals and wastebasket stuff
all over the floor. MICHAEL TOMPKINS:
But of course, if you look at the state of
her home and the way she thinks and the way she
interacts with possessions, she does have a
hoarding problem. How confident are you that you
can let go of this clothing right here? MILLIE: Um, that is-- 0 to 10, where 10 is
absolutely guaranteed. Well I can't throw it
out without looking at it. MILLIE: Millie is really
defensive about what's going on. She's really quite closed off. I don't think that
my kids understand what made me this way. Oh, mom's just lazy. Mom's just crazy. They put all these labels on me. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: It's not just
about the hoarding problem. I think she's very defensive
about the attitudes her children have
about her as a mother. This was Chelsea's room. Was Chelsea's room? Where's Chelsea? She didn't want to
live with me anymore. Why not? Because of the mess. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Millie was
most emotional at those moments when she felt like her kids
don't really understand her. MILLIE: She thinks
I ruined her life. I'm never coming back. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: So she just
couldn't tolerate living here anymore. How do you know that? She told me she hates me. When did she tell you that? When she left as well as when
she came back to get her stuff. MILLIE: Chelsea's rejection
of her as a mother, calling her a bad
mother, that, I think, is what really hurt her. So I think the stakes
are very high for Millie. If a fire broke
out, how long do you think it would take you
to get out of this house? I don't know that
I'd want to get out. What?
What? What? You mean you'd rather
die in this hoard? Because then it would
just all go when I go. So how was it? Uh, it was interesting. I'm Suzanne Chabaud, and I'm a
specialist in OCD and hoarding. It's bad. I mean, the inside
is-- is all filled. All these clothes are
just soaked in urine. [sniffle]
Ugh. It's smells like cats,
but she has no cats. So it's possible it's raccoons. The bigger issue is
that the family members, they make her feel
so guilty for this. So they sponge off of her. They take money
from her non-stop. The kids and the boyfriend
were calling constantly all night long. I'm trying to sleep,
trying to close my eyes, and I can hear her
upstairs right now. She keeps saying I can't
get any money from them. I can't get any money. No one will cash
a check at night. You've got your hands full. I've got my hands full. This is a really,
really tough one. The paradox about
Joni's life is she wanted to keep her boys safe. So she gave them money and
things that they wanted, but in truth, nobody was safe. People's lives were destroyed. Hoarding took over her life. She knows that this
is the last straw. If she doesn't do something
now, she will be homeless. MATT PAXTON: Early morning,
we got so much work to do. I've got 20 guys ready to roll. And I can't get
started without them. When is your family
getting here? Because I really want to-- My brother will be here in
about, um, 25 to 30 minutes. MATT PAXTON: I need to
communicate to them that time is of the essence for
the rest of the week. What's the best way for me
to communicate that to them? I'm assuming yelling at
them is not the proper way. - I'll take care of it.
- All right. We need to really stress that
we need them here on time-- Yeah.
I'll take care of it. --the rest of the week. Hello. Frank, where the
[bleep] are you? Hurry up. No one can do anything
until you get here. You don't know why. Because you're a part of
the-- you mother [bleep].. Frankie doesn't believe that
we can't start without him. He's lazy, and that's
my mother's fault. My mother was always praising
me and putting him down. - What do you want?
- We've just got to get started. That's what we've got to do. [clatter] OK. Here's your bin, ma. OK. I don't mean to be
ruthless, but ma, you know-- - I know.
- --we got these people here. - All these clothes are going.
- I'm not wasting their time. They got three days. I don't think you need
to look at the clothes. The clothes all got to go.
- Hello. That's Poppy. They signed it Poppy. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He signed them when
he had a heart attack. Are you going to bring
it to the cemetery? Did you want me to put
it on your [bleep] grave? No, but it's not mine. It's my father's.
- Well, he's dead. Time out. Time out. Joey. He's the head of the family. He's been doing it
since he's a little boy, and his mother is totally
intimidated by him. I thought you might want
to save something that-- For what?
To live like you? JONI: No.
All right. Throw it out. I'm not throwing it out. You've got to let her
save a few things. That's part of the deal.
- You're in the first room. MATT PAXTON: No [bleep].
I've done this-- And fill it up like this. I've done about 500 of these.
I actually know what I'm doing. OK.
Go ahead. She can save a few things. If she comes back and says no-- If you don't mind staying
over an extra week or two. MATT PAXTON: You're
saying no, because you don't want to upset your son.
- No. Just throw it out. There's going to be
a lot of those pillows. I'm very aware of
how much stuff is here. And by the next room,
you'll be changing your mind. You're going to get frustrated. I'm already frustrated. She frustrates like no other. SUZANNE CHABAUD:
The whole strategy of trying to get Joni
to make good decisions, it's not going to happen
when one person dominates the family. Where you going with my-- I would never eat
out of that dish. Here's my heart over here. What are you going to
do to with that heart? I'll put it with-- Yeah, ma, you know what? I swear to [bleep] I'll leave. I'm not [bleep] playing no more. Why can't I have my other-- Why? Because you got 400 of 'am. - No, I don't.
- Look. This one. [glass shattering] Now you can't have it. I'm Dorothy Breininger. I'm a professional
organizing expert. And I specialize in hoarding. This family is pretending
like there's no problem. But you know what? Underneath all of this is
sizzling, seething anger. MILLIE: Now, could you kind
of be a little bit careful, please? I do have breakable stuff. [glass breaking] [gasp] I will kill someone. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: As we started
working, right off the bat actually, some of the
people broke some things. I just feel like
it's just like my kids. Just break the [bleep]
and then it has to go. It's not just about a thing. She sees it as kind of
an extension of herself. Because to them,
it's all junk. It's not all junk. Rough and reckless and
disrespectful of her things is the same for
Millie as them being rough and reckless and
disrespectful to her. Hey, team meeting
outside right away. Even though it may
look like junk to us, still treat it like it's
something very important. [clatter] She's out there right
now digging through. OK.
What's she digging through? The trash? Yeah. MILLIE: Millie is kind of
hanging over at the trash. Nothing can go past
me, because I really need to make sure nothing goes
on the truck that's not trash. May I asked you
a couple questions. Sure. Help me understand a
little bit your process. MILLIE: I think I'm doing
what I'm supposed to be doing. She wants to go
through everything, and she wants to
touch everything and she wants to
examine everything. I'm letting go of what
I need to let go of. At this point, she hasn't
really let go of a lot. In discussing with Millie, do
you have hoarding disorder? She said, well,
I have a problem, but it's not really
hoarding, because I don't have dead animals in my house. Whoa. Oh, that's so totally gross. It's a-- it's a dead
mouse, and where there's one, there's a family. We found a dead Mouse I see that. So you don't believe that
this is a hoarding issue? I have some tendencies, but I
don't believe I'm a full-blown hoarder. We're cracking, but it's all
outside, waiting for Millie to do something, make some
choices, make some decisions. I feel like this
matches my living room. I don't love it or hate it. The pictures, is
that the problem? What?
- No. That's one from your mom. Why don't you just go back
and work on what you were-- I don't want to
stress you out, mom. You're making it worse. Did I happen to mention
nothing left the property today? Just want it to be better. I want you to be better. This is an opportunity. I understand that. I am older than you. It makes me mad. Like, what am I here for? Why am I cleaning your house? [bleep] I'm not your child. [clatter] Spread that whole [bleep] out. You think I'm [bleep] playing? No. You just took my
whole [bleep] life. You're only getting
three more days of it. MATT PAXTON: The challenge
with this family, they're normal is insane. [glass breaking] Their normal is throwing
stuff at each other. Why would you save this? If I gotta smash it,
I gotta smash it. Just not going to
put up with it. This is the last straw. Now, remember, she is trying. No. She's been trying for 50 years. That's right. There's no more trying now. It's accomplished.
- All right. Get better. Remember, you
got sober somehow. How did you get sober? I went to jail. And I was forced to
do the right thing. And that's what I'm doing here. So that's-- Forcing her to
do the right thing. I'm working my [bleep] ass off. I don't need this. I have a life. My family is like an anchor. And where's Frankie? Where's Frankie? SUZANNE CHABAUD: Joey should
have never been the parent. It was not a role he
should have taken on, but it was given to him. This is my whole life. It's on me. Ball and chain on one leg, ball
and chain on the other leg. You know, how much of my life
do they want to take from me? What use is Frankie to you? No use. He's worthless. Worthless. Oh, excuse me. Here he is. Frankie. Yeah, you mother [bleep]. Get over here right now
or I will smash your car. Because you think I'm going
to be on my [bleep] knees. You think I'm going
to be on my knees doing this while you're home? Just come and do something or
move [bleep] out of the house. Joey's anger makes me feel
that the job is overwhelming, and it will be impossible
for even my sons or myself to get everything cleared out. JOEY: You're supposed
to be here [bleep].. Well, I can't-- I'm on my [bleep]
knees in there. Yeah. you're on your knees.
Did I fill it? Did I live here? You're supposed to be here.
OK. Whatever, Joey. Yeah, when I evict
out of Townsend. Yeah.
Evict me. Go ahead.
Yeah. You think I'm a [bleep] idiot? You want me to
change your diaper? [gasp] Oh, my God. No. [crying] Get a phone. Someone grab a phone. I don't have a phone. I turn around,
Joni's on the ground. She's got blood
coming down her face. Let me get the blood up.
Hold it. It's very stressful on her. I think she just tripped over
a stick is what it looked like. The issue with me is
that the kids just continue to fight as their
mother is on the ground bleeding.
- Bleeding! Yeah.
All right. I'll stay. - That's right [bleep]
- Yeah. All right, Joey.
Blame me. I lived--
- That's right. You're home and I'm on my knees. Guys, your mom is-- can you guys go
somewhere else and fight? Seriously. Go somewhere else and
fight, both of you. JONI: It's always like this. Hold on. [siren] I've never seen a family
this dysfunctional in my life, and here they are behind
me yelling right now. Yeah. I want the world to know
what a [bleep] you are. Yo. Get the camera out of my face,
all right, before I smack you. This is not how I wanted
to start my morning. OK, sweet pea. You're still sorting
in the trash. Not over there, but here. Either we commit to filling
at least one truck by noon or we need to put it all back. I have a friend coming to
help me pick out certain things to make you happy to get
rid of the rest of it. It's not to make me happy. I'd like you to have your
daughter in this house. Well, absolutely. MICHAEL TOMPKINS:
Millie, I think you're ambivalent about it. No, I'm not
ambivalent about it. When we were talking
about your goals, getting Chelsea's room
clear so she could move back was the last goal. Right. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Chelsea's
story is heartbreaking. Bounced from house to house. She's desperate to have a home
that she can call her home, and I think she's desperate to
have a mother who she can feel is there for her. I have heard you
say, this is my time. It is my time.
JESSICA: You know, guess what? It was my time to
be a mom to my kids. But I still had to
be a mom to your kid. Chelsea, do you feel
like she wants you here when she pushes you away? I'm not thinking
about myself right now. Who are you thinking about? My mother. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: OK. JESSICA: We're here
because we love you, and we want a
relationship with you. Just like a kid. You don't ever give up on a kid. And we're never going
to give up on you. Did I ever give up on you when
you guys were doing what you did? How about thank you to this
woman who just said we're not giving up on you. Did you hear her? Yes, but do you also know
what she put me through? Being a kid? I'm sorry. DOROTHY BREININGER:
I'm sorry, honey. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: She was
trying to reach out to her mom and tell her mom that she cared,
and what she heard from her mom was, yes, but you made
my life miserable. CHELSEA: I feel she
has made her decision. She has chosen
this stuff over us. There's no getting
rid of any of this. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: Tell me about
what this problem has done to your daughters. It's just given them
something to gripe at me about. It's always the victim card. Nobody wants to hear
that you're a victim. You know what?
I'm not being a victim. You said that
from the beginning-- You know what? --of our day, mother. Do you know what
you put me through? It's what you said to me. Yeah, because you were
putting me on the spot. - First of all--
- --because you absolutely did. --I was a kid. That's your job, is
to keep me in line. OK, remember that
when your three boys are going through their teens.
- Guess what, mom? I had your teenager. CHELSEA: You took my teenager. I didn't take your-- Oh, for [bleep]. I didn't take your teenager. I tried to rescue your teenager
from being buried alive. Your CPUs, you say
you have to keep them? Yes.
DOROTHY BREININGER: All right. Are you keeping the lampshades? MILLIE: Yes. DOROTHY BREININGER: And is it
you want to keep it or give it away?
- Yes. That is a happy weight. DOROTHY BREININGER:
Expired foods. Stop. I just want to see what it is. DOROTHY BREININGER: I know. We got stuck on some
really old canned food. It's been on the
porch for a year. By all means, I'll pull
it out of the trash and let you save it and eat it. I'm not done yet. Sewing machines. Got 10 sewing machines here. Sewing shops don't
have this many. MILLIE: These are not something
I'm willing to give, not even one up. And when Jo Lynn presented
the rock to Millie-- She won't let go of this rock. No Jo Lynn. DOROTHY BREININGER: Can't
believe her sister can't throw out a rock. We have a situation. I'm ready to leave
over a stupid rock. Too bad. It's a rock. It means nothing. It means some-- OK. Then get your ass out of here. This is ridiculous. We're here to help. I had a plan for that rock. You're home, and
I'm on my knees. MATT PAXTON: This
family is so messed up, they didn't even call
for an ambulance. We actually had to
get on the phone and call the
ambulance ourselves. Want me stay here at the house? You want me to come
to the hospital? JONI: No.
I want you to stay there. MATT PAXTON: Don't
worry about your house. I'll take care of it, OK?
JONI: I fell on your fridge. Yeah.
[bleep] MATT PAXTON: OK. [siren] JOEY: (ANGRILY) Matt. Yo yo. [bleep] me. My [bleep] gets [bleep] done. These are my ringer
fireworks collection. There's 25 pages in here. MATT PAXTON: When we got back,
we realized that the guys had accidentally thrown away a
really important scrapbook of Joey's. I've been collecting these
since I was seven years old. I got to babysit. Stop screaming. MATT PAXTON: You know what? We've thrown away 6,000
pounds of trash today, and you're bitching at us.
- Yeah. I said don't go in the room. Do the hallway. You said that's all.
- And I did. I told them that. They raped the other room. They didn't rape
the other room. They threw some [bleep] away. - They threw stuff away I said--
- You know what? You told me to throw
everything away. --don't touch that. So they're going
to take it out. It's 40 years old. I know, but they're
going to take it out. So what's going to go now? It's gone. To him, it taps into a
very deep and old wound. That what I care about
is not important to you guys, no matter what I say. JOEY: All this stuff you
could've thrown away. He's furious. The hallway and the
bathroom isn't done. I'm going to go
talk to the dump guys. OK. [clatter] I saw that. Ooh. Why did you just throw that
almost at the producer? JOEY: Because I'm pissed. My computer desk
wasn't supposed to go. It cost me $800. MATT PAXTON: I can't sit
around and be berated and yelled at for hours on end. It's not OK. - It's in the [bleep] bin.
- What is it? MATT PAXTON: All right.
Pull the desk out. We're done for the day. JOEY: Not that piece of [bleep]. The [bleep] mahogany one. Pull out what you
want, and we're done. Where's my [bleep] labels? 30 years old. Huh? It's no longer safe for
any of my crew to be here. Junk guys, close it
up and get outta here. You're done. We're way beyond
our comfort zone as far as the aggression
towards the crew. Thinking about no
one but your crew. [bleep] crew. MATT PAXTON: We had to
put our cameras down. Everybody as a team, we
agreed we needed to leave. After we left the property, we
continued to get phone calls throughout the night. And they just intensified. It's the first time I've
ever been like, oh, my God. I am going to get my
ass kicked right now. Like, this is going to happen. Like, this guy is
going to hurt me. We have to put our safety
ahead of cleaning this house. This morning, we made
a final decision. We're leaving. This is so sad. This poor woman needed help. SUZANNE CHABAUD: How are you? How are you feeling? My ribs hurt a lot, and my
eye is sore with still bleeding. I have glasses on before. SUZANNE CHABAUD: Oh, boy. Joni's really
upset this morning. It's been a very traumatic
experience for her. You got 400 of 'em. [glass breaking] Now you can't have it. It was so stressful for
me, and the threatening, the language, everything
was just threatening. Hey, you mother [bleep] over
here right now or I will smash your car. JONI: It got really
wild, the screaming. Just come and do something. Joey is out of control. You mean that I'm
a [bleep] idiot? You want me to
change your diaper? It-- it's just hurtful. It's just hurtful. SUZANNE CHABAUD: I'm concerned
about what your future is going to be. We'd like to see people
get back into their homes. That's a big part of this. This is not going to happen. The reality
financially we're in is, even if this family
were able to come together and focus, it would still cost
probably 100 grand or more to fix this home. They need to just either let
the city take it and move on or try to sell it as is. SUZANNE CHABAUD: You're going to
need to take care of yourself. I will offer her arrangements
for aftercare services to help at least get Sal's
apartment in shape, where maybe she can stay there a bit longer. We want you to be safe. The most important thing is
that you change the way you deal with your sons. If she's to have any security in
her future, she has to say no. No to her boys, no to everybody
that depends on her for money. It's time to heal. Joni will be able to go see
a therapist who can work with her on the hoarding. But foremost, she has to work
on boundaries in her family, because if she can't
get peace in her life, she will keep turning to
hoarding to relieve herself. It means some-- OK.
Then get your ass outta here. Mom. That rock means more to you
than your stinking sister. Oh?
JESSICA: Listen. Don't leave. We had a plan to come in
and do over this entire house. Do you see how you're
treating everybody else? This little piece
stopped the whole process. Millie wouldn't get rid of it. And the whole
family flipped out. Get outta here. JESSICA: I'm not
getting outta here. I'm going to go empty your room,
because if you can't do it, somebody has to do it for you.
- I said I would do it. DOROTHY BREININGER: Because
we had this huge fiasco of a fight, Millie shut down. I'd like for you to try
to get rid of as much as you possibly can. Anything at all that you
can say yes, Dorothy, I'll give it away. - Yes.
- Good. Bring it on. So which one would you do? This middle one. Give me something else. I want you to be
tough on yourself. Good job. Give me one lamp out of
all these, if you can. You guys have said a lot
of hard things to each other, but today, what we're trying
to do is a day of healing, to really try to
bring you together. So let's go. Through the front door. Oh, wow. Go on in. Aw. I was proud of my mom. When we went in the
house, to see her face, I know that she felt good. It doesn't smell
like the cats. Oh, wow. I went shopping
in your backyard to help with this makeover. It was amazing. Everything looked
beautiful and organized. MILLIE: Oh. My God. It's so cute. CHELSEA: We were so inspired to
create a bedroom for Chelsea. My gosh. That looks gorgeous. It looks very nice. I miss you guys. This is the first
hug I've seen. When you get a hug like
that from your mom, what's that like? I don't know. Rare. DOROTHY BREININGER: It's rare. There was this moment in which
I really think your daughters and your sister began to doubt
whether you were willing to let go of more. And it all centered
around this rock. This is an invitation
to let people know you're willing to continue
this journey by letting go of the rock. Give it away. Let it go.
- Throw it. Throw it. I really want this rock, and
I do resent the behavior that was displayed yesterday. It was a major disappointment. MICHAEL TOMPKINS: To me, that
really represents just how deep Millie is into her illness. Chelsea is 17. She's at the cusp of
emancipating herself and moving out. But I think she needs
a place to launch from, and that I think we've provided. DOROTHY BREININGER: If Millie
sticks with the aftercare, there is a possibility that
Chelsea can have a normal life. She deserves it.
