>> announcer: due to strong language, viewer discretion is advised. today on an all-new "dr. phil." everybody knows the robert blake murder trial. >> dr. phil: did you kill your wife? >> of course not. >> dr. phil: did you shoot her? >> that's a weird thick for you to ask. >> announcer: now in an exclusive interview. >> dr. phil: do you think you're crazy? >> but most people's standards, i'm committable. >> announcer: the actor behind the attitude is revealed. >> i have no people skills. i'm not house broken. >> announcer: dr. phil goes inside the home. >> this wall is to keep myself sane. this is to remind me not to kill myself. >> announcer: and inside the mind of robert blake. >> dr. phil: if this is the last interview you ever do, what is the last thing you want to say? it was a celebrity murder trial

that had hollywood on the edge of its seat. >> stunning verdict this afternoon in the murder trial of the former "baretta" star. not guilty of murder in the first degree. >> this small band of dedicated warriors saved my life. >> dr. phil: overnight this tv and film actor went from famous to infamous finding himself in the starring role of fighting for his life when he was accused of killing his wife. not much is known about this fascinating man who has been lying low until recently. but we do know that his life story started on a hollywood sound stage at the tender age of 6. for most of his life, robert blake has been a fixture in hollywood. he was born in new jersey. his family moved to hollywood in

1938 where studio executives changed his name to bobby blake. young bobby moved up the ranks from extra to a leading role in "the little rascals." he landed his role in the mgm film "smoky." he would have memorable roles in the movie "in cold blood" and as the renegade cop in tv's "baretta." >> you know where the money goes? it goes into some kinds arm. that's what i car about it. >> dr. phil: in 1999, he began did it ago woman named bonny lee bakley. she became pregnant. after a paternity test and robert was the father, they were married. bonny was killed by a gunshot to the head while sitting in the car, which was park around the corner from the restaurant they went to. >> blake said he left her in the car and had nothing to do with the murder.

police say he pulled the trigger. >> dr. phil: in 2004, robert stood trial fighting for his life as the sole murder suspect. >> lapd has developed physical and significant circumstantial evidence that robert blake killed bonny lee bakley. >> dr. phil: the trial was a circuit of celebrity lawyers and endless speculation. on march 16, 2005, robert was found not guilty of the murder of his wife, bonny lee bakley but was found liable for her wrongful death. laying low, recently robert resurfaced promoting his memoirs, "tales of a rascal." >> nobody tells me i'm a liar. >> i didn't call you a liar. >> dr. phil: say what you will about robert blake. there's no doubt this man has

led a colorful yet controversial life. robert blake lives far away from the spotlight. no more red carpets or camera flashing. he invited us into his modest two-bedroom apartment and to show us what life is like now for this gentleman. >> my whole life has been getting out of trouble. my whole life has been one angel on the one shoulder and evil on the other. when i was acquitted from the murder rap, i was the king of the world. i had beaten a phony chicken [bleep] rap with a bunch of crooked cops and crooked judges. there was a civil trial. i was broke. but i knew i was in trouble, deep trouble. and all i knew to do to keep

your mouth shut and your hands busy. keep your mouth shut. if you don't open your mouth, you can't get in trouble. if you keep your hands busy, you won't smack somebody. why do you make so much stuff, robert? what have you been doing? i built furniture, i built jewelry, i built a car. i built a motorcycle. i built this gym. what the [bleep] do you mean you built a gym? nobody builds a gym. i want you to see everything. i stole that radio. that is a lone ranger radio from 1941. that's humphrey bogart's watch. when i get to heaven, i'll probably steal things from god. it's one of my gigs.

that's what i do. [laughter] that's in case i have to cut somebody's lock in the middle of the night and go in and steal their daughter. bring your camera in here. these are my house guests. that's chico and groucho. this wall is part of keeping myself sane. this is to remind me not to kill myself. god gave me a do-over. no friends, no home, no wife, no family, no kids, no nothing. when you're sitting here wondering what the hell you're doing alive when everything in the world, everything in the world has been taken away from you and you found out that your friends were your enemies and your family were worse enemies and they had you sign a bunch of [bleep] because you stole everything, there's no worse betrayal in the world than the betrayal of people you love and

trust. i had about $250,000 worth of cars. i had expensive cars. it wasn't losing anything that broke my heart. what broke my heart was losing the people that took it. and you find out that they didn't love you. and that they had their hand in your pocket the whole time. that's what made me want to die after the criminal trial. anything else would be a lie. get the [bleep] out of here. >> dr. phil: well, he is interesting and i think very fascinating. so i guess we should buckle up. robert blake will join us after the break. [applause] >> dr. phil: is this book an admission of any kind? >> i had some scores to settle.

okay. i'm going to take her to dinner tonight. [laughter] you're going to kill her when i'm not looking. right? so we have a deal. i'll have a deal with you. we're going to get her killed and i'm going to be there because i'm that [bleep] stupid. >> announcer: tomorrow on an an all-new "dr. phil." a shocking new twist. >> dr. phil: do you believe that your son's death was not an accident? >> announcer: to a bizarre mystery. >> you can't just spontaneously fall over that railing. >> announcer: wants his father's girlfriend to blame. >> my sister will be alive if max didn't get hurt. >> announcer: a mother's deadly allegation. >> dr. phil: you say you have new evidence. >> i asked the police to reopen the invest. what you don't know -- >> announcer: monday, moms in the news. one charged with child endangerment. >> dr. phil: you turned your kids over to

>> i didn't murder my wife. i may be significant to you. personally, it's not the most significant thing in my life. pearce morgan, the last guy in the world whose name should be pearce. it's like jab, there's something aggressive about pearce. his name should be smush morgan

or not morgan or some pathetic -- that guy sits there and he looks like a monkey with a [bleep] about to explode and says hey, you need a calonic. settle down. [applause] >> dr. phil: how are you? doing all right? >> i'm good. >> dr. phil: all right. a lot of folks here. robert blake. [cheers & applause] have a seat. that was robert blake sharing his thoughts on cnn tv talk show host, pierce morgan. i'm curious what he'll say about me when i'm through. i just met him for the first time. so do i have anything to worry about so far or am i doing all

right? >> it's been a long, long road to this moment. i feel like, you know, i'm home at least. you know, i -- i've never got along with people. i've never been a people person. i entertained people -- >> dr. phil: but you were moved when you came out here. >> yeah. that's because i'm where i belong. i'm in front of them. i entertain them. when i was 2 years old, i danced and sang. they threw pennies to me. this is what i want to say. after all that septic tank of crooked cops and crooked das and all that stuff and i thought for a long time i wouldn't have a wife back again, i don't even want to try it anymore. and then your people called me. i said, i don't ever want to do that again in my life. they kept calling back.

i said you're wasting your time. pretty soon i'm going to insult you. get out of here. this one girl said what will it take you to get you on our show? and i said, tell the guy to call me. they said okay. i thought i would never hear from anybody again. i get a phone call. he said this regular name, which i don't know what your regular name is. >> dr. phil: i said this is phil mcgraw. >> i don't know who phillip mcgraw is. [laughter] i'm about to hang up. [applause] i get a lot of charitable phone calls, crazy people. there's no such thing as a private phone anymore. so i said, yeah, fine, phil mcgraw. he said no, i'm dr. phil. i said i read your book, i love your book and more than that, my wife loves your book. >> dr. phil: you told my producers that you wouldn't want to come on if i hadn't read your

book. >> absolutely. >> dr. phil: i said i never ever have a book on here if i don't read it cover to cover. i did not tell you i read this book. i told you i read the book, i told you i re-read the book and studied parts of the back and red parts of it to robin at my desk. i'm telling you, this is one of the most fascinated things i have ever read. it's candidate, inciteful and raw. you did a good job. >> i said you know what moved me the most? i said, why do you want me on your show? he said i want you to go back to work as an actor. you're a good actor. [applause] >> dr. phil: so let's -- can we talk about this book? >> you can talk about whatever you want. i'm back where i belong and i never thought i got here. i never -- i thought those crooked cops and the crooked das and all those dirty rotten

bastards had taken my life away forever. i was going to quit. >> dr. phil: you got upset when pearce morgan asked you questions. is this book an admission of any kind? are there any things that you're at the later years of your life that you're confessing to? >> i had some scores to settle with some pierce in hollywood, with some rotten stinking cops, with certain people and there's also things that i got off my chest, people i told how much i loved them and never told them before how much i loved them because i'm not easy at that. i can write it. >> dr. phil: i want to talk about you when you were a child. because you talk about childhood. it was a contrast in wonderfulness and really devastation at the same time. because you did not have a good

relationship with your parents, true? >> well, they didn't want me. as i turned out, i didn't want them. i wouldn't have got born. they used a coat hangar twice and it didn't work. frank sinatra's mother wanted $15 for the abortion and they didn't have it. that's how i got here. >> there were two attempts to abort you literally with a coat hangar. >> yes. >> dr. phil: when you learned that, how does that make you feel? >> way back in the early 80s, i started researching myself. i found out that my birth certificate is a phony. i never even had a birth circuit. there was nobody there when i was born. i got a birth circuit two years later. it's a lie, it's a forgery. this book is not really a biography about me. it's really about god. because i'm not smart. i'm not tough.

i'm not educated. i'm not any of those things. god's been on my shoulder since i was in the womb. he's always been on my shoulder. through the trial, through everything in my life. it's a weird thing because call it evil, call it the devil, call it ugly, call it whatever you want, that always stalked me, too, all my life. >> dr. phil: robert says he told a well known figure that he would kill him with his hands the next time he found the person alone. find out who that person is and why robert says those words when we come back. [applause] >> i walked up and i said one of these days, i'm going to find you without your in hinchmen and i'm going to rip your face off. >> dr. phil: you guys have looked at the aurora shooting and thought, my god, that could

be my son. >> janie is schizophrenic. >> she's agitated. >> her hallucinations tell her to jump off buildings. >> why did you investigate your future daughter-in-law? >> you have nothing on me. >> i have never been convicted of anything. >> dr. phil: this isn't your first marriage? >> this is my fifth. >> dr. phil: there should be red flags all over the place. >> i didn't want to come on here so you could embarrass me. you want to pick and pull out of little things that i've done wrong. >> dr. phil: don't tell me how to do my job. >> i didn't get pregnant to be on a tv show. >> dr. phil: i do think you did it to get on a tv show. you need to

>> dr. phil: i do what i say. i told you no ambushes here. >> absolutely not. >> dr. phil: i'm back with robert blake. you said in the book, you talk about the fact that you don't have any friends left, you don't have any family left. we were interviewing you before and you said it's not the things that the people in your life take from you. it's the fact that when they take from you, you lose them, too. >> yeah. >> dr. phil: and so you have said -- and this is a quote from the book -- you said "i'm writing this book from the grave. i have no one left.

i have nothing left." who in this world do you love? who in this world do you still feel connected to? >> i wish i could give you -- i'll be back in a minute. i didn't invent this life of mine. i wish i could lie to you. you know? the only people that can break your heart are the people that are in your heart. cops didn't break my heart. but the people that you love are the only ones that can hurt you. and what i learned in that year in a can when all my relatives were coming saying here, sign this, sign that, that they were all gone. it's true. i don't have a family. i don't have any friends. and i don't have any money. up until now, i didn't think i would ever have a career back.

and i was willing to settle for that. when i'm out in the world, if i just keep any mouth shut and nose clean and act like them, i'm okay. because it's an ugly dog eat dog world out there. if you ain't counting your change, you're going to get screwed. trust me. >> dr. phil: are you crazy? do you think you're crazy? or do you think the world is crazy? >> by most people's standards, i'm committable. [laughter] by my standards, they're crazy. [applause] and they don't know it. >> dr. phil: a lot of people don't know that you started with "the little rascals." you were one of the first in that cast. on page 61 of your book, you said i'm in public school where i never should have been. i'm being bullied and tortured on a daily basis and so terrified to walk to school

because the kids used to tease me, throw rocks at me. you said held rocks and in fact, they threw cups of hot pea on me. how does that happen? >> well, if you have a grammar school full of kids and 20% of them are miserable tortured souls who have awful home lives and want to kill their parents and can't admit it, they're all looking for a punching back. i was the stranger. i didn't belong to any groups. i didn't come from anyplace. i didn't get there till i was like ten years old. and i was the movie star kid. >> dr. phil: you say jay leno bullied you. >> jay leno kicks everybody that can't fight back. mommy and daddy think it's

funny. so that's what little kids learn. i saw jay leno one day. i was riding my motorcycle. i went to this joint called the rock store. he shows up and i'm watching. he walks over here to sign some autographs. i walked up to him. i said one of these days i'm going to find you without your himchmen and i'm going to rip your face open. he has never talked about me again. not a word. when you scratch a bully, you always find a coward. >> dr. phil: sometimes people don't know if you're serious or if you're kidding. i get the feeling when you talked to jay leno, you were serious. >> i'm still serious about that. if i found jay leno alone, i would settle for putting him in the hospital. i'd rather do worse but i'd settle for putting him in the hospital. >> dr. phil: see, the thing i wonder -- >> i have to say this. >> dr. phil: go ahead. >> one more time.

i have no people skills. i never have had. [laughter] i'm not house broken. [applause] i'm not house broken. >> dr. phil: next, robert blake will explain what happened the next his wife was murdered. [applause] >> dr. phil: you never took the stand in the murder trial. so i ask you now so you can say it publicly. did you kill your wife? [ female announcer ] when the spark ignites... go ahead be spontaneous because you use replens long-lasting feminine moisturizer. millions of women like you trust replens to stay hydrated and rejuvenated to be ready for romance, anytime! replens -- the feminine moisturizer more women trust.

[applause] >> dr. phil: i'm here with robert blake. his memoirs "tales of a rascal" can be brought on amazon.com. that's me saying that it makes him feel awkward. he's not really about promoting. this is a very interesting read. you talked about in the book and i don't want to spend the whole time talking about that trial because there's a lot more to you than a trial. but let's get that out of the way. you've said several times there were crooked cops, there were crooked judges, there were just crooked people involved. when you were charged with the murder of your wife and ultimately acquitted, did that ruin you? >> no.

when that trial was over, everybody loved me. not only because i had been entertained since i was two years old, but because i beat the cops in a lousy stinking awful ugly rap. and i owned the world. i was on top of the world. i shouldn't have even gone to a civil trial. i was broke. what you do is just say hey, nolo contendre. you make a decision and put it on my list if i owe $5 or $5 million. but i wanted to kill myself after that. >> dr. phil: you say there are crooked cops and crooked judges. you're specific in these people and how they used this case to enrich themselves by writing books and getting famous and that sort of thing. but you never took the stand in the murder trial. i ask you now so you can say it publicly, did you kill your wife? >> of course not. that's a -- >> dr. phil: did you shoot her in the head?

>> a weird thing for you to ask. >> dr. phil: no, i didn't. you didn't take the stand and people need to hear you say that. >> sure. you can hear me say that. of course i didn't kill my wife. not only that i didn't kill her, but all the evidence proved that i couldn't have killed her. that it was physically impossible for me to have done it. >> dr. phil: one of the things you're talking about, you had a gun on you that night. >> yes. >> dr. phil: they tested that gun. the gun had not been fired. it was not used in in killing. so clearly she wasn't shot with the gun -- why did you have a gun? >> i carried a gun for about three or four years. i spent a lot of time in south central working with gangs and i had some really scary experiences there. i so -- and i got a permit to carry a concealed weapon. so i got in the habit of carrying it and it was comforting. >> dr. phil: did you hire someone to kill your wife? >> of course not. >> dr. phil: you say of course not. >> let me put it this way.

i was worth $25 million. i'm in hollywood. and i wanted somebody killed, would i be involved at all? wouldn't i go to some lawyer -- you go to lawyers in hollywood. they go to somebody that goes to somebody that goes to somebody. and then somebody goes to a state where my wife is and she disappears. he doesn't get -- he disappears off the face of the earth. would i be stupid enough to say, okay, i'm going to take her to dinner tonight. [laughter] you're going to kill her when i'm not looking. right? do we have a deal? i'll have a deal with you. we're going to get her killed and i'm going to be there because i'm that [bleep] stupid. [laughter] >> dr. phil: so you would have a better plan. >> i mean, i'm stupid, but is there any logic in the universe to a man who has $25 million at

his command to wind up doing something that crazy? >> dr. phil: what about the night she was shot? you went to dinner. >> we went to dinner. when we get back to the car because i kept the gun back here. it wasn't there when i sat in the seat. it wasn't there. and i said, oh, my god, i left it in the restaurant. some kid will pick it up. what's going to happen. ran back to the restaurant. got the gun. came back. and bonny had been shot. i didn't know she had been shot. because it didn't look that way. i thought that she had had a seizure or something like that. and i got out and started running to houses and banging on doors trying to get somebody to call for help. and that's what happened. >> dr. phil: do you have any idea who would have shot her or

why? >> what i think? bonny had a illegal ilicit kind of life. i think that she had a lot of enemies because she burned people. that's the name of that tune. >> dr. phil: you dedicate this book to your daughter, rosie. you said "for rosie all eternity." how old is she now? >> she's 10 years old. i want to kind of leave that alone. i'll make this deal with you. i promise you that if i ever decide to talk out loud about what really broke my heart after this murder trial, spending a

year in solitary in the can ain't nothing compared to what happened to me afterwards. if i ever decide to tell anybody that and i'm still above the ground, you're still above the ground, i'll come here and i'll tell you. >> dr. phil: fair enough. let's take a break. [applause] >> if life was that easy, there wouldn't be any need for any dr. phils to fix anybody. nobody would be sick. it don't work that way. i don't care what people think of me. >> announcer: tomorrow on an all-new "dr. phil." >> dr. phil: you believe that your son's death was not an accident. >> announcer: a shocking new twist. >> what she's saying is not true. >> announcer: to a bizarre mystery. >> dr. phil: you have new evidence. >> what you don't know is that -- >> announcer: that's tomorrow. tasty l'il critters gummy vites complete contain key vitamins without artificial colors like red dye #40.

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>> dr. phil: i'm here with actor and authors of "tales of a rascal," robert blake. robert, one of the things -- >> i want to say this again really quickly. >> dr. phil: go ahead. i'll get back to ya'll. >> when i came out here, it was like once again when i was three years old and they threw money and they applauded because i danced for them. i never think about people liking me and stuff like that. i'm not that kind of person. i got it from entertaining them for generation after generation. that was my home. when i sat here, i felt like it's been a long time, but i'm home again. that's all i have in life.

that's all that god ever gave me. >> dr. phil: do you care about anybody? you have grown children. you have -- you have rosie. you care about those people? >> i said i don't have anybody. i kind say i didn't care about anybody. >> dr. phil: right. but you do care about them. >> i care a lot about them. >> dr. phil: there were times you were not taking good care of yourself. you talked about this. [laughter] this is robert talking about being addicted to drugs. take a look at this. >> i'm a dope fein. which is why i'm tired right now. the lack of sleep doesn't kill you. i abused any kind of upper. dexodrine, all the drines and all that. the downers, second and all, two and all, three and all. doesn't make a difference what it is. if you cook your shoes and i eat them and makes me feel different, i'll steal all the

shoes you got and eat them myself. >> boy, that guy is pretty pathetic. what are you doing with him on your show? >> dr. phil: did drugs get in the way of what you love? did they get in the way of your career and get in the way of you being an entertainer? >> no, not at all. i was probably the most successful dope fein or juicer that you'll ever meet. all of a sudden it fell apart once and i wound up with a 357 magnum in my mouth. that's the way it was. when it came apart, everything came apart. nothing left. >> dr. phil: now i get to ask you my question. >> finally. >> dr. phil: god forbid if you die next week, next month, will you die alone? >> yeah. it's a sin to die alone.

but i would. i don't care about dying. i've been dead before. it ain't that big of deal. i'm honestly serious with you. i want to live, but i'm definitely not afraid to die. i've been there. that stuff in the middle scares me. i don't want to be in a hospital with somebody feeding me oatmeal and reading me the papers. >> dr. phil: but if you die in that apartment alone, nobody would know is what you're saying. you have no relationships. >> i guess i never thought about it that way but it's true right now. >> dr. phil: you have no relationships. if you died in that apartment, we'd find you two weeks lawyer. you have nobody to go to lunch with. you call in the morning and say how is it going. nothing. >> let's say i don't know anybody by their first name. and i've been -- >> dr. phil: is that a failure? >> there's a lot of things about my life that are a failure. >> dr. phil: is that a failure? >> i failed as a friend, i

failed as a husband, failed as a father. what the hell haven't i failed at? i couldn't take advantage with many of the gifts of life that most people have quite easily. they expect to be around people that love them and want the best for them. i expect to be around losers that want me dead. so it's a long reach for me to say, okay, i'm going to change all that. i'm going to have nothing but wonderful people. if life was that easy, there wouldn't be any need for any dr. phils to fix anybody because nobody would be sick. it don't work that way. [laughter] i don't care what people think of me. i don't care -- i care -- when i go to bet at night -- >> dr. phil: you do care what people think of you. >> i don't care -- >> dr. phil: you do care what people think of me. >> i care what people think of my performance.

>> dr. phil: when you walked out here -- you were not performing. when you walked out here, these people warmly and respectfully welcomed you and it moved you. you do care. don't tell me you don't. >> i care about it as an artist. i assumed they were applauding the fact that i've entertained them since i was 2 years old, not that i happen to be the most handsome guy in the world or the most charming guy in the world or the most delicious human being in the world. when i go to bed at night, i talk to god. hey, boss, how did we do today. that's all there is. if i had to start caring what people think of me, i'd blow my brains out. i don't have any people skills. >> dr. phil: all right. don't do that. >> don't do that. >> dr. phil: let's take a break here. we're going to come back and one of the things that robert talks about in this book are something that are very special to him. because he says throughout his life there have been angels. there's been angels that touched his life and shared with him. we're going to mention and honor some of them when we come back. we're going to mention and honor some [ male announcer ]me back. it's simple physics...

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>> if you would like to be in our audience, go to drphil.com and click on be in the audience. >> or click on 323-461-phil. >> dr. phil: why do people like natalie woods, like why did she love you so much? >> because natalie was like me.

natalie had the same life as i did. we were soul mates. there's been other people in my life -- >> dr. phil: she was an angel in your life. you said she was an angel. >> oh, god, yes. whenever and wherever. there was never a time -- >> dr. phil: who else? >> barbara walters saved my life. that quote right there, what an amazing book. she was an angel that came out of nowhere. >> you came back to the car and found your wife shot. what did you think? >> god, i wish i could. >> if you didn't kill bonny, who did? >> i believe in my heart, some man, 10, 15, maybe 20 years ago, because she used to get married. i think she destroyed a lot of lives.

and don't ask me how she got that interview. everybody wanted to interview me and nobody got it but she got it. two days later she saved my life. how did i wind up on your show? how did i wind up on your show? where did that angel come from in your staff that kept banging the hell out of my head until i finally listened to? >> dr. phil: this is astra austin. she's been working with you the entire time. >> that's my pal. [applause] >> dr. phil: so why did you not give up on him? >> i felt that he needed to be heard. and all of the bark and bite that he had i really don't believe that that is entirely who he is. >> dr. phil: he says he has no social skills. you could attest to that. >> i agree. [laughter] [applause] >> he needs to brush up on them. >> dr. phil: really, you would call her and she would call you and you say hey, toots, who do you think you're talking to

here. >> i said get the hell out of my life. she sent me an e-mail. she said you have to examine your relationship with god. you might be an angel. all of a sudden you got very smart and very shrewd and very cool and you got the crazy man out of the cage and brought him here. [laughter] >> dr. phil: well, let me tell you, she's the best of the best. you're not dealing with some chump there. >> i'm not dealing with some chump here either. this is a great day for me. they're not too bad either. it don't get any better than this for me. >> dr. phil: astra and i talked about this. she said do you want to do this or not? >> how did she get you to call me? >> dr. phil: she said, trust me, i want you to call him. i have a lot of confidence and faith in her. she doesn't ask me to do that very often. i do it almost never. she said, he said he will not talk unless you tell him that you have actually read the book. he doesn't want your staff telling him.

he wants you to look him in the eye over the phone and tell him you read the book. >> he went through all that stuff -- >> dr. phil: i think people have a way of going through life. i think you have a philosophy of going through life -- i think you feel like you've been hurt, i think you feel like you've been betrayed, kicked in the teeth and i think your attitude is if i don't care, it won't hurt and i'm going to get them before they get me. but i think the truth is, i think you do care. and i think you do want to connect with people through your art, through what you do. i think that's a great way to connect with people. and i hope you do. because i for one don't want to get up and open the paper, get on the internet some day and say -- >> they found him. >> dr. phil: -- robert blake was found in his apartment and presumed dead two weeks. i don't want that. i want you have to have somebody

in your life and get in the game. [applause] and i think god will put you back in the game. >> i'm glad you didn't start the interview this way because it is true. i did invent a junk yard dog. that became me. people said leave him alone unless you're ready to shoot him. it did keep people away. >> dr. phil: i think you see the world as a very hostile place. i think it was a stretch for you to come here. i have one last question for you. if this is the last interview you ever do, what is the last thing you want to say if people are never to hear from you again? >> play that clip of me singing to rosie. >> dr. phil: "over your shoulder." ♪ the end of the rainbow ♪ my pot of gold ♪ your daddy's little girl

♪ to have and hold ♪ the precious gem is what you are ♪ ♪ your daddy's bright and shining star ♪ ♪ you're the spirit of christmas, my star on a tree ♪ ♪ you're the easter bunny that got sent to me ♪ ♪ you're beauty and joy and you're god's favorite toy ♪ ♪ and your daddy's little girl ♪ ♪ your beauty and joy and your god's favorite toy ♪ ♪ and your daddy's little girl ♪ [applause] chóíñwfoñ-e#

>> dr. phil: i want to thank my guest, robert blake. robert blake's memoirs, "tales of a rascal" can be bought on amazon.com. and the only thing i have to say is just make up your own minds about robert blake. you've heard what he said. the only thing that i really have to disagree with, and i meant to say at the time and i'll say it now, i know jay leno really well. i've known him a long time. he's a good man with a good heart. and he makes jokes about me like he does other people. i think sometimes we just have to kind of roll with the punches. a lot of jokes have been made about him and he makes a lot of jokes about others. but he's a good man with a good heart. we do disagree about that. drphil.com, looking for your comments. thanks for being here. so long! [cheers & applause]