A Beverly Hills teen has called in help from Dr Phil after her mum cut her allowance back from US$5000 ($6650) a month to US$1000 ($1330) a month.
Appearing on the Dr Phil show alongside her mother Nina, 15-year-old Nicolette told the famed psychologist she couldn’t live off such a small amount of money. I mean, that won’t even begin to cover the cost of a Gucci handbag.
“I can’t deal with this,” she said.
Nicolette went on to explain that she’d basically grown up with a certain standard of living, and anything less than that was… Well, let’s not even think about how unimaginably horrific that would be.
“I grew up on a certain lifestyle. She just can’t take that away from me immediately,” she said of her mum.
“If someone took that lifestyle away from her, she wouldn’t like that. And I grew up on it, it’s all I’ve ever known.”
Aside from saying she’d spent $133,000 on her daughter in the past year alone, Nina stayed rather quiet throughout the whole segment.
But Nicolette isn’t completely unreasonable – she said she’d be willing to reach a compromise with her enabling mum.
“I need at least US$2500 a month,” she said.
