The Truth About Dr. Phil's First Wife

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

Dr. Phil McGraw's first wife, as profiled in an article by The Kansas City Star (as archived by Recordnet.com), was Debbie Higgins, later Debbie Higgins McCall. At the time of the 2002 interview, McCall, a former cheerleader, was working as the manager of a liquor store. She explained that she married McGraw on November 27, 1970, before splitting with him in 1973 due to his interest in other women.

In a 2002 interview with Newsweek, McGraw stated, "We never had a cross word. We just sat down and said, 'Why did we do this?'"

No confirmed images of McCall appear to be available online. However, an obituary was published in The Kansas City Star in 2014 for a woman named Deborah Higgins McCall, who was 63 years old at the time of her death (via Legacy.com). The U.S. Sun reports that McCall's brother stated that she died of cancer.

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