Elaine Culotti

I think we get here with some built-in desire, need, damage, I don't know what you want to call it, that feels like I have to fight bad ideas.

I am compelled to take on bad ideas, especially because I think they aren't uttered words.

Naively, I think that there's malicious intent behind bad ideas.

And I could give you a million different examples because I feel like Don Quixote tilting at windmills all the time.

But just, you know, these things do a lot of harm to the most vulnerable people.

and it pisses me off.

It makes me so angry.

I'll give you an example that's unrelated and I'm sure you're not expecting, but I've had to talk about it in the last 24 hours.

Oprah Winfrey has come out with this weight loss book that she wrote with a weight loss doctor that works with the weight loss companies after having already made hundreds of millions off of weight loss drugs and is now spreading the lie

that you overeat because you're obese.

And it's one thing to talk about the ways in which obesity impacts your hormonal balance and your satiety hormones.

But the reality is she's basically trying to disempower people and placate them and exploit their vulnerabilities to say, listen, in case you felt ashamed of this, in case you felt unworthy, it's not your fault.

you need these drugs.

And I'm like, you evil, you, how much money do you need?

Like, if somebody wants the drugs, by all means, this is America, talk to your doctor, you may very well be a candidate.

But to lie about the science and to disempower people in order to make a buck, especially when you are one of the richest women in the world, I'm like, oh my God, it's just...

Makes me so angry.

It's so much darker than that though, Doc, because it also negates any trauma, any eating disorders, the entire psychological piece, which you can speak to better than anyone.

That's a huge component.

If we were to honestly look at Oprah, she's got a huge amount of trauma in her background.