‘Jerry Springer Show’ producer reveals horrific story of guests that made him quit the show

A producer who worked on the Jerry Springer Show has revealed which story on the programme made him quit his job.

The Jerry Springer Show was a widely loved TV show that ran from 1991 to 2018.

It saw many people air their grievances with others, often their loved ones, on national television.

While it was successful, it was not without controversy as people’s real-life issues would often be trivialised for entertainment.

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Jerry Springer was a popular TV personality. Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty

A new two-part Netflix documentary, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, dives deep into the chaos behind the scenes, including the intense experiences of producer Toby Yoshimura.

In the documentary, Yoshimura reflects on the overwhelming pressures of producing the infamous talk show, cited by Yahoo! News.

“I wasn’t doing well. Emotionally, the pressure of that show was kicking my a**. I mean, stuff starts to grate at you, of stuff you ask people to do in the name of entertainment,” he admits. “But at the end of the day, my pressure was to please Richard. That was it.”

Yoshimura developed a complicated relationship with executive producer Richard Dominick, who became both a mentor and a source of stress. This dynamic ultimately led Yoshimura into a downward spiral.

“The only way I could deal with it was I was s**t-faced hammered for four days. Then I’d sober up and do my show and crawl back into a bottle,” he candidly shares in the documentary. “Then tequila stopped working. Cocaine was right on the heels of it.”

The breaking point came during a particularly disturbing interaction with a potential guest. Yoshimura recounts the haunting moment: “I remember one night a woman called the show because she wanted to call her dad to stop ordering her at the website that she’s a hooker on cause they’d send her and she’d have to do the job. This had been going on since she was 16, right?”

Despite his disbelief, the woman’s father agreed to appear on the show. “I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna get this f**king story, the dad’s not gonna come, right?’ And he came. And I was dumbfounded,” Yoshimura says.

After the taping, Yoshimura visited both parties, who were being housed separately under aliases. What he discovered was devastating.

“I knocked on the door, and her dad opened the door in a towel. And she came to the door. You can tell she was embarrassed. They’d just got done having sex. It was like putting two barrels of a shotgun to my head and pulling the f**king trigger,” Yoshimura recalls.

“That’s something that I don’t feel I need to contribute to. And that was the f**king end for me. I quit the show.”

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Springer passed away in 2023. Credit: Gary Gershoff/Getty

Despite his emotional collapse, leaving the show wasn’t easy. “I didn’t tell anybody. I didn’t even tell Richard. I literally packed my s**t into a truck and I was a no-show. I wasn’t responding or anything,” Yoshimura recounts.

Dominick, however, reached out to him. “I got a call from a number I didn’t recognize. It was Richard. He said, ‘You’re not coming back, are you?’ I said, ‘I can’t.’ He said, ‘I understand. Take care of yourself.’ And I couldn’t stop crying. I was broken.”

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’s widow has heartbreakingly shared that she found out about her late husband’s drug addiction while looking for an outfit for him to wear at his funeral.

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Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss passed away at the age of 40. Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty

The beloved TV star, best known for his appearances as the DJ on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, tragically passed away at the age of 40.

Boss’s body was discovered at a motel in Los Angeles on December 13, 2022. His cause of death was ruled as suicide by a coroner, and county officials further confirmed that the late dancer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, TMZ reported.

The longtime DJ was married to Alison Holker. The couple shared a son Maddox, eight, and daughters Zaia, five, and Weslie, 16.

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Allison Holker with her late husband Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss. Credit: Amy Sussman/BBMA2020 / Getty

In a new interview with PEOPLE, Boss’s wife revealed that she learned about her late husband’s drug addiction weeks after his tragic death.

The 36-year-old, who is also a professional dancer, said that she had found a “cornucopia” of drugs such as mushrooms, pills, and “other substances I had to look up on my phone,” hidden inside Boss’s shoeboxes inside their closet.

“I was with one of my really dear friends, and we were cleaning out the closet and picking out an outfit for him for the funeral,” Holker told the outlet.

“It was a really triggering moment for me because there were a lot of things I discovered in our closet that I did not know existed. It was very alarming to me to learn that there was so much happening that I had no clue [about].

“It was a really scary moment in my life to figure that out, but it also helped me process that he was going through so much and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that,” she added.