Jerry Springer Show producer quit after sickening moment hit me like a sledgehammer

As one of the most controversial television shows in pop culture history, those who worked on “The Jerry Springer Show” were bound to run into some moral and ethical dilemmas behind the scenes. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Toby Yoshimura – who stars in the newly released two-part Netflix documentary “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action” – opened up about his harrowing experience as a producer, explaining why he turned to alcohol and drugs as a coping mechanism and detailing the terrifying moment that ultimately made him walk away from the show. “I’ve worked on this a lot in the last decade, multiple decades,” Yoshimura, who worked on the show for the first season in 1991, then again from 2006 to 2008, said of giving himself grace after leaving the show.“I didn’t think about any of it.

I was trying to survive.I was trying to – we were just working week to week to get a show-up.”It wasn’t until one particular incident that Yoshimura questioned, “What am I doing?”“I wasn’t doing well.

Emotionally, the pressures of that show were kicking my ass,” he said in the documentary.“Stuff starts to grate at you about things that you ask people to do in the name of entertainment.”“I remember one night a woman called the show because she wanted to tell her dad to stop ordering her at the website that she was a hooker on because they’d send her and she’d have to do the job.

This had been going on since she was 16,” he continued.“We had them under aliases in different hotels, and they didn’t know where each other were,” he added.“I went over to her hotel first just to see how she was doing.

I knocked on the door and her dad opened in a towel.She came to the door.

You could tell that 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—ing trigger.”Yoshimura told Fox News Digital that was the final straw.“It h...