Hoarders

Manuel was living in his hoarded house with his four grandchildren, ages 5, 6, 7, and 9. They are the love of his life, but they were removed by Child Protective Services and Manuel won t get them back unless he cleans his act up. Meanwhile, Carla has had three failed marriages to men who cheated on her. As if to represent each husband, Carla has hoarded out three homes. Her family is trying to get her to at least clean out one of the houses so she can make a new start in life.

Susan `s addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Recently, when Susan was out prowling for more stuff, someone broke into the house, bound and gagged her wheelchair-bound mother at gunpoint, and stole some of Susan’s hoard. Michael’s father was a Nazi SS member in Germany’s Third Reich who ruled his son with an iron fist, even forcing him to eat his own pet rabbit to “toughen him up.” Now Michael is a hoarder and he and his dog live like sardines packed in a can of clutter.

Terry’s fridge is packed with dead cats, and she has another 50 live ones. Her son thinks her problems stem from the time her father died of a heart attack right in front of her when she was just a small child, and she’s felt guilty ever since that she couldn’t save him. Meanwhile, decades of hoarding has left Adelle’s house in such shambles that she’s using a bucket for a bathroom and doing laundry in a kiddie pool in her backyard. But Adelle can’t see the filth or the damage her hoarding has done to her family.

BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with hoards of stuff–and now are even competing to see who can bring in the most stuff. The two are locked in emotional combat–a real-life “War of the Roses.” Chris has filled his house and eight storage units with worthless junk that he gets for free. His situation is so dire that he’s gone without water and other basics just so he can continue to afford storage space for his garbage.

Jan is in denial about her hoarding–one of her daughters compares her to a venomous viper ready to strike if you dare talk about throwing anything out. Bebe was raised with servants and boarding schools, and her husband gave her everything she desired. But when her husband was murdered, Bebe s privileged life unraveled, and now her hoarding is so bad that she even steals stuff when she s at church.

A victim of abuse as a child, Diana’s hoarding became so extreme that her daughter was forced to sleep in a recliner because the trash had overtaken her room. But now a neighbor has blown the whistle on the heap, and the house could be condemned if Diana doesn’t clean up fast. Meanwhile, Dolores was once an antiques dealer with such a great eye for value that she even sold to Sotheby’s. But her buying got out of hand, and now she’s got a hoard that could catch on fire and burn her house down at any time.

Find out what happened to five of our most memorable hoarders years after they faced a crisis due to their hoard! Did the help from the Hoarders Team ultimately change their lives for the better or did they revert back to their old ways? Viewers will get a front row seat as our experts (Dr. Robin Zasio, Matt Paxton, Dr. Suzanne Chabaud, Dorothy Breininger and Standolyn Robertson) embark on a journey to find out the surprising results of Constance–the chicken egg hoarder who received a new house; Shannon–the woman who lost her children to child protective services due to the hoard; Kevin–the son of famous millionaire parents who had hoarded himself out of his Upper East Side NY apartment; Augustine–the woman who consistently chose her hoard over her children; and Ruth–a woman who buried the pain of the tragic losses of her husband and two sons by hoarding herself into the home.