Phil McGraw met Debbie Higgins McCall at Shawnee Mission North High School in Kansas City where he was a football player and she was head cheerleader and homecoming queen. The high school sweethearts married in Roeland Park, Kansas, on Nov. 27, 1970. They were both 20.
The couple moved to Topeka, Kansas, where Phil McGraw began running a health spa and motivational seminars. Debbie Higgins McCall says he became domineering and shut her out of the business. She left him in 1973, and the marriage was annulled.
