Nadya Suleman told TV host “Dr. Phil” McGraw on Tuesday that she fears the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in California won’t release her eight newborn babies.

“What she is telling me is that unless and until she has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the children to her,” McGraw tells The Los Angeles Times.

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Suleman, 33, has taped two episodes of McGraw’s syndicated show, the first of which airs today. Part two airs Thursday (check your local listings).

Suleman, a single mother who already had six children before giving birth to octuplets Jan. 26, lives in southern California, with her mother in a three-bedroom house that is set to be auctioned off on March 5. She owes more than $23,000 in back payments, a source tells Usmagazine.com.

She has no job and is on food stamps and disability income for three of her six older children.

“If you don’t have plans in place you need to say so, so we can help….People need to know you get it,” Dr. Phil tells her at one point during their interview.

She replies, “I think I’ll fully get it when they are ready to come home.”

McGraw — who has interviewed Suleman and her mother Angela at length — said in a statement to Us that he believes Suleman “is very loving.”

But he added, “I see somebody that has such a Pollyanna disconnect with real-world realities, and what she’s getting ready to face, it’s like she’s on a Disney ride.”

Still, he urged, “We can’t turn our back on this woman without turning our back on these children.”

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