Photos Using Too Much Memory, Housing Photos that don't exist

I have an Iphone X. Things were going fine, until this last update this week.

For some reason, all of the photos I have stored in ICloud are now -- allegedly -- being stored on my phone.

It says I have over 100K photos on the phone, but as the image below shows, even with the recently deleted folder there are only around 7K. And like I said, these extra 100K photos were not being stored on here before last update.

I have previously (like six months ago previously) turned off all ICloud settings for this device, because having that many photos cripples the phone regardless of how much storage you have. Which is where I am now. The thing crashes with every app opened and is totally useless.

I need these 100k Photos it says I have on the phone gone, so it can even send texts and make calls.

What do I do, short of deleting all photos from the entire ICloud?

Things to Consider:

- I will NOT enable Icloud Photos on this phone under any circumstances. You can only delete 1000 photos at a time off of the phone, so it took forever to go through 100K photos and get them off the phone so it will function. I will get rid of the phone entirely before I do that again.

- The "Empty Recently Deleted" option does nothing but result in the Settings app crashing, and no photos get deleted.

- There are no third party photo apps on this phone.

- Pictures below should show Memory is fine/ICloud settings disabled.