Monday, September 25, 2006
posted by Chi-Chi at 9/25/2006 | Permalink
Miss Cleo comes out of the closet
The Advocate magazine will feature an interview with late-night, super-psychic, Miss Cleo, and she's coming out of the closet!
"She's known for the catchphrase "The cards never lie," and now Miss Cleo, the controversial former infomercial psychic, is finally telling some truths-about herself.
From the late 1990s through 2002, the woman whose real name is Youree Dell Cleomili Harris was a late-night staple who, in a thick Jamaican accent, urged viewers to dial a charge-by-the-minute 900 number to have their fortunes read.
What those viewers didn't know, and what some members of her own family still don't know, is that Miss Cleo is a lesbian. Four years after the infomercials were pulled from the air under a cloud of various lawsuits and federal and state investigations, Harris says she has been inspired to come out publicly by a teenage godson.
"He and I started talking when he was concerned about coming out. He was 16. When he made the decision I told him I'd be there to support him 100%, and he embraced [coming out] wholeheartedly," Harris says. "It's a different vibe than when I was his age, being raised Catholic in an all-girls boarding school. But he was afraid of nothing, and I thought, I can’t be a hypocrite. This boy is going to force me to put my money where my mouth is."
On the late-night infomercials, Miss Cleo said she was a mystical shaman from Jamaica. Doubt was cast on that claim when a Florida newspaper reported that she had been born in Los Angeles. But Harris simply says, "I am who I say I am," and insists she has Jamaican roots. She says she's actually not a psychic but more of a spiritual counselor or spiritual adviser.
"I'm more a shaman, an elder in a community who has visions and gives direction to people in their village. My clients and my students are my village. I take care of this community. If you sit down at my table, you have to take away a lesson and not just learn what is going to happen tomorrow. I also perform weddings-both gay and straight marriages-and house cleansings and blessings. "
{The Advocate}
Damn first her tarot card reading skills were fake now she's comes out of the closet---she's a hot Hollywood E! news story waiting to happen! Anyone interested in hearing her life story! I think Macy Gray will play a great Miss Cleo, don't you think?
I still DON'T GET THIS STORY! First she's a con artist now she's a lebisan. Miss Cleo has some courage alright!