TV psychic Miss Cleo dead at 53
Miss Cleo, the psychic whose future-telling abilities were showcased in infomercials that were a staple of ’90s TV, died Tuesday. She was 53.
Youree Dell Harris (above), the real name of the Los Angeles native who used the power of tarot cards to show her callers the way, succumbed to colon cancer that had spread to her liver and lungs, her rep confirmed to TMZ.
She was a “pillar of strength” in her final hours, surrounded by friends and family at a Florida hospice.
Harris transformed herself into a clairvoyant with a Jamaican accent who urged viewers to “call me now” — a role she played through 2003, when the Psychic Readers Network collapsed amid a federal probe.
“I come from a family of spooky people,” she said in a 2014 interview with Vice.
Harris, a mother of two, came out as a lesbian in 2006.
“This is me. I don’t want to hide,” she told The Advocate.