The Heartbreaking True Story Behind 90’s TV Psychic Miss Cleo

Celia Aniskovich, the director of the new HBO Max documentary “Call Me Cleo” joins our episode titled “Tapping Into My Intuition.” The eye-opening film chronicles the rise and fall of the controversial 90’s tarot card reader Miss Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network. Celia gets real about the myths and truths behind the self-proclaimed voodoo priestess like never-before. Trust us, after watching this, your mouths will be on the floor!

 
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[jackiesRVlife]

Miss Cleo was my Customer when I had a Bakery in Lake Worth, Florida. She always came and hung out with me.She was so FUNNY. She and I were both suffering from Anemia. She encouraged me to go get my Hysterectomy and it saved my life. I loved Her. I was so saddened to hear she passed.

[youlandaJF]

I like that she took on the responsibility to tell Cleo’s story, but still hiding in the shadows and not being honest when hit with questions, says to me you wasted everybody’s time. If you’re not ready to be honest, you should’ve left it alone.

[Tamendak]

Lord knows I dialed the number one night while I was pregnant and having relationship issues and didn't know where to turn and everything I was told was EXACT! She told me the sex of my fetus and alert me of health concerns my baby would have and she let me know my fiance was struggling with drug addiction and that his blood was toxic from stds contrated while we were on a break and he cried and admit everything so I am so thankful that I called because she led me on the right path I dodged what would have been a huge crisis in my life

[NashvilleBraids]

They made money off her while she was alive, and this lady is making money off her while she’s dead. Shame.

[rm]

This woman was too young to have ever seen a commercial with miss Cleo. Money is her motivation.

[OnlyKelz]

Ultimately, what I find to be truly sad is the fact that they used/abused this woman (for money) during her career, and they’re still collecting coins from her even after her demise; and to pick her apart to create a ‘persona’, meanwhile we can’t even learn about THE REAL HER because so much had been suppressed…for the financial gain/greed of others. Heartbreaking.
May this Queen rest in peace.

[TheChoralist]

Ms Cleo definitely could see the future period because my sister called back in the day and miss Cleo straight up told her that she was going to start a new life with a man who's name started with a "M" and she would bare a bunch of girls who'd be sickly & told her how to navigate it and stay strong because it would be alright in the end. Well what do you know! 8 months later she met her husband Mike who's real name was Myles & my sister over the years had 3 girls and literally all 3 were born very premature and small like 3 lbs and they all stayed in the NICU their first 3-6 months and went through trials with developing but now the youngest is in high school and the two older ones are 20 & 25 and their all healthy. Unfortunately my sister passed away in 2011 at 35 y/o when they were much younger so she didn't get to see them grow up past elementary & middle school🙏🏾🕊️ but miss Cleo definitely had the gift! Sadly it was exploited

[cookingartguy]

Miss Cleo was my neighbor down here in South Florida and I waited on her a couple of times also at a local restaurant. She was always very sweet and friendly. Was very sad when I heard through mutual friend that she had died.

[subsistence]

So tired of randoms taking history to market in their own way and for their own benefit. She literally has no answers 🙄

[OfficiallyTCMW]

This happens ALL the time! My father’s “dash adapter” invention was stolen and is in EVERY single car today but he has NEVER been compensated. Every time you plug your phone in, use a car lighter, put drinks in the armrest etc. Thank my father!

[christinegentry]

If Becky's going to profit off of Miss Cleo after death, why is she not answering Tamron questions properly? Guess she thinks it won't be noticed. Now because of this interview I may not watch. I don't want Her to get not one thin cent of my coins. 😠

[carmellem]

Notice how the girl never answered the question "Is she Jamaican?"....
And who is this child doing a documentary on Ms Cleo was she even around when the commercials were on 😑

[Zeek]

I cannot stand people who cannot directly answer a question. I will not be watching this at all.

[sherisetyus]

I remember her. I believe she had real intuition. And she was used as a result of it. The shame came on her because she was the face of the enterprise, while the real deceivers remained anonymous. We still don’t know who they are, yet those men are probably still rich!

[danettechavis]

I am sure Ms. Cleo wasn't Jamaican based on the evasion of the question! But what's more important to me is the manner in which this woman's "gift" was "pimped out" for service while depriving of the benefits received for that service! To hear she died "penniless and broke" while tagged as "a liar and a fraud" is a terrible miscarriage of justice. Because "justice" should not only have "cleared her name" but demanded restitution be paid along with compensation for "pain and suffering". If the Broadcast depicting her life as "Ms. Cleo" serves only to "ask questions" without vindicating her against the slander and accusations that resulted in her becoming reclusive, then it too is seeking to PROFIT off of this woman, offering nothing but an opportunity to ask questions for which they'll be no answers given! Because the one who knows is now dead and those who speak on her behalf, do so AFTER THE FACT when it mattered most when she was yet living. Ms. Cleo will not benefit in what is said, for she is no longer with us! The benefit is for those who speak attempting to "clear a conscience" for what "had not been said" in the time needed. What is the lesson here - if not "hide your gifts from the corruption of men" who will pervert it's intended purpose for the sake of "greed"? THAT will be the Legacy! Not words spoken to assuage ones conscience.

[MsAndaction]

I learned so much about Cleo by reading the comments. Thank you to everyone sharing their personal stories.

[michellewilkinson]

May she rest in peace. The young lady in this interview said a whole lot of nothing. She made money off of Miss Cleo too!

[IamRochelleRobertson]

Since the lady wouldn’t answer the question. She isn’t Jamaican. Any Jamaican person could pick up on the nuances in her accent and tell you that the second they heard her speak. Americans have a history of doing terrible Jamaican accents on film - look at cool runnings for instance. She could have been cast for that for sure. RIP though. This story is sad!

[ReaScantlebury]

I now feel so sorry for her. RIP; she was used and abused. However as an Afro Caribbean woman, I and all my other "West-indian" teenage friends of the 90's knew Cleo was a whole fake. Her accent was fake as well. Her accent was more fake the Denzel Washington's in the Mighty Quinn. Also, on a clip in one of her commercials, a person on the end of the line asked where she was from and she replied, the island of Maryland. There is no island/country in the Caribbean called Maryland. My friends and I nearly hit the floor with laughter. The Caribbean are full of people with the gift of sight, etc, unfortunately, Cleo was not one of them. People should not play games with spiritual things or faking gifts, it never ends well.

[bobbyj]

The only good I can perceive from this story is that we are living in a time where truth is being exposed for the sake of the mental and physical health of humanity. May God strengthen, keep, and help us all. ✨🙏🏾✨