Miss Cleo
In an interview with The Advocate magazine, famous television psychic Miss Cleo (real name Youree Dell Cleomili) admits she's 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."[Miss Cleo] 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."
So great of Cleo to clear up the whole shaman/psychic confusion. One time I thought I was visiting a local psychic but it turned out the guy was just a shaman. I should have known it, too—the guy had "elder in his community who has visions and gives direction to people" written all over him. Talk about embarrassment. Pie on my face!
