What Psychic Sylvia Brown Didn’t See
Browne answers every question without pause, hesitation, doubt. This man will get a job at the Postal Service, “pretty high up.” This woman will be in a relationship in two and a half years. This man’s friend died of a drug overdose. Mystery solved. She’s always sure. Right away.
So it went on Williams’s nationally televised talk show, back in 2004, 19 months after a 16-year-old girl from Cleveland named Amanda Berry went missing. Here was Berry’s mother, Louwanna Miller, devastated, desperate for any news, any leads, any closure.
“She’s not alive honey,” the gravelly voiced psychic said flatly.
“So you don’t think I’ll ever see her again,” Miller replied.
“Yeah in heaven on the other side. I’m sorry.”
After the show, Miller described herself as “devastated.” When the news broke this week that Berry was alive, her mom wasn’t around to rejoice. She died two years after that taping of the Montel Williams show.
The errant psychic, on the other hand, is alive, well, and continuing to rake in untold millions of dollars a year with her conviction-borne predictions. She charges $850 for an individual 30-minute session. Her international speaking fees range from $75,000 to $150,000. She’s one of the world’s most recognizable psychics, she was wrong about Amanda Berry, and she has been wrong before that, too. Many times.