Star psychic reveals it all (From Surrey Comet)

Star psychic reveals it all

10:24am Friday 23rd March 2007 in

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Framed cut-outs from magazines and newspapers adorn the walls of Sally Morgan's home.

"That's the piece I'm most proud of", she says, pointing to a piece where a Daily Mail reporter went undercover to expose her as a psychic fraud.

A medium to the rich and famous for over 30 years, Sally has read the fortunes of actors, royalty and politicians who, she says, are always reluctant to be identified. Robert De Niro, George Michael, Bob Geldolf and Uma Thurman have all confided in her, but her highest profile client was Princess Diana.

The Daily Mail article goes on to tell how the reporter went away with his tail between his legs after Sally correctly identified aspects of his personal life. Despite that, the A-list clientele, a three-month client waiting list and numerous articles, Sally says she still has trouble persuading people she has a gift. She is hoping a new ITV2 show about her will change that.

Sally has lived in the area for 12 years and shares her spacious home in Motspur Park with husband John.

With no cats, no hippie-style dress or incense sticks and a distinct lack of crystal balls, she looks nothing like the stereotypical psychic. It's exactly that kind of stigma she is trying to avoid.

She says: "I call myself a medium and speak to people in my home. I don't use cards or crystal balls and I want people to see that you don't necessarily need them to connect."

Very warm and welcoming, I ask her if she uses her earthiness and humour to disarm nervous clients and sceptical reporters.

She seems genuinely surprised to discover she does and she tells me she often gets emotional along with customers when events are too painful.

She says she warned clients of partners' affairs and says her readings can leave people very emotional. So when she began to speak about me I was a little hesitant.

The ITV series follows Sally as she is introduced to celebrities and is set tasks to test her psychic prowess.

She says those powers can manifest in several ways. Sometimes people appear in a vision, other times she hears things and recently she has developed an overwhelming feeling in her stomach. "I am always learning new things about myself and my gift," she says. "I can't turn it on or off, it just comes and then goes."

In one episode she reads former Big Brother winner, Kate Lawler. She says: "The first thing I saw was Kate in bed with two men and red silk sheets. She was so shocked and she said to me "Oh my God, that is one of my fantasies. I was only saying that to my friend three days ago", and so I said, "Don't lie, you were actually in bed with these guys three days ago".

"I could feel what Kate was feeling inside and she was full of remorse, even though she knew what she was doing with these two men and that is what made me want to cry."

Sally, who says she believes in God, is blindfolded in one episode and has to guess the job of eight contestants.

She says: "I spoke with one woman, who was a bellydancer. When we spoke I saw her tied up in a room with five men. She was struggling but couldn't get away. It turned out she had been raped by these men."

She's reticent about Princess Diana, "who was lovely but just like any other reading". She says the truth behind her tragic death still remains hidden. "The truth hasn't been revealed. This controversy will go on for another 200 years."

So what could she tell your humble reporter? She tells me I followed my heart to go into journalism and that I look like my dad. I'm not convinced that's psychic, but after some more questions she tells me I carry my dad's grief for his parents who died young and that my dad's mother walks with me.

She says my dad's mother is in the room and when I ask her what she looks like, she tells me she was a small, pretty, woman with shoulder-length hair, points later confirmed by my father.

It strikes a chord and I'm left slightly unsettled but I leave as I entered, not convinced but not entirely dismissive.

Sally is used to that reaction but hopes the show will not only be good television but show mediums in a credible light.

Sally says she was meant to do the programme. "I look upon Extreme Psychic as an opportunity to educate people about what I do, although I am certainly not a preacher."

You can decide for yourself by watching Sally Morgan: Star Psychic, on Friday 30 March, 10pm on ITV2.

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