A rep for Harris said that she was a “pillar of strength” while battling cancer, and that she passed surrounded by friends and family. I say, “Who?” She say, “Miss Cleo”.
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“I have clients in New Zealand, Australia, a few here in Toronto, a bunch all over the US, Jamaica, obviously”, she said to Vice.
Iconic TV psychic Miss Cleo has died at age 53, TMZ is reporting.
She was born in Los Angeles but found fame as a Jamaican TV psychic in ads that ran from 1997 to 2003, according to the Daily News.
If you were around in the ’90s you’ve used the phrase “Call Me Now” in a Jamaican accent a couple of times or twice in your life and had a good laugh.
“The reason it’s scary is because in my personal experience, black cultures throughout the world have a more hard time accepting homosexuality in their family”, said Harris, who at the age of 19 gave birth to a daughter before she and her husband divorced when she was 21.
“Nobody really talked about it”, she said in the 2006 interview. She had two daughters.
Miss Cleo was best known for her Jamaican accent and the phrase “Call me now!” on TV infomercials in the late 90s.
“They didn’t want people to know anything”.
“I’m a proud voodoo woman”, she told the Spokesman-Review in 2009. “I never got into any predictions with her, but she’s a very spiritual lady”. “When you grow up in America and you’re Caribbean, your parents beat it into you that the only way to succeed is by dropping the patois”.
Psychic Readers Network and Access Recourse Services also had to settle a civil suit in Florida and charges in eight other states.
In the following years, she voiced a character in “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” and appeared in a documentary called “Hotline”.
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Chron reports the famous Jamaican character was created in 1996, when Harris worked as a playwright in Seattle, Washington.
