A still from the documentary Call Me Miss Cleo on HBO Max.
Podcaster and comedian Ashley Ray unpacks whether the backlash against Miss Cleo was appropriate, her place in popular culture today., podcaster and comedian Ashley Ray joins host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about whether the backlash against her was appropriate, and Miss Cleo's place in popular culture today.: I want to talk about Youree Harris — that's Miss Cleo's real name. How did she start first making waves in the psychic hotline game?: She started in the theatre.
In basically a year, she had generated more income by herself than a combined team of psychic callers. That's when they were like, "We've got to do something with this lady and really make her the centre story." They didn't mind that she was playing a character, because at the time all of these phone lines made it clear that they were for entertainment purposes only.
Was she seeing that on the back end? In Florida, she did have a nice house. She was making a lot of money, but it was temporary. She also was not getting nearly enough of that $24 million as she should have. She at one point was served, and she had to file for bankruptcy. So again, it's this thing where she created this character, but pretty quickly when the Psychic Network saw how much money they can make off of it, they started basically controlling and owning her.
I think she probably could have been a tarot-reading Oprah had things gone her way more. I think that's why as a character she stuck for so long, because she really did almost reach this sort of Oprah-level of presence and brand recognition…. You can just say, "Call me now," and people know who and what you're talking about.
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