Sylvia Browne is coming under fire after the television psychic told the family of Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry that their daughter was dead.
The case made national headlines this week when Brown and two other kidnapped girls were found safe in Cleveland . But for the family of Amanda Berry, that does not undo the heartache caused by Sylvia Browne.
Browne was a weekly guest on The Montel Williams Show , and in 2004 Berry’s mother Louwana Miller appeared to talk about the case.
As Miller pleaded for her for information on her daughter’s whereabouts, Sylvia Browne, got it completely wrong:
Miller: Can you tell me if they’ll ever find her? Is she out there?
Browne: She’s — see, I hate this when they’re in water. I just hate this. She’s not alive, honey. And I’ll tell you why, here we go again. Your daughter was not the type that would not have called you.
Miller : So you don’t think I’ll ever get to see her again?
Browne : Yeah, in heaven, on the other side.
Brown was correct on the last prediction, though it does not appear to be intentional. Berry’s mother would die of heart failure two years later — her family said she died of a “ broken heart ” after her hopes of a rescue were dashed by Browne’s vision.
Now Sylvia Brown has come under assault, with commentators calling her a “grief vampire” and her Twitter page coming under assault.
Watching Sylvia Browne videos on Youtube is a sure way to become very angry, very quickly. Like this one: youtube.com/watch?v=j_sdyT…
— Project Barnum (@ProjectBarnum) May 7, 2013
Sylvia Browne, the TV psychic who tells distraught parents where their missing children are, is often wrong. goo.gl/3geK0
— Matthew Newton (@newtonmatthew) May 7, 2013
In 2004, @sylvia_browne told the mother of one of the children just found in Cleveland that her daughter was dead. Mother passed in 2006.
— Dan Nicholls (@danielnicholls) May 7, 2013
Sylvia Browne has not responded to the allegations against her.
