Theresa Caputo | Not Skinny But Not Fat

you guys it's a special day Teresa Caputo is here I'm so excited to be here and to meet you I'm so excited you're here thank you we were just talking about just like we we're just starting to record how crazy your fan base is how young people old people middle everybody loves you knows you grew up with you like your demographic is wild really is sometimes even like at my live shows they'll be like young kids like seven eight years old what yeah I said if I ever said to my dad at 8 years old can you buy me tickets to go see some lady that talks to dead people my dad would be like are you freaking crazy no way wait that is crazy yeah they'll come as fan but you know you don't realize you know how death really does impact people young and old so whether if they lost a sibling or even their grandparent it was someone in their life that they really felt a connection with and young children are able to connect with spirit so I think sometimes for them they love to come also cuz it validates things that they might be sensing and feeling wait when you say young people you said so casually young people can also connect with Spirits yes young children and animals are actually more connected that I believe we all can connect with our own loved ones that have passed away young children more so because when things go on and you actually got your first what do do you call them Visions or your first connection or M my first experience when you were four I was four I remember it vividly what did you what do you remember there would always be a woman standing at the end of my bed she would never say anything um I would also have experiences also of just hearing things and people calling my name there was no one around and I didn't know who the woman was until I was almost 30 I was in my grandmother's house and I saw that it was just this one picture picture and I'm like Graham I'm like who is this woman and she's like that's my mom she's like you know who she is that's my mom I'm like oh my God I'm like that is the woman that would stand at the end of my bed when I was a child growing up when did she die how she died a couple of years before I was born so you see this woman at the end of your bed for so many years were you haunted by it did you accept it did it scare you well I used to as a child growing up I used to wake up with blood curdling screams okay and my mom would literally they would my par would come running upstairs like some like they were expecting to see like someone hurting me or like blood all over the room like that's how bad the screams were as uncontrollable screams and then it wasn't until I got older I had blocked it for some time and um it wasn't until I was almost 30 that I realized that I was not only sensing my own loved ones but everyone else's and the reason why I would freak out so much is because Souls bring me through their passing so they will make me feel what they felt as they died so that's what would trigger my anxiety so like if someone passes from something in the chest they'll actually labor my breathing you know um if someone passes suddenly um tragically and they want their loved one to know that their soul immediately left the physical body they'll hit me in the back of the head like I'll feel like somebody tapped me in the back of my head so I feel physical things go through this though without going crazy and without having their family you know put them away yeah well exactly I always say that my parents if I didn't have the parents that I had I don't know where I'd be cuz they they believed you right away well I come from a very spiritual family um and a strong faith family so they kind of embraced you know be like oh okay you know and I I would just say things that were like okay that's odd or you know but no one ever really made a big deal about it a lot of things I didn't also convey to anyone because the moment would pass mhm the moment would pass and I would just be nonchalant be like yeah Mom the you know you know my mom would be like I don't wonder why that babysitter is not coming back but I'm like well I told her to tell the lady to stand out you know get out in front of the TV I can't see the TV and there was no one in the in the room but me and the babysitter so and what about classmates and teachers and stuff so school was very difficult for me um being in a classroom you close that door and I would see the energy then would be trapped in the room and I would sense and feel things and I would always feel that I had to get out of the room that's like iol Teresa now yeah it was I never I didn't want to leave my house I didn't want to leave my house for the longest time and that's the crazy thing and here I am you know I live on a tour bus I travel all over brought my live show not only in the United States but you know over to the UK so it's crazy that's what I was thinking too is like you're such a personality and I wonder like if like you're you have this gift right do you feel chosen like how does it I do you like chosen in a way well I feel that this is my soul's Journey here in the physical world you know I struggled with my gift for many years probably almost a decade because I couldn't understand why I would be chosen for this or this is what I was supposed to do and then I went through okay this is great I can sense and feel other people's loved ones but who's going to want to come and see a medium who's going to want to talk to the loved ones that have died I couldn't understand that and what I learned is that unfortunately no matter who we lose or how they die we're sometimes left with burdens and guilts a should have a could have a would have and only if so we're questions yeah we're left with um you know what if I was there more what if I checked in on them more what if I spent the what whatever it may be and or any negative emotion it doesn't give us the ability to heal so I put my gift in God's hands and I said if this is my soul's Journey then open the doors and I will walk through them with my gift did you have were you able to answer that question like the why me do you understand why you I don't ask that you don't ask it I don't ask it I I used to I really didn't get the answer because here I am I just said if this is what I'm supposed to do then open the doors and I'll walk through them so okay this happened started when you were little then you're saying you embrace it and figured everything out in your 30s yeah and then became a medium come see you yeah so I I was doing it you know out of my home I had a very large uh clientele if you'd say um and uh Courtney Mullen Who You Met My manager she's the one that unfortunately she lost her dad and uh she's been involved in television and she came and had the experience and it changed her life and she said everyone should be able to have that experience after the loss of a loved one wow and she asked me if I wanted to do a television show I'm like all right I you know so I thought I was going to like film a couple episodes and you know go on with my life you know they used to make fun of me because I'd be like filming for the show and I'm still making appointments and then they're like oh she realize what's happening I had no clue like you didn't think it would blow up like this no absolutely not never in a million years I feel like you still don't really get it no I don't get it cuz even on your new show on Lifetime y that's coming out by this time it will be out you say like I can't believe this is happening and I'm like how doesn't she believe it still can't you already had a show like we said before everybody knows you well like when you said it like oh my God she she loves you she's been I'm like it's still like what or you know seeing a billboard or or you know being on a a TV show being on your podcast is just it's crazy to me still I mean I'm just Teresa that's a what makes you so special and we also talked about you still live in in Hicksville I still live right next door to the house where I grew up in can we petition to change the name of the place cuz like it's so unfortunate no no no actually they just renamed my blog of several years ago um in memory of a little girl that passed away yeah does it have a connection with you like did you I actually did read them yeah wow yeah she she was sick she had cancer and she passed away several years ago so they named the street after her wow that's you know I was thinking about you and thinking like I'm a person with anxiety and what does what's the root of like my anxiety and I'm sure a lot of other people's anxiety is death the end of the day we're scared to die right sure and that's why a lot of fears and you deal with death every day all the time does make you less scared of it I'm not afraid to die I I don't want to die but the reality is I will but I'm not afraid to die you're not no you know my my assistant Lindsay she's not here today but um she lost her fiance in a car crash re recently and she said to me one day um and it's still she says you know we live this every day and she said I never thought in a million years it would happened to me so I mean and she had said that working for me and being with me for for all these years has really helped her Embrace what has happened you know her whole life was taken from her in an instant so wow and it makes her feel more comforted knowing that he's there just not here right and does that is that what comforts you about death knowing that like it's not the end in some ways correct that's why you know people use the word closure and I'm like I don't I don't like that word because I feel I guess closure maybe an emotion but we still have that connection we will forever have that Soul Bond with our departed loved ones that is something that will never change and what I want people to believe and to know when they either watch my show or just listen to this podcast is that there truly is an afterlife that we are greeted by our departed loved ones when we leave the physical world and that there is an afterlife and to know that all those things that go on around you that might it might remind you of your loved one that has died or you just think of them know that that is them know that that is their soul letting you know that they're experiencing life with you at that exact moment wow do you ever picture what it looks like the afterlife I do but I you can't I'll find out when I get there so so when you see the people like do you see them somewhere so I see I just see I just see them like I see shadows and Silhouettes and then they make me feel things I can't explain it I don't know how it works I wish it was something really cool that I could tell you that happens but it it just happens and that's why I just blurt things out do you have people close to you that died of course yeah you do and are you able to connect with them whenever you want I can I always say my own family gets screwed out of readings all the time why because because like it's the same thing like if you sense and feel something you kind of second guess it right like you I feel as a medium when I able to do was to validate for you that it's real so I second guess it too if I get things I'm like oh why would I be getting that like I knew that so when did you first tell your kids well my kids that's how my kids grew up I mean so it wasn't like break it break it down for them no it wasn't it was more oh yeah CU my kids were in school you know everyone's talking about oh my dad's a teacher my dad's a police officer my mom's a nurse there's my kids my dad's an Italian importer and my mom talks to dead people oh my God did they did they ever struggle with it in any way no I just don't think they really it just wasn't weird to them yeah it wasn't you know I was also thinking that it could be annoying for you like people come up to you as fans but also can want you to read them sure in that moment or you know well for the most part when first of all people when they come up to me I appreciate them right because they are the ones with their support continue to give me the ability to do what I do right so I love and appreciate them more than anything and I'm going to say majority of the time 95% of the time they're just like I don't want to bother you I just I couldn't I had I could not let this opportunity go by to say thank you how you've helped me can I get a picture okay so usually is that's basically it so usually it's not okay we need to talk about how the hair started cuz there was a flashback to like your your wedding day and what she wasn't born with this hair ladies and gentlemen well I had pretty cute hair back in the day I mean I had the Shag I had the pigtails I had big hair I had Nails you had it all but it wasn't this exact do that you've had for so how many years has this happening this is probably happening for I'm going to say 11 years so um well you have to understand I just why I tell people listen don't ever if you having an emotional moment don't ever go to your your hairdresser that is the worst mistake you can ever make cuz that's what happened to me yeah my grandmother had passed away and um I was having a really bad day and I had just gotten a keratin and I went back to have my hair trimmed and I just sat in the chair and cried and cried and I just said to can just cut it cut it it's not the right length and I ended up with this short that's how I ended up with my short hair I had not had my hair that short since I was in seventh grade when I played soccer and I had the darthy h haml remember darthy ham that that was the last time I had that short hair so you got short hair in an emotional I mean who doesn't know an emotional moment and then and then how did it evolve to this I just I wanted to let my hair grow again yeah and I like I I like I just don't like my hair in my face uhhuh you know I just cuz my ha then I constantly put my hands through there so my nails will get stuck in my hair then you know if I have food it gets stuck so I just like my hair off my face do you know what they say listen big hair a lot of secrets in there no secrets there's no it's a lot of teasing and hairspray that's all it is folks and you can do it on your own too I can but very difficult on my own oh really it's hard to get the real bant and what about is it ever not like this at home oh absolutely just look just look at my Instagram I'm a hot mess oh okay yeah listen when when you when I this is how I've always been when I go to work yeah I have my hair and my makeup and I'm dressed I'm ready for work I'm ready to conquer the day no matter what it is you know I mean back in the day back in the 80s I mean if I had have my hair and makeup done it was you know red lipstick and sunglasses and you were out the door yeah that was the old trick but so everybody knows you probably in your small town too right yeah and it's wild ask you before if you ever got the itch to move to like LA because you're you are in entertainment you have to go for work but no you stayed where you grew up up mhm right next to your parents too right and never got the itch never got the itch how do you explain that I just love it maybe separation anxiety I don't know I just love it I mean I've lived on that block for 51 years wow so I just love it I feel comfortable I love my neighbors it's just and to be able just to be in your home yeah you know I mean I don't have a gate or anything or you know you don't have a reg just a regular block and people probably people know like where you live and stuff they do okay on your podcast hey Spirits you read you read people yeah and we talked about this before because I was telling you how I like seeing people in person it's easier to connect with them but you're able to do it over Zoom as well sure were you aware that you could before like the Zoom thing started cuz I was like when Co I feel like is when Zoom got big that's when it got well that's when it got big for me yeah um I'm not good with the technology so but did you know were were you scared then mightbe maybe it wouldn't come through you know I've never you know people have asked me that aren't you scared and you know that and it's because I always say things happen they're when they're supposed to and spirit knows what we need not what we want they know what we need to make tomorrow a little bit easier so back back then I did phone readings you know 20 years ago I used to do phone readings for people only for people out of state and I always did because I wanted people to have that experience in person yeah there's nothing like it but people say it when they have the experience over Zoom they're like I felt like I was in the room with her and the cool thing that I love about the zoom is like spirit will describe things in the house who's in the Next Room what they have in front of them I can't see that you're not even there so it's even I'm not even there yeah so it's even crazier for the it is for the person you're reading that is wild and what I wanted to say before about you is like you're such a character like obviously you're you're you're like an Entertainer too obviously you have a live show like you have so much Charisma like this gift working alongside that is just incredible it's just me you know it's just me I'm just I don't know how to be you had the gift and you were boring you know yeah you had this gift nobody nobody wants someone boring that talks to dead people cuz I feel like you always make it so fun for your how do you call them do you call them clients I I um for people that are grieving yeah I I call them my my uh family yeah because I I consider them part of my family like I think of people um I hold them dear in my heart and pray for them and their families you know this is it's tough we need the levity with these messages you know there are certain things that I want souls to how I want them to communicate um and it's for several things you know I learned over the years of doing what I do this only so many different ways that people can die common burdens and guilts that we might carry so I of spirit validate these things with unique things that no one would ever expect someone to bring up and talk about so that's why I think it's also if you want to use the term fun or you know um lighthearted because spirit will bring up things that happened years ago that someone might have forgotten about because they were too busy focusing on the negative yeah they bring up and talk about things that have happened since they've died they bring up and talk about things that you haven't shared with anyone else maybe a conversation that you had with someone last week and the thing that I love the most besides the levity is also their personality because what better way to validate that from the moment your loved one's Soul leaves their physical body they leave behind every disability ailment or suffering they do not take it with them on the other side so they're okay on the other side they are completely healed and then the Soul goes through transitions of learning so they can grow and so do you believe in reincarnation I do I I I I believe that we do I've done past life regressions where I've visited past lives and have seen people in my life now in past lives wow and it explains a lot of my for me a lot of my anxiety and quote unquote phobias well you talk about your claustrophobia which I really too I have that too you said you were it's mostly like suffocating yes from like Fabric or something like that I do not like anything over my face so what about a like a tanning bed no those old tning beds okay you're going back cuz I used to do those yeah listen I'm from the 80s oh how I did didn't have anything else very creative what oh I used to lay with it open I did of never close it I made sure that I could slide out so as long as I could slide out and back then I was thin so you know I could fit through the crack you left like a crack absolutely and I could slide it and then I used to do the face machine okay I got you yesterday I met somebody who did uh that the the what are they called the beds and I was like that's one of my biggest I'm claustrophobic too biggest fear and also I think they had some scary movie where the the girl does get trapped in one I mean I've seen that like lived out you know I would never watch a scary movie I'm afraid of the dark I sleep at a nightlight come on I mean you're afraid of the dark yes of course I am oh my God I do not like the darkness my my daughter gets mad at me because I'm always like with Melina when she puts I'm like it's too dark in there she needs a nightlight and she's like Mom do not put your fears on Melina because you're afraid of the dog I'm like well what if she wakes up and she can't see she's like she's fine wait and what about like uh closed spaces like airplanes um I'm fine with airplanes elevators was a struggle for me but because I go in them all the time yeah um I it doesn't bother me anymore some of them are really creepy yeah um and I'll take the stairs right but um I took your elevator a little creepy it was good I went I went in the freight elevator so you you gotta know which elevator to take no I I mean because you know death is such a number one fear to know that someone like you who has such a connection with death has other small Fierce like lights like the light being turned off is crazy you hear about death you hear about the the most horrible ways people are dying every day how does that not infiltrate into your life and make you like morbid because I think that the souls of The Departed show me that they are at peace and what I do brings peace and comfort to someone it's not about believing in what I do it doesn't matter to me if people believe in what I do I want them to believe in themselves I want them to believe in an afterlife you know I lived a very beautiful life um I may sheltered in a sense and really naive um and to hear the way that what people go through there are some people that come for a reading and they don't want to live anymore they don't know how to live after the loss of their loved one and um you know to be able to watch someone's smile and to find a purpose again in in life right I wouldn't change not one thing that I do I feel like most people leave you with a smile what if the Departed tells you something that you think would upset the person that's there well look I mean it could be upsetting because their loved one died you know I treat Spirit like my kids if you have nothing nice to say then you don't say anything okay you you go to the back of the room what the spirits like tell her she was a [ __ ] [ __ ] when we were when we were married no you know Souls you know the interesting thing that I find with that is Souls will say you know I was difficult I we did not see eye to eye I'm sorry so when a soul says that they're sorry to someone it means that they had to relive their life through someone else's eyes they'll take responsibility for their part so it looks like they did healing absolutely that's part of the Journey when we get to the other side that's I feel like that's a really comforting comforting thing to know another comforting thing that you say to a lot of people that come to you if it's true are like when you say to them they went without suffering I feel like that means that means a lot to those wondering and and there are others that say you know what it was it was a little difficult but I you know I saw my father or I saw my brother waiting for me you know with and or the moment they start to leave the physical body they feel that peace I mean it it I mean listen I know this is going to sound crazy but I still say to myself how could this be this is crazy after every reading I do whether it's a live show a private reading or something with the new show uh raising Spirits I sit back and I'm like are you kidding me that was crazy because it's always something completely insane that Spirit has me say or they have me talk about that's like how would I know know that right and then I'm crazy enough to say these things to somebody that's the other thing that's what I was thinking too you know I was thinking about you do you still get shocked by the information or the sometimes you you feel it you were saying your throat the back of your head you like ow could you be more gentle yeah well it's not it's not like it's not like I'm getting be you know it's just something that I feel I can't I can't explain but and I it used to um was frightening before cuz I didn't know what it was I thought it was me I thought something was happening to me I thought I was dying or something was you know right so until I started to understand that these are not my feelings not my emotions um is when I was able to understand what was happening to me because there a lot of different symbols for things yes so there's not only a lot of different symbols but there's a lot of different meanings for symbols so like if somebody shows me roses I have so many meaning for roses red roses is love and devotion someone's anniversary either a wedding or their departure yellow roses is someone's name as Rose or someone just love the color yellow so how do you know which one it is does it get I show they they'll show me yellow roses okay and it's and it's not like I don't hear I just know that I'm seeing yellow roses it's it's weird it's it's weird were you ever worried or did you have the thought that you're going to pass it down to your kids like your did your kids ever did it cross their minds well I think like I said I think we all have the ability oh right you did so I I think we I know we all have the ability to connect with our own departed loved ones what I feel I'm able to do is to validate some people have a stronger connection um have you ever met anybody like you oh sure yeah yeah oh some people uh actually just recently I met someone but a lot of people don't know what to do with it they don't know what to do with their gift or how to uh navigate through it right would you know how to explain that to someone if someone came to you and was like I'm I think I feel a little something well I would I would just share with them what works for me and then hopefully that will find them on their path to help them on their on their Journey because look it's not easy doing what I do I say this all the time I make what I do look easy it's the hardest thing that what I have to do is to channel someone's loved one and then trying to bring them peace and comfort and even laughter in a moment it's really hard but this and not everyone is made or built to do what I do right and you have to be like I was saying like so strong to also comp compartmentalize a little bit and not let it take over right your life when you walked into that restaurant and the the the hostess on your show you knew how her mom died from like a fire oh God which was so and she wasn't a Believer she said she said that I would have never believed yeah you know well I don't think every day someone comes walking up to you and saying you know who died in a fire you know did you did you ever see the parody like Kate McKinnon did on SNL she's like did she do you yeah she's like you know it's only a New York on Long Island when you walk up to someone in the grocery soore it's like did your brother die and the woman's like yeah yeah my brother died yeah I need to see that oh my God McKennon doing you is like goals she's amazing yeah um you did you came up to the girl she said in an interview later she's a total nonbeliever but yeah she couldn't believe that you that you knew that cuz she was like you walked into a random restaurant how would you know do you have to ask somebody's or what's your rule like do you say do you want to know no I I feel if Souls uh like I've been feeling things as I'm sitting here but Spirit hasn't pushed me enough to get me to actually say something because not everybody wants to or feels the need to hear something M um so what was happening was um three times I felt I I was having difficulty swallowing so either somebody couldn't communicate in the end Andor there was something down their throat or they were restricted in their throat in some way somehow and then I was shown that somebody missed the departure Where They Carried the burden of not being there when their loved one took their last breath or felt that they should have been there then there was also an accident because I just started to taste blood so that means that someone passed tragically so either they passed in a car accident or there was a lot of blood at their departure or some type of bleedout inside wow there were four souls in here right now four souls in here but you see like that's the other thing I it could be for someone that left the room right you know I don't have that that I don't know unless you really tried to connect with it mhm so sometimes I'll just say certain things um and then if someone acknowledges it then they're meant some people don't want to hear I will never push a message from The Souls of The Departed on someone if they don't want or maybe they don't need it at that time because I want to be able to deliver messages that are going to help someone at that time right you're not trying to because like people are afraid to go to a psychic let's say right yeah because they're afraid the psychic's going to be like you're never going to get married you're not going to have kids you know you're going to die tomorrow yeah like that's not what I do I I'm very adamant like if a soul comes forward and says oh you know what you can have another child or like if you're talking if the spirit brings up things that you're thinking about doing or wanting to do with your life I take that moment and stop and I say to that person listen this does not mean that this is what you're supposed to do this these are your free will choices it's your loved ones acknowledging that they know what you're thinking about and if you choose to they support your choices and decisions not that you have to or that you should they're your choices that there's four souls so but pass tragically is that correct very unexpected um and where because there was also a father figure so a father figure could be a grandfather an uncle or someone like a dad to you my grandfather so know that he's present um and know that the soul that left the physical world in a very difficult way know that the soul is at peace but were you supposed to see her or be with her yeah we're supposed to see what she okay because she says I don't want you to feel that you should have made a choice to come see me do you understand that so that's why I got the Restriction of the throat before and also of the breathing so know that she says I oh she just showed me that you wrote something about her or you pay tribute to her did you Regina wait wait wait it's crazy I thought you watched the show you know you know this happens she she didn't think she she was hoping she had just told me this she and I was like don't expect like any but she told me about her friend that died of Co right before you came we literally sent a message to our group yesterday CU like oh wow her and we sent a message yesterday okay so so here's the thing she acknowledged she showed me the piece of paper and wrote my hero on the top of it that's my symh for where someone wrote something about someone thanking them for the beautiful tribute when Souls talk about things that we're doing it means that they were present for the exact conversation so know that she know knows and she says no one will ever forget about me were you going to get together and do something for her um we got together like after she died we like did a whole like celebration for her so know that she wants to thank you so even if you don't do it again and again it's okay cuz she showed me like releasing balloons lanterns and things like that you did that yeah oh my God so know that she knows what you did and more importantly that her soul attended it in spirit wait did you take pictures when you re released the items cuz she goes oh you could see me in the pictures so look for like if there's like a silhouette or like a blurb or an orb know that that's her I'm dying thank you what but wait your grandfather's so cute he goes could I say something yeah a is your grandmother still here in the physical world or did she just pass no my grand my grandmother passed like right after oh okay cuz I saw so what he did is he handed red roses to the physical world so that's my SIM for where they want to send love and devotion and it went to a mother figure so that's why I asked you about your grandmother but then I saw the greeting of the hands so know that the souls are together on the other side were you not expecting her to pass she had cancer but we we thought like she was going to be fine like she was going to we thought she got cancer because she was so sad she cuz she told me she died of a broken heart yeah she literally and no one expected me to die but more importantly go so quickly yeah the flowers outside of her house like died after she okay so that's even why look I also say this when Souls show me something it's they show me the sign or symbol to get me to say something to you it's up to you to place it on how it fits in your life so the flowers and I just got the chill did you get like a chill okay because I'm sweating and it's not from the menopause I think it's from the lights but I I asked her I asked your loved ones to move through you so you could feel them so sometimes it'll be a warm feeling sometimes it'll be a chill so know that that's their souls acknowledging that they're present more importantly that I'm just interpreting it correctly so it's up to you to place these positive messages in your life were you all going to get matching tattoos my friend for my my friend yeah okay so know that she knows it this doesn't mean you have to get the tattoos or that you should get them get the tattooos the thought of it get them no the thought of it means the absolute world to her even if you never get them knowing and wanting to do something in memory of someone means the absolute and then she looked at me she goes I still can't believe I frakin died no she yeah cuz she comes in her dreams and my friend's dreams and she she says like it was all a joke like I'm still here with y'all like no one can believe it so two things with that when I don't dream of my loved ones that have died so I share that with people so you understands that when a soul visits you that's a truly special moment it is their soul showing you that they are okay and she is correct cuz her she is still with you just in a different way that's interesting you said that I wanted to ask you that about dreaming about yeah The Departed that does mean something yeah but but some people connect in that way some people don't like I don't connect with my loved ones in that way I've only had one dream of my grandmother one dream wow all my other loved ones I have not had a dream and I just don't connect with them in that way probably because I just see them all day long so if you guys missed that because you didn't hear Regina Regina works with me she's here she loves Teresa she asked me before if she was like I wonder if she'll read me I was like you can't don't ask if if it happens it happens she was not expecting in this at all and she got very emotional that you that her friend who passed of Co I mean you guys heard Teresa she she she knew it she sent her all the messages from her friend and thank you that was really special well I would say thank her don't thank me thank you thank you for being with us today I mean what a special what a special day you guys have to watch Teresa Kabuto's new Lifetime show Raising Spirits like we talked about for you had a show on TLC for years yeah and we said how crazy it is that you're surprised that you're like having a show again how is this different how does it feel different doing it today it feels different because I'm Different my life is so different um and it's you know you're really getting to see a lot more of what it really is like for me on a day-to-day basis not just yes of course there still the readings but it's more of like my own personal life me being out on the road like you were asking about you know my my assistant out on the road right you know you get to see a lot of that because people just think it's so great it's glamorous and it's not it's far from right no I was I was thinking what a what a great idea for a show where it's your personal life because everyone is interested in you too like what's going on in your house you live next to your parents your daughter lives with you like it's there was craziness 247 yes um and I wouldn't have it any other way I'm sure I wouldn't change a thing even though you kind of wanted your daughter to move out my own space I mean come on I'm 56 you know yeah are you ready so has she moved out as of today you'll have to watch oh you'll have to watch cuz you did get divorce after a very long marriage about five years ago yes but you are like isn't wasn't it scary the idea to live alone then after AB absolutely absolutely and you know and I'm I'm fine I'm great you know I always tell people too you know just because Larry and I are divorced we're still a family yeah so you know he lives in California I'm still here in New York but um you know we're still friends and we're still family we have children and grandchildren together so do are you dating I am You Are I Am how does terresa Caputo meet people I it's not at the cemetery no I'm only kidding I was GNA ask like are they with us are they not with us yeah what do you mean the no I mean I was kidding I I always tell people when you go to the cemetery you're bringing your loved ones with you they're not waiting for you at the cemetery I don't bring them with me they're they're with you you brought them here with you you know dating is different I mean I met Larry I was 17 wow yeah so it was it it was very very difficult and it's still I still say I can't believe I'm divorced yeah you know I me we have a family together and it's how do your how did your kids take it cuz they were older it's not like they were young not easy you know it's still hard you know no one wants to see their their parents get divorced right you know but you know they could they could see we both weren't it just wasn't working what worked you know 30 years ago wasn't working anymore and I think you know I always say that that's something that I was very proud of Larry and I you know to realize and to recognize that what we were doing wasn't working anymore and we tried right so we're better friends than we were married I know so many people stay because it's easier or because of because of oh you know so what like we could just be friends and live together or no but no you wanted you chose like to to live your life and fear was my middle I was afraid of everything and to be on my own and to have this and it's just really I mean I really have evolved we we all have so so did Larry and to grow and that's what we're supposed to do here in the physical world right we're supposed to grow and learn and evolve and it probably feels empowering absolutely and especially now that you're on your own yeah it's it's scary um you know and and I'm not going to lie I mean I do miss I I do miss him but in a different way are we gonna see you dating on the show no no not at all okay we're not getting that personal no because it's different it's not you know it's still my family you know dating is different now it's not you know I don't know I I can't explain it like how it's different you mean how it's different you know to you know to be with someone that um that you didn't grow up with right you know I'm still friends with my friends from when I'm 14 you know everyone in my life they've been in my life for decades so it's it it's not easy it's not easy and I want to be you know independent I want to be on my own I don't I want to have that Independence you know in a relationship yeah you know well you know what I think I think you can make it whatever you want yeah it doesn't have to look like it did right exactly it look different you could be on your own and have somebody you go on nice dates with just enjoy and you know like a companion to have someone to enjoy your life with to have fun with and you know I got my stuff they got their stuff because we all got stuff and to keep it separate is such a beautiful thing because I think forward to this chapter for you yeah thank you thank you it's exciting um an important question I do talk a lot about pop culture and celebrities and what I do can you talk so a person needs to you need to be in the presence of someone who's connected to the someone who has passed maybe you can't just like choose to talk to like Elvis I can't say you know summoning no it doesn't work like that they come oh they come they can choose to come to you even if you're not sitting with someone related has that happened with any yes it it's happened when I'm in Old theaters if they' performed there before oh cool yeah very very interesting things that that that have happened do they usually end the conversation first or do you like do you I usually have to say look I gotta go I got I got like 5,000 people waiting you know right you didn't buy a ticket get out no I'm only kidding um is there anyone uh that you haven't got a chance to read yet or to communicate with from The Departed that you would really like to um that's kind of a hard thing for me because I don't um look at people I think we're all the same you know I and someone lost someone and I always say that if someone is grieving and no matter who they are if they want to have the experience I would consider it an honor and a privilege to be able to share my gift with them so it's not celebrity specific it's actually hard you're a huge fan of hard for me to read someone that's in the public eye because there's so many things out there about them and again I'm such a naive person I mean literally I mean Courtney's probably going to kill me for saying this I mean literally Brad P could walk by and I'd be like oh who's that and she'd be like it's Brad pck like you know I'm like or you know we'll be in restaurants and I'm like oh there so and so and you know yeah you know so it's right I see how that's harder too it's harder and and just because and sometimes someone um with their life in the public I feel like it's hard to kind of trust someone with that too right you know sometimes I think people and people in general depending on how their loved one died or maybe who they are or who their loved one was they're guarded in a sense right so well you are having you are having some names on the show I saw in the previews yeah Gloria Stefan oh my God and uh Amanda clut who lost her husband she was on my show and mean that story is Sweetest yeah and you were able to connect with Nick she had a beautiful beautiful experience good I'm excited to see that well thank you Teresa thank you I'm so excited that you were here everybody go watch raising spirits on Lifetime it's out on January 25th and we're so happy to have you back on our television screen yes well thank you I appreciate it so much I look forward to connecting with you in the future yes oh my God

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