Rosemary Altea

Rosemary Altea
Born
Rosemary Edwards

Leicester, England
OccupationsSelf-described medium and healer
Children1
Websitewww.rosemaryaltea.com

Rosemary Altea (born Rosemary Edwards) is a British author who describes herself as a medium and healer. She has appeared on various programs, including Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and featured in Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, becoming one of their most watched episodes. She was a regular guest on the Leeza Gibbons Show and Maury Povich Show, and was interviewed by Roseanne Barr on the Roseanne Show. She has been featured on international prime time television shows including Prime Time Live with Diane Sawyer, 20/20, NBC Dateline, This Morning in the UK and the Maurizio Costanzo and Carlo Nesti shows in Italy. She has written seven books and was the founder of the Rosemary Altea Association of Healers.

Early life

Altea was born in 1938 as Rosemary Edwards in Leicester, England to Lilian and William Edwards, and has two brothers and three sisters. Rosemary describes having had psychic visions from a young age, causing parents to threaten to commit her to a mental asylum. Her formal education ended at the age of 16 when she left school and then got married when she was 19. She has one daughter born in 1970. She divorced and fell upon financial hardship at age 35.

Career

In November 1981, Rosemary describes how she had a vision at night, after which she felt open to the possibility of a spirit world. The same year, struggling to make ends meet and take care of her daughter, she began charging £3.50 per session for psychic reading and adopted the name Rosemary Altea.

On 26 January 2007, Altea appeared on Larry King Live with skeptic James Randi. When asked on the show to take the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, she argued that she "[doesn't] believe there's $1 million".

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wong, Jan (14 December 2011). Lunch With. Random House LLC. ISBN 9780385673488. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rosemary Altea: Biography" (PDF). William Morris Talent Agency. 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2007.
  3. ↑ Shermer, Michael (1997). Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York: Freeman. ISBN 0-8050-7089-3. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Altea and James Randi". Larry King Live. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2006.

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