This Q&A with former KSTP-TV investigative reporter Lorraine Roe, an Emmy winner, may read more contentiously than it seems on my startribune.com/video.
There's a wink in my voice and a smile on Roe's face as she attempts to control the interview about her becoming a psychic. She took umbrage, saying she was not trying to control the interview: "I was trying not to be put in a position to prove I was a psychic. It was more to explain to you my journey."
Her journey now includes a book, "The Psychic Housewives' Handbook," which she promoted during a recent appearance at Holistic Edge Expo. Roe wanted to do a psychic reading about me instead of answering the questions I was asking. I told her I wouldn't trust her reading 1) because I am a skeptic and 2) because I have been the subject of enough profiles that she could talk about things I've forgotten that have been written in magazines.
At the end of our verbal tussle, I let Roe tell me what she was dying to say by way of a reading: "You were a bratty child. I'm getting bratty energy from you now."
Despite my adult personality, I told Roe SHE WAS WRONG! We went around and around on this. She claimed my grandmother was talking to her, although she couldn't identify my great-grandmother was when shown a photo.
So I did an investigation. I put the brat question to my mother, my favorite brutally honest aunt, my sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Cross, and a church member who knew me as a child, Mrs. Cochran.
"I don't think you were a bratty child," said Mrs. Cochran, of Albany, Ga., on Thursday, conveying the consensus of all those interviewed on the matter.
Lorraine, believe whatever you must.