Youree Dell Harris, aka Miss Cleo, is pictured on Feb. 24, 2009, in Lake Price, Florida.
HBO Max on Thursday launched the primary trailer for an upcoming documentary about Miss Cleo, the ’90s TV psychic recognized for the favored catchphrase “Name me now!”
The teaser for “Name Me Miss Cleo,” premiering on the streaming service Dec. 15, reveals varied audio system reflecting on the lifetime of the tarot reader, whose authorized title was Youree Dell Harris.
“Who’s the true Miss Cleo? The online of tales, it appears, is much and vast,” one particular person says.
“Cleo might have been a personality to deal with no matter was happening in her life, but it surely was nonetheless very actual for her,” says one other.
Actor Debra Wilson, who parodied Miss Cleo on the sketch comedy sequence “Mad TV” within the late Nineties and early 2000s, can also be featured within the video.
“Don’t be fooled by considering what you understand is the entire story,” Wilson tells the digicam.
The brand new documentary touches on a few of the main controversies surrounding Harris, who famously pitched pay-per-call companies on TV commercials with a faux-Jamaican accent.
Amongst them is a federal lawsuit from 2002 that was filed in opposition to Psychic Readers Community, the hotline enterprise she promoted. The Federal Commerce Fee finally introduced that Psychic Readers Community and Entry Useful resource Providers, the corporate behind the hotline, had agreed to forgive roughly $500 million in excellent shopper fees and pay a $5 million wonderful.
Harris died in 2016 following a battle with most cancers. She was 53.
Senain Kheshgi, the director of “Name Me Miss Cleo,” informed Deadline in a press release earlier this 12 months that Harris “might have been an confederate or maybe a sufferer within the … [Psychic Readers Network] fraud however she additionally had expertise and persona, which for girls doesn’t at all times translate into entry or wealth.”
“Her story is an instance of how brown and Black girls have traditionally been marginalized and exotified in society and fashionable tradition,” she added.
