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TV psychic Miss Cleo dead at 53

Anyone who watched TV in the '90s knows her voice: "Call me now!"

Anyone who watched TV in the '90s knows her voice: "Call me now!"

Miss Cleo, the face of the Psychic Readers Network and an infomercial icon, died at the age of 53 after battling cancer, TMZ reports. A rep for Cleo said that she was a "pillar of strength" before dying on Tuesday morning in Palm Beach County, Florida, where she was in hospice.

Cleo became famous in the late '90s and early 2000s as a pay-per-call psychic -- she was actually born Youree Dell Harris in Los Angeles, much of the Jamaican Miss Cleo was just a character. She had two daughters.

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In a 2014 interview with Vice, Cleo revealed how she got into the fortune telling business, claiming she came from a family of "spooky people" but did not actually consider herself a psychic.

"I come from a family of Obeah -- which is another word for voodoo. My teacher was Haitian, born in Port-au-Prince, and I studied under her for some 30 years and then became a mambo myself. So they refer to me as psychic -- because the word voodoo scares just about everybody," she explained. "So, they told me, 'No, no, no, we can't use that word. We're going to call you a psychic.' I said, 'But I'm not a psychic!"

Look back on some of Miss Cleo's best commercials below:

Meanwhile, Tori Spelling was recently named a celebrity spokeswoman for Psychic Source -- a service that offers readings for $1 per minute. Learn more about her endorsement deal now.

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