

He’s “actually very tight” with psychic medium John Edward, who hosted the sci-fi show Crossing Over with John Edward, and is also in touch with Theresa Caputo, aka the Long Island Medium on TLC. “When you’ve seen so much loss and so much death and just the fragility of life,” he says, “there are certain things you do.”įellow famous mediums, Henry says, also provide a sense of community.

To avoid them, Henry says he makes sure to get regular checkups and always puts on his seatbelt when getting into a car. Because he hears about death all day at readings, he’s hyperaware of the accidents that can happen. So, for him, that means the steady strokes of painting, for example, or showering every day at the same time.īeing extra cautious helps Henry ease his health-related anxiety. No, not altars in dark closets kinds of rituals - anything repetitive, Henry says, helps him decompress. So, how does Henry maintain a normal life with all this going on? Basically, keeping rituals helps. In addition to his collapsed lung, Henry says that when he was 18, he had to have emergency surgery due to a brain cyst, which he accurately predicted ahead of time.

Though he’s been plagued with health issues since being born three months early, Henry says he knows his ability has “worn him down” over time. “It’s like Life Alert, but the boyfriend version!” he says.īut Henry’s gift can also cause far more sinister side effects. When Godwin called his family, he found out that the accident had “just happened.” One time, Henry told Godwin he needed to contact his family because he was afraid his grandmother was going to fall through a wooden deck. He tells Tudum that he’ll often read Clint Godwin, his boyfriend. In Episode 1 of Life After Death, Henry reveals that he once read his mom when he was a teenager. When that happens, Henry says he acts like a “mailman,” feeling a sense of duty to deliver the messages. But sometimes, messages just come through for relative strangers, like in Episode 2 when he receives a message while volunteering at Project Angel Food. Henry describes modulating them as if he were twisting a “volume dial” scribbling, for example, helps him connect with the afterlife. Part of that act, he continues, involves turning up and down his abilities when he needs to. “I have to create some degree of compartmentalization, so I don’t take all those feelings and emotions as my own,” he says. Henry tells Tudum that, though he can never fully turn off the psychic impressions, he’s learned to live with them. But, for his own health, can Henry ever stop receiving messages from beyond? And what kind of effect does that have on a person? Life After Death offers an inside look into what it’s like to live everyday life connected to another spiritual plane - the good, the bad and even the somewhat-spooky. And readings make me feel older, and because of that, I can’t envision myself as a 70-year-old because I’m already so tired.” “I feel old, though, that’s the thing - like on the inside. “I hope I live a really long lifetime,” he says in Episode 9. And, in one episode, Henry shares that he once suffered a collapsed lung just before a live show, which put him in the hospital for “months.” Before live shows, he’s sometimes unable to even answer the door for room service because he’s so inundated with impressions. But in his new docuseries, Life After Death with Tyler Henry, Henry reveals the mental, emotional and, yes, even physical toll of being a medium.Īfter readings, we see Henry bathing and painting to get rid of the lasting anxiety. He was just 20 years old when his first show - Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry - premiered on E!, and since then, he’s written a memoir and performed live shows for thousands across the country. Tyler Henry is no stranger to the spotlight.
