Interview with TV Psychic-Medium, Kim Russo

Psychic-medium Kim Russo
Psychic-medium Kim Russo

I first learned of Kim Russo when I happened upon a recent episode of The Haunting of…  and I was absolutely dumbfounded. I could not believe the accuracy of the information that Kim Russo received from the spirit world about her client, comedian Tom Green. If you are unfamiliar with LMN’s Saturday night series The Haunting of…, world-renowned psychic-medium, Kim Russo, revisits locations where famous celebrities have had paranormal experiences. Kim attempts to explain the unexplained experience and often unveils surprising personal details as she connects with the celebrities’ loved ones who have passed over. It is absolutely riveting television.

I immediately set out on a mission to speak with this amazing woman and was excited to learn that in addition to her duties on LMN’s The Haunting of…, Kim has a new show called Psychic Intervention that premieres Nov. 22 on LMN.


Read about Kim Russo’s life-changing new show, Psychic Intervention


Kim, why do you call yourself “The Happy Medium”?
Kim Russo: It’s not because I’m happy all of the time. That’s not the case. (Laughs) The Happy Medium is a slogan that I live by. I believe in balance. If you keep a balance in anything, you can get through it. There’s a balance between the living world and the spirit world. I like to maintain a balance in everything between body, mind and spirit. It kind of has a lot of meanings, but not because I’m happy all of the time.

One time in conversation, a friend was saying, “Wow, I guess you can’t find the happy medium, huh?” and I said, “You can find the happy medium!” So it stuck, and it was good.

Are you able to turn off your connection with the spirit world so you can have time for yourself?
I wasn’t always able to do that. It took me some time to learn how to set boundaries. I am able to do that most of the time. And when there is a spirit who wants to and is so determined to get a message through, I will honor that message because I know the amount of energy for that spirit to get my attention when I’m not listening. So I honor it. For the most part, it’s just like anything else; you choose to listen to what you want to listen to at the moment. There is a time and a place, when I start and I set aside time to listen to the spirit world. Just like if you wanted to listen to the radio, you turn on the dial. It’s the same idea for me.

Is that how spiritual communication manifests for you, like a radio?
It’s a frequency; it’s a vibration that I have trained my ear to hear and my body to raise into. So a medium raises her vibration into that frequency. We tap in, just like cellphones have frequencies. I am the receiver and the spirit world is the frequency signal. So yeah, I’ve trained myself. When a medium does this work, all we’re really doing is raising out vibration to connect to the signals that are out there in the universe. And they’re all around us.

When did you realize you had this ability? 
I’ve always been sensitive. As a child, I saw spirits in my bedroom nightly. I was really young but a vision I had at age 9 is the earliest memory that I have where I can talk about the physical description of what I saw.

During my childbearing years, everything was very different for me. I didn’t have random visions. I was just normal. I lived a normal life. After my third child was born, it was like someone turned on a water faucet, and the spirit world came to me as if to say, “Okay, you had to have your children and that’s what you signed up for, but now you also signed on to be one of our voices.” They came to me and showed me that this was my path.

I struggled with it because of my religion, so it wasn’t an immediate acceptance. I really had to do my research, and I had to learn about this world, and this gift, and this ability, and I had to know that this is really not about religion at all. It’s more about energy, which is more scientific than anything.

How did you start doing readings?
The first vision that I had after I had my children, was of a young girl standing in the doorway of my bedroom. I was making my bed, and I saw her. She turned her head and I saw that she had a burned face. Mentally, I heard her say, “I died in a fire and I’m from New Jersey. Could you please contact my parents?” She took me by surprise, and I dropped all of my pillows.

When I told a friend what I had seen and that I was getting all these visions, my friend thought it would be really interesting if I would do a reading for a friend hers.

At the time I wasn’t doing readings and I’d never done a reading. I didn’t know the friend and I tried it, kind of on a dare, or a curiosity. I gave the girl the reading, and I just started to get vibes. I really thought the girl was lying to me when she kept telling me that everything I was picking up was accurate. I thought she was just humoring me, but it wasn’t the case. The next day, that girl’s brother called me and asked if I’d do a reading for him. He had lost a close friend and he wanted me to connect with that friend. So it all started as an experiment and that experiment hasn’t stopped. It’s really incredible.

Where did the learning and the training come from?
The learning came from the spirit world. Every reading that I did, I learned a little more about how the spirit world communicates and how I can translate it. We were forming our own language. They started showing me symbols and signs and each reading I did, I learned a new sign. Every time I saw blood in my vision, it taught me that they died of a blood disease and now I translate that as diabetes, leukemia or AIDS. I’m self-taught from the spirit world.

And after that, I did readings for an entire year without charging anyone so I could learn the language. I looked at it as a spiritual internship and I felt that I shouldn’t charge because I wasn’t an expert yet. That way, if my clients didn’t get what they were looking for; it wasn’t any skin off of their nose. All they would be wasting was their time, and I would be wasting my time. So for an entire year, I did my internship — reading people at night, when I’d put my children to sleep.

I still learn. I’m still learning every time the spirit world communicates with me. Each spirit has a different frame of reference. But at this point, I’m definitely fluent in their language, and I can definitely hold my own in a conversant and understand what they have to say.

I can imagine that when spirits feel how receptive you are to their world, they get pretty excited. Do they clamor for your attention?
Yes! It’s like when you go to another country and you see another American who speaks your language, you gravitate to that person. You’re like, “They understand me, and they understand what I’m trying to say!” That’s how it is with the spirit world. They see an opening in me; they can tell that they can get through to me.

From what I’m told from the spirit world, there is a light that emanates from the top of my head. And now I can recognize it when I meet another medium. It’s a funnel-shaped light that emanates from the top of the person’s head and the funnel shape comes from a point at the top of their head and it flares out into a funnel and it’s made up of light. And I can tell that someone is a medium when I see that light. I was told that it’s the same as how the spirit world sees us from the other side. They can see the funnel of light coming out of our heads. And that means that person is a natural channel that they can filter messages through them.

Kim Russo
Kim Russo helps actress Vanessa Williams in an episode of The Haunting of…

When did your communication with the spirit world start to feel real to you?
It wasn’t real for me for a long time. I’m a true, born skeptic. I’m from New York and you have to prove to me that what you’re telling me is real. I just kept pushing it and pushing it and really challenging the spirit world when I was first developing. I’d say, “If this is real, show me this,” or “Show me that.” That’s just my nature. I’m sure the spirit world and my spirit guides were probably so upset with me! They must have thought, “What is it going to take for this woman to believe us?!?”

I’m a Gemini, and Gemini’s always want to know the “why” of everything. That’s a Gemini, and that’s me. Even as a kid, “Why mommy, why?” I have to know why in order to understand something.

Now, I’ve been doing this for so long, and with so much proof, they prove themselves over and over and over. At this point, I just accept it.

I’ve one so much research on it and my own spirit guides tell me things. Now that I know how to understand the language, it’s like a little whisper in my ear that I hear it and it’s a thought that’s not my own. It’s pretty incredible that you can tune into to this.

The Haunting of… airs Saturdays at 7pm ET/ 6pm CT on LMN
Psychic Intervention premieres Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8pm ET/ 7pm CT on LMN


Read more of my interview with celebrity psychic-medium Kim Russo including details on how you can be on her new show, Psychic Intervention.


21 Comments

  1. Kim, I never ever miss your show. I have a bestfriend whom has limited gifts & works alot with her meditation, crystals & stones. I have had so much loss in my life with passings of so many close family members, young & old & I’ve so much guilt trapped inside of me that I believe it affects my marriage. I am not at all a happy person for at least the last 13 yrs., don’t smile anymore, etc. I so so much would love to know what I can do to help myself? You are the greatest, most caring lady I have ever come acrossed besides my bvestfriend Tammy. love, Debbie

  2. I would like to know if there are any message from my deceased parents. I lost my mother in 1976 to leukemia. Didn’t know she was sick, she went into the hospital and died there. I was devastated for years as she was my best friend. She appeared to my husband, Ron in a dream. He thinks she was trying to tell me that she was fine but he panicked tried to touch her and she fell forward and disappeared in this dream. I tried to learn everything I could on afterlife. Had dream myself in the 1990s that I floated up and into space far away and came across white energy spirit clouds that I communicated with my mind. The message I received was to be patient, gain knowledge, be humble, and above all have unconditional love as this is the energy force that God emits. My dad died in 2008 of complications of lymphoma leukemia. I believe he suffered from schizophrenia by us kids didn’t know. My husband, brother Greg and myself took care of him 24/7 for a year before he died. He accused me of stealing money and conspiring against him many times over the years. I did no such thing and I want him to know, I always had his best interests at heart.
    God has given you this special gift, may you be blessed for the work you are doing.

  3. Hey I would like a reading with u Kim I loss someone and need closure I really believe u have a gods given talent.

  4. For some reason me n my boyfriend fight all the time we have been together for almost ten years can u help me

  5. My relative supposedly drowned in a pond since his death i have not healed from the pain and the suspiciousness of this all i keep having dreams of him and my family hurt so bad over this ……please i beg u kim please help i have been wanting to know the real truth b……ehind his death ……..please call me at 843-323-1930…..please help

  6. I think my five year old grandson has seen spirits since he was a baby. Today he told my daughter about something that happened at a house close by and gave detail. Involving the death of a girl. Very strange. Any comments or ideas on this kim? Thanks and love your show

  7. Kim,this is Tammy I lost my oldest 2 kids father Sept 7th of last year I was with him Sence I was 14 im43 now and ‘re married now but Tim has always been my best friend, I’m the one who found him and it feels like I lost my best, no I kno I lost my best friend I think of him every day I just can’t get that vision of him laying there on the coutch I miss him so much I just wish I could talk to him one more time could u please help me u van contact me at 931-548-9831,I live in Columbia tn 38401 near Nashville tn please help me I beg I please I just want to see that he’s ok, thank you, Tammy Hardin

  8. Hello my name is Sonya(36yrs old) with two kids who are 16&13 years old. On January 12,2010 me & my kids lives was went from happy & normal to just trying to live day by day. My husband which is my kids dad passed away from gunshot to the back of his head. It happens so close to where we live that I heard the shot. I went to go check because he was outside at the time. I found my husband on street with gunshot to back of his head. He barely breathing & took his last breath in my arms. Our lives has not been the same & I no I will never have the closure I need to continue living life for my kids. If u can please take the time to somehow contact me by phone, email, text I would very much take in & appreciate on helping me & my kids to live again. Thank U (559)259-7670. Fresno ca.

  9. I lost the love off my life to murder, no one knows who did this to him and why but he has come to me in dreams but every time he tries to tell me the story something cuts my dream short. I just wanna know what he is trying to tell me in these dreams.

  10. Hello Kim, My name is Rita. I believe you may be able to help my family. Since our grandmother Blanche passed away a few years ago our family has fallen apart. She was the glue that held all of us together. Since her passing all of my sisters including myself no longer get along. Not for lack of trying to contact my sisters. Grandma always made sure we spent holidays together and we all kept in touch. I know there are a lot of deeper issues with my sisters and myself and I am hoping with your help we could all be a family again. I love my sisters and pray for us to be a family again. I do know that grandma does come to visit me along with grandpa who is also passed. When I was very sick and in a nursing home for help I know my grandfather came to visit me there. I had a picture of my two boys hanging on my wall and when I came back to my room the picture was on my bedside table with two wheat pennies on the picture. I know for a fact none of the nurses knew grandpa collected wheat pennies. I am hoping with your help our family can have healing and become a loving family once again. My cell phone number is (651)955-9500

  11. I have 8 years here in America. I have my own family but I miss my parents a lot they live at Europe . I feel so alone but I got a filing that when I am so depressed my grandfather that is departure is here with me.I hope is true .

  12. MY FAMILY HAS HAD A LOT OF LOSS THROUGH THE YEARS. I’M 55 YEARS OLD. I LOST MY FATHER IN 1994. HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE DRIVING KIDS ON A SCHOOL BUS. IT WAS ON THE NEWS BECAUSE ONE OF THE KIDS TRIED TO GIVE MY FATHER C.P.R. MY SISTER WAS 4 YEARS OLDER THAN ME. SHE GOT BREAST CANCER IN 2000. SHE BEAT CANCER FOR 7 YEARS. SHE THAN WENT ON VACATION AND DIED AT THE SLOT MACHINES. A YEAR LATER ON FATHERS DAY , HER SON DIED, MY NEPHEW. HER HUSBAND LOST HIS WHOLE FAMILY IN A MATTER OF 2 YEARS. A YEAR LATER I GOT BREAST CANCER AND THAN MY 80 YEAR OLD MOTHER GOT BREAST CANCER. SO FAR, WE ARE CANCER FREE. I MISS MY SISTER SO MUCH. WE WERE SUPPOSE TO TAKE CARE OF MY MOTHER WHEN SHE GOT OLDER. I WAS WONDERING IF YOU DO PRIVATE READINGS. WE DON’ HAVE A LOT OF MONEY. I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE OR IF YOU DO CROWDS. PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I HAVE A FEELING I’M NOT GOING TO LIVE THAT LONG. I WOULD LOVE TO TALK WITH MY SISTER, FATHER ONE MORE TIME. MY MOTHER WANTS TO COME AND MY NIECE, MY SISTERS DAUGHTER FROM ANOTHER MARRIAGE. I LEFT MY E-MAIL. THANK YOU. LISA DELOUISE KOUTSOUMBARIS.

  13. Kim, i have a son who is currently incarcerated…he’s been there a lil over 11yrs.he’s only 32..but recently he thinks he lost or is losing his mind,and he said that my mom who is deceased,went to him in his cell and hurt him pshically.truthfully i know my mom would never hurt him.so i think it may be something more evil.can you please give me some advice..or tell me what i can do to help him from here..or to protect him from negative energy. thank you you can call me or email me back..(909)889-5652
    sylvia

  14. Hi, I ‘ve had paranormal experiences all my life. My kids & one of my grandsons, my mom, my great grandmother were/and are that way. I am from Germany ( here since I was 5 1/2). My grandson says he feels something bad inside him, he gets into all kinds of trouble,feels like he doesn’t belong here etc. I just wonder if it’s a spirit thing. Could you please help me to find out. Thank you.

  15. Hi Kim can you help me I am experiencing strange things like writing on the wall, faces in the floor dont understand please help me Kim.

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