Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry Brought Me to Tears in a Spot-On Reading: Here's What Unfolded (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

I was very excited to meet medium Tyler Henry.

For years I’ve watched him on television shows like E!’sHollywood Mediumand his Netflix seriesLife After Death. I’ve seen him have incredibly moving moments with those who have lost loved ones and the comfort he’s provided them in their time of grief. Whether or not you believe in his ability is a personal choice. I, myself, trust that I don’t have all the answers, and I like to keep an open mind to what might be possible.

I’m especially drawn to Henry’s energy – soft spoken and quick to smile with a boyish charm even at age 28 – and he comes across even more authentically during our Zoom call. He was only 10 years old when he had what he’s now deemed a premonition of his grandmother’s death. He woke up, told his mom and within minutes his dad called with the news that his grandmother had indeed died. “For a big portion of my life from then on, I had these things kind of pop in randomly,” he tells me. “I had really no rhyme or reason or control over them.”

Tyler Henry performs on the OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino Resort on Feb. 3, 2024 in Niagara Falls, Ontario.Jeremychanphotography/Getty

Jeremychanphotography/Getty

Over the years, he honed his skill and has since done thousands of readings including with celebrities such as Jim Parsons, Sofia Vergara and Allison Janney. To be clear, he insists, “I don’t see dead people walking around generally.” More so, he describes what he sees during a reading as almost like a memory that isn’t his. “I had to, in essence, kind of figure out what was mine and what wasn’t,” he explains. “What is my identity versus the identity of other people?”

He also learned to become hyper-aware of new thoughts and images in his mind and any changes in sensation in his body. Basically, he says, “I just go with the flow and relay all of what pops into my mind. And very often we find that those things end up having great significance to the person that I’m reading.”

Now Henry, who has two best-selling books and a sold-out national tour, has taken on televised live readings with his Netflix series,Live from the Other Side, which airs Tuesdays. He invites celebrity guests to sit down with him during a live broadcast and tries to help them find hope and closure with lost loved ones as well.

Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

For any of his readings, Henry is never told who he’ll be meeting with ahead of time and considers it crucial to help control any biases. I know this going into it, which makes what was about to unfold all the more extraordinary.

We had introduced ourselves at the start of our Zoom with only our first names, and as my reading begins, he starts scribbling. Early on, he realized that the amorphous movement of pen on paper helps him better access his ability, to intentionally allow his guard down to better become “a conduit for information,” he says. “I’m kind of in the middle between two things. And as a messenger, my goal is to kind of relay specific detailed information that’s going to leave someone better than I find them.”

I am mindful not to reveal anything as we go and try to answer any questions with a simple yes or no unless he asks me for affirmation.

He immediately tells me he has a number of people coming through that all seem to be on the older side, “which is always reassuring,” so those over the age of 75. “I want to go and highlight, this is the name of my grandfather, Joseph. Do you have any Joes in the family?”

I nod. My uncle, Joe Warren Jordan, on my father’s side, died in 2021. He says he expects this Joe is no longer living and this is “an acknowledgement of who we are, who we’re with.”

He next highlights what he calls “this maternal figure that comes in like a force of nature, and I feel like I want to just hug her.” He laughs and crosses him arms on his chest. “I feel like I’m wanting to latch onto you like a koala bear. And there’s a sweetness that comes in with this lady. She lived a pretty full life, but also like, I wish she would’ve had more time.”

I nod again. I’m hoping this might be my grandmother, Ruth, with whom I was extremely close. She died in 2001 at the age of 87 after having an adverse drug reaction.

“There is an acknowledgement around Ruth or what I would view as a Babe Ruth thing. Does that mean anything? It looks like it.”

“I know. It’s so strange when that happens,” he says sincerely.

Tyler Henry.Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty

Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty

He then asks me, “Do you know of any W names that got passed down in the family that would be male?” I say yes. Most of the males on my dad’s side of the family have Warren or Wyatt in their names.

“Check and see if there are any situations where any older family members gifted a coin collection to a grandchild,” he says. I start to laugh. My dad collected coins from various states over the years and has been gifting them to all his grandkids at Christmas.

“And then I have to bring up, I assume you have a daughter because I feel like I need to refer to her. They’re having me bring up that in about three years there’s going to be a bit of a shift for her and it’s all good.”

My daughter, Hadley, will be graduating from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in three years. “I also have to highlight her going back and forth like in a different state and then coming back.” I let him know that makes sense. We just bought her a used car so she could safely drive to and from school as needed.

Tyler Henry (left) with his partner of almost 10 years Clint Godwin.Scott Kirkland/Shutterstock

Scott Kirkland/Shutterstock

“Do you know any RO names that are living right now?” he asks. I tell him there are actually two, my dad, Rod, and my brother, Roth. He then relays something for my dad and his wife to be aware of when it comes to their health. I promise I’ll pass along the information.

I ask Henry how he handles it when people make requests to try and communicate with specific loved ones who are no longer living. He says it can actually help sometimes and bring a reading into even more focus. I admit I’m selfishly wondering because I have a friend my age that died. With an unspoken understanding, he begins scribbling again.

He only wants to know the first initial of their name. I tell him M. “Okay I have to go more to female in the way this comes across. So then I am for some reason going from 2015 to now,” he says. “Do you know if the passing happened since 2015?” I can’t recall the exact year but know that sounds about right for when I’d lost one of my best friends, Mary. (After the reading, I looked up her obituary and confirmed she died in 2015.)

“There is acknowledgement of people that would be underneath her so usually for me it refers to children, nieces, nephews, that kind of thing,” he adds. “There is an emphasis on two and an emphasis on any girls in the family, so do we know about that?” Mary had two kids, a daughter and a son.

He then tells me to keep watch for any rainbow or double rainbow that will have a strong connection to my friend. “Remember that I’m saying this, this is something that’s going to end up being really significant.”

We both can sense the reading is coming to an end, and my immediate emotion is overwhelming gratitude. I tell him I hope those who read this story will embrace what he can offer the world. For me, it has brought a comfort and an even stronger trust that there is more out there than this life we are living.

“There’s so many beliefs around this and lack of beliefs," he says. “And so I just love to be able to break into that and have some conversations and perhaps kind of get people’s gears turning about how to find more meaning in their loss.”

For Henry, being able to share his gift “is so humbling. Every validation, every reading,” he says. “I hope that these create conversations in the long term where people can talk about life and death and mortality and meaning and how we can live our lives to the fullest right now, regardless of what people believe about mediums.”

His mission to help others and provide any insight on life after death “has always just felt like my calling,” he adds. “Life through a series of meaningful coincidences seemed to in many ways put me on this path. And I think many of us, whether we know it or not, can find those moments of destiny. In my own life, this very much just felt like what I was destined to do.”

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Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henryairs live on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on Netflix.

source: people.com