- My next guest is a three time
New York Times bestselling author.
Her new book is called, this is hilarious,
"Good Mourning," get it?
And it's out now.
Let's say hi to "Long Island Medium,"
Theresa Caputo, everybody.
(audience applauds and cheers)
- Hey.
- [Kelly] Hello! Hey girl, hey.
- How are you?
- I'm good.
This is the best title.
Like, this is hilarious.
This is the best title. I loved it.
- It is good.
- Yeah. So how are you doing?
I haven't seen you since the summer.
- I know. It seems like yesterday, though.
- I know. I know.
Well, meet Dennis Quaid.
Dennis Quaid is here.
- Hi, Theresa.
- It's nice to meet you.
- Like, Dennis, though,
I didn't know that you are also a musician.
I somehow missed that in our recent interviews.
- I was. I was a guitar player in a folk group.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
I was going to -
- [Dennis] Really?
- [Kelly] That's amazing. I didn't know.
Did you grow up, like, in a musical family?
- No. My brother played the drums, but no.
I just loved the guitar.
Yeah, I loved the guitar.
My mom sent me for guitar lessons
and I used to play every Sunday in our church.
- Oh, that's what,
I think we all grew up in church,
somewhere singing or playing.
That's always the story, right?
- Did you do a lot of Peter, Paul and Mary?
- Well, I think they did a lot of pulling out
my amp out of my guitar, playing out of the amp.
- They were like -
- They used to turn off the mic when I would sing.
- That's awesome.
That's kindness, if it wasn't working out.
So are you able to do readings?
I know everybody's trying to figure out
a new way to do their jobs,
you know, whatever that is, in this kind of environment.
Are you able to still do readings?
- I am.
That's the great thing.
So, before "Long Island Medium,"
I used to do phone readings.
So, I say now Zoom is the new phone reading,
and it's amazing because I'm able to read people
all over the world.
And that also got me the opportunity to start a podcast.
So, now everyone can hear all these readings
all over the world.
So, we've done Australia, Hong Kong, Canada.
It's amazing.
- Wow. Keeping busy, aren't you?
Well, what's the craziest place you've ever
done a reading in person?
- I don't know.
Can I say it on TV?
- I can't wait.
I'm actually, if you don't, I'm going to be mad.
- It was at the gynecologist's office.
- Wait, were you in the stirrups?
- I was out, I was out.
Thank God, I was out.
- Well, oh my God.
How did that happen?
- So what happened was, is I went in for an appointment
and I, and actually my gynecologist
asked me to come in to sage her space.
You know, people always, you know, ask me, what do I do?
How do I do?
So I went into sage the office,
and then when I came out of my appointment, I was saging.
And then I ended up reading a woman
who unfortunately lost her husband.
- Oh no, does that...
That is such a, I mean, I know you don't see it that way,
but it seems to me like such a burden.
You run into people, and there's so much loss.
- I never look at it as a burden.
I consider what I do such an honor and a privilege.
To be able to give someone that healing,
and more importantly, that peace
after the loss of their loved one is just, it's amazing.
And I wouldn't trade what I do for anything in the world.
- Do they, do people come up to you everywhere
and just want you to read them?
- Sometimes.
Some people just come up to me, you know,
and just, like, accuse me of trying
to impersonate myself, but -
- Wait, what?
(muffled speech)
Oh, they don't think you're really you?
- Oh, yeah.
I had a woman literally come up to me in Target
and accuse me of trying to be the worst impersonator
of Theresa Caputo and then told me
that I wasn't as pretty as she was.
- Oh my gosh.
Has that ever happened to you,
like, people don't recognize you or they think that -
- Yeah, I'm Harrison Ford's little brother.
- Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
No, what happens to me is, literally people,
I mean, I feel so bad for them.
Cause I'm like, look, I'm not even offended at this point.
It happens so much.
But like, they'll literally be like,
somebody will say, "Oh my God, you're Kelly Clarkson."
And somebody will go,
"Oh no, she's way prettier and thinner."
I'm like, I mean, what do I do?
I'm like, yeah. She is stupid.
- I just go ahead and sign the autograph Harrison Ford.
Why bust their bubble?
- I know, I don't even say anything until I leave.
I look at friends I'm with,
and I'm like don't tell them.
They're going to feel horrible.
But anyway, so you have a new book.
Like I said, it's the greatest title.
So, what's it about?
- So it's about everyday losses
with help from the other side.
So, what I learned from channeling spirit
is that unfortunately, we incur everyday losses.
It's basically what once was, and we grieve that.
And sometimes then, when we lose a loved one,
because we haven't grieved all these other past issues,
that's why sometimes losing a loved one
is far more harder to get over.
So, the thing that I love about "Good Mourning"
is that it teaches us how to recognize what has happened
and then take what we've learned from it
and release all the negative emotions
that came along with that loss.
And then I give you a mantra to say to yourself
every day to help you move on.
- Thank you for being so positive.
I think everybody needs that right now.
And just any way to kind of keep us smiling, keep us going.
That's, I mean, we need it more now than ever.
- Yeah, I do think that what is good
is coming out of this is that
there is a spiritual awakening
going on all over the world, actually.
And this is what, unfortunately,
this is what a spiritual awakening feels like.
- Yeah.
- [Dennis] It's tough at times.
- Destruction kind of has to happen
in order for you to become, you know,
what you're going to become.
You know, you have to kind of tear down to build
back up and leave that person.
- [Dennis] To improve.
- Yes, to improve.
- Yeah.
- So, anyway, I love your new book.
I think, I mean, way to go on the title,
and way to go on the timing.
That was perfect.
So, Theresa's new book, "Good Mourning" is out now.
And the new season of "Long Island Medium"
returns this fall on TLC.