Terri Colombino (Katie) shares her personal psychic experience
Long before moving to New York and landing the role of Katie on AS THE WORLD TURNS, struggling actress Terri Colombino found herself attending a performance by noted psychic James Van Praagh. "I didn't even mean to," she confesses. "I went with friends. I didn't even know what it was at the time."
Seeing Things
Colombino was skeptical going in, but as Van Praagh began "reading" the audience, he had a vision of a stomach with a scar or hole above the bellybutton. "I was like, 'That's me! That's me!'" Colombino recalls. "I used to have my belly-button pierced, and at the time, there was a hole there, almost as big as my belly-button. And he proceeded to say all these things... "
One of the psychic's predictions was that the young actress would be moving far away for a job that would change her life, and that she would be living on the water. "And two months later," she reveals, "when I got a job on BREAKER HIGH, I moved to Vancouver, which is not overseas, but still very far. And I was sitting on my balcony one day, and I was living on the water!"
Colombino was stunned to find many of Van Praagh's predictions coming true in one way or another. "I moved, I got a big job, everything," she says, shaking her head in amazement. "The guy I was with at the time, he said, 'You're going to break up.' And we did."
What's In A Name?
But there was one special revelation that startled the actress beyond all others. When Van Praagh asked if the name Katherine meant anything to her, Colombino replied that it was her mother's name. But the medium insisted that it was a grandmother he was sensing, and that the person in question was deceased.
"I was like, 'It can't be, because they're both alive,'" Colombino relates. "And I went home to tell my mom about the experience, and she's like, 'Your great-grandmother's name is Katherine. I didn't even know! It was so crazy! So I do believe in it." – Chris Eades
Terri Colombino
