Bryan Greene

Then Sylvia Brown confirmed their worst fears.

Is he still with us?

Thankfully, Sean Hornbeck was found last week alive and well.

His alleged abductor, Michael Devlin, is not Hispanic, and he didn't have dreadlocks at the time of the abduction.

But she was terribly wrong about the most important detail of all.

Hearing that was one of the hardest things we ever had to hear.

She was the queen of daytime psychic drama.

She would tell distraught parents whether or not their missing child was alive or dead.

This reaches beyond prognostication, gentle and broad questions to make you believe that someone's talking to your loved one who has passed away.

And this is certainly not calling a psychic friend's hotline to figure out whether or not that blonde bartender at your local pub is ever going to give you a hand shandy in the back of your Honda Accord.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

this is reaching out into reality and ripping the literal hearts out of terrified traumatized human beings just imagine for a minute that you have children even if you don't and the worst imaginable thing happens they go missing you have no idea where they are you have no conclusion you toss you turn you bang your head against every wall but then you flip on montel williams

See Sylvia Brown with her stringy blonde hair and Jabba the Hutt posture, and she's telling other parents of missing children with confidence where their missing child is, what happened to their missing child, and whether or not their missing child would be found alive or dead.

But here's the problem.

While Montel Williams played tiddlywinks with Sylvia Brown, riding those ratings all the way to being a millionaire, the damage was being done because she was usually 100% incorrect.

By the way, we've asked Montel Williams to respond to the controversy about the reading Sylvia Brown did on his TV show.

He had no comment.

He also took a pass on appearing on this program.

Famously, she told the mother of Amanda Berry, a kidnapped teenager, that her daughter was dead.

And surprise, surprise, and the great kind of surprise, 10 years later, Amanda Berry was found alive.