Former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff opens up about her decades-long friendship with psychic medium John Edward in an exclusive first-person piece.

“I’m connecting with your mother,” the psychic told the woman on the phone, "and she’s telling me to mention the chocolate.”

It was early 2003, and I was on a three-way conference call for a book I was co-writing — After Life: Answers from the Other Side — with psychic John Edward , whose Syfy show, Crossing Over with John Edward , was the first-of-its-kind back then.

After spending an intense three months following the famous medium around the tri-state area and across the Australian outback, watching him give readings in packed-to-the-rafters mega-arenas and private one-on-one sessions in hotel rooms, we were doing one last “rea

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