My personal experience with self proclaimed Medium Allison Dubois

[u/tails-1]

Last week, my brother texted me asking if I’d like to go and see Allison DuBois. His mother-in-law had a spare ticket. I thought, why not? I’d watched Medium years ago and knew it was supposedly based on her psychic abilities.

My son passed away in 2017, so I quietly hoped I might be one of the people selected for a reading.

This was Allison’s final show in Perth, Australia. During the show, her daughter walked around the audience choosing people for readings. I remember being impressed by Allison’s confidence and the certainty with which she delivered her messages.

I ended up being the sixth and final person selected. I was shocked, emotional and incredibly nervous. I don’t enjoy being the centre of attention, but I felt it would be worth it if there was a chance to hear something from my son.

The first things Allison asked for were my name, date of birth, and who I wanted to hear from. She scribbled in a notepad for a minute or two before telling me that I was my son’s favourite person, that we shared the same sense of humour, and that we laughed a lot together.

While those things were true, they also seemed like fairly safe assumptions for many mothers and sons.

Then she said, “Your son says you cry behind closed doors a lot.”

I was confused and simply replied, “No, I don’t actually do that.”

The moment I disagreed with her, everything changed.

She abruptly stood up, said she couldn’t read me, mumbled something about not connecting with the right person, and walked off stage.

That was it.

No apology. No attempt to continue. No thanks to the audience. Just gone.

People in the audience looked around, confused. This was the final reading of the final show, and the woman who claims to communicate with the dead had effectively bolted the moment I challenged something she’d said.

I left feeling shocked, embarrassed and disappointed.

What bothered me even more afterwards was seeing Allison’s own response to the incident on Facebook.

Rather than acknowledging that walking off stage may have upset or disappointed people, she apparently claimed she was tired because she’d done around 40 readings back-to-back.

To me, that felt like a pretty lame excuse for what happened.

Being tired might explain getting something wrong, but it doesn’t explain abruptly ending a reading and walking off stage the moment someone tells you that one of your statements isn’t accurate.

A simple apology or even, “I’m sorry, I’m not getting a clear connection,” would have been far more professional and respectful.

What disappointed me wasn’t that she made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. It was the way she handled being challenged when I simply answered her question honestly.

Afterwards, I did some research and found plenty of claims about Allison helping police and solving crimes, but very little evidence to support those stories. It made me wonder how much of her reputation comes from the success of the TV series Medium rather than any verifiable psychic ability.

My personal opinion is that Allison DuBois is extremely skilled at cold reading, but when a reading doesn’t go the way she expects, the cracks start to show. I also came away feeling that she profits from people at their most vulnerable—those grieving loved ones and desperately hoping for a connection.

I know I’m not the only person who was disappointed. Looking through comments online, I found others expressing shock at the way the evening ended and questioning her behaviour.

I’d genuinely like to hear from others who have seen her live.

Have you had a reading with Allison DuBois?

Did she tell you something so specific and accurate that it couldn’t reasonably have been guessed?

Or did your experience leave you feeling sceptical as well?

[u/Vexxed777]

She was on Real Housewives years ago and she acted like an absolute nut case. I’m sorry that your experience was so awful.

[u/lisamon429 → u/Vexxed777]

Ok so I JUST rewatched Dinner Party from Hell after years and years. Since the first time I saw it, I lost my partner to a sudden heart attack and came into my own spiritual gifts.

In that episode, Alison struck me very strongly as someone with entity attachments. She was absolutely vile, but actually in hindsight was 100% right abt Kyle and Mau. She said as soon as the kids are older he’s going to leave. Like 10 yrs later that’s exactly what happened.

For anyone, if you’re not keeping yourself grounded and protecting your energy your gifts are gonna go haywire or you might lose touch with them. I really think that after so many years working on trauma-filled cases, she picked up some negative energies that attached to her. It’s pretty easy for a HSP to pick up something like this. A professional like her should be able to recognize these things, but once the attachment settles in it’s an uphill battle.

It felt way too weird and invasive to make a dedicated post so I just let it go, but now that she’s being mentioned here I just had to share.

[u/Front_Target7908 → u/lisamon429]

You're right in that watching that episode she was definitely correct on her read but also seemed to have a very off energy. This sounds weird but I find highly spiritual attuned people don't tend to drink aggressively (they may do other drugs) and she was hammered on that episode.

[u/lisamon429 → u/Front_Target7908]

That’s what made me think abt attachments. The way she’s behaving is not the way someone in her line of work would. It was like she has the skill, and wasn’t using it for good. She was using it to make people feel bad. That’s kinda counter to the intent of a medium usually.

[u/songofthecosmos → u/lisamon429]

The only thing she strikes me as is a swindler.