By Emma Lowe @Emma_features
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But now, with the help of psychic Ryan Gooding, cheating partners are finally being exposed – thanks to messages from the dead.
The 25-year-old medium draws on the wisdom of the spirits to expose love rats, and has no qualms about pointing the finger of infidelity.
Psychic from the age of four, feisty Ryan now uses his connection with the supernatural to determine the past, present and the future of all his clients.
Ryan predicts health issues, wealth gain and loss, but mostly he is sought out for relationship advice.
“No one can hide from the dead,” said Ryan. “If your partner is doing something wrong the spirit world will know and they will tell me.
“I find the most common thing people come to me to talk to me about relationships.
“They want to know if their partners are in trouble, if they love them any more and most commonly if they are playing away.”
Whether he is performing a one-on-one reading or speaking in a group seminar, Ryan will receive a stream of messages from the dead.
These messages from the spirit world can take the form of things heard, seen and even tasted.
Ryan predicts health issues, wealth gain and loss, but mostly he is sought out for relationship advice.
“No one can hide from the dead,” said Ryan. “If your partner is doing something wrong the spirit world will know and they will tell me.
“I find the most common thing people come to me to talk to me about relationships.
“They want to know if their partners are in trouble, if they love them any more and most commonly if they are playing away.”
Whether he is performing a one-on-one reading or speaking in a group seminar, Ryan will receive a stream of messages from the dead.
These messages from the spirit world can take the form of things heard, seen and even tasted.
When the messages are confused or the reading lacks clarity, Ryan will then seek the advice of his spirit guide, Kathy, to explain and ensure accuracy.
Ryan, from Flexistowe, Essex, claims he can become so overcome with signs from the after-life that he will blurt out the information – catching adulterers off guard.
“I had one women come and she felt her husband was being distant,” said Ryan.
“The messages were very strong from the spirit world and I just blurted out, ‘He’s cheating on you’.
“She didn’t want to believe it, but I told her, ‘Go home and your husband will be sleeping on the sofa. You need to take his phone off the counter top and scroll down to the third text message’.
“I explained that text would give her the evidence she needed. She went away and called me later to thank me for exposing the truth.”
Ryan – who lives with husband Darren Scott, 37 –has also exposed cheaters in front of a room full of people at his auditorium seminars.
“I have been known to say something like, the person on row four with the blonde hair has someone she or he plans a new life with, she or he is having an affair.
“I once caught a man out, I was quite abrupt in front of the whole room, he was very embarrassed and the couple left. I found out later it was true.
“When I feel something or see something or I’m told something I do just have to say it out loud.
“Some people don’t believe me but they will look for the evidence and it always exposes the affair.”
But it isn’t just the hearts of strangers Ryan has broken.
Five years ago he exposed his own partner’s elicit affair with the help of his spirit guide Kathy.
He added: “It was at the beginning of our relationship and I was being sent warnings that not everything was okay.
“I didn’t want to believe it. That’s one of the worst things about being a medium you don’t always want the messages.
“Kathy helped me make sense of it all and I was able to find the two of them together exactly where she said they would be.
“I suppose he should have known he would definitely get caught out.”
Ryan had his first contact with the spirit world when he was just four-years-old when he passed on a message from his late great-grandmother to his mum, Anita, now 60.
Throughout his childhood his gifts both amused and terrified his teachers and peers.
And he was even pulled into the headmaster’s office and told to stop with his ‘Harry Potter tricks’ after reducing a teacher to tears with a message from her dead father.
Growing up, Ryan helped his father Richard, now 57, tend to the garden of family friend Katheen Paige who later died from cancer in 2004, when Ryan was 11.
After she passed, Ryan claims he was visited by her three days later and was told who she would be his guide through the spirit world.
Now Ryan works full time touring the country as a medium, charging between £10 and £300 for his services.
He is also a medium to the stars and has given readings to numerous celebrities including TOWIE’s Amy Childs, the boys from Union J and Katie Price’s ex-husband, Alex Reid.
Ryan added “People say I shouldn’t charge for my gift, well all I can say to that is Beyoncé is talented, she was given the gift of a good voice and she charges for that.”