Many years ago, a married man went to a psychic, and she told him I would marry him. I repeatedly told him I wasn't interested (he was part of a lift club for my daughter and his daughter), but he didn't believe me.

Then I moved from South Africa to the UK. Three months after I arrived, he emailed me to say he had closed his business, and he was now working in the UK three months on and three months off.

It occurred to me that he might have followed me there, but I kept telling myself he couldn't be that stupid, and I wasn't that great.

He ruined my 50th birthday party - totally destroyed it. I noticed he was talking to another 'psychic' friend of mine.

At the end of the evening, they climbed into me and totally destroyed me. They were there for two or three hours insisting that I sleep with a married man (him), and that my 'negative attitude' towards men must stop.

They had this conversation to me in front of my 13 year old daughter. i am autistic, and I have an auditory processing disorder, so I couldn't stop the conversation.

It cost me her friendship. I never spoke to her again. He continued. Then, one day, about a year later, I was seeing him off at the airport. I said something. I don't know what. He turned to me and said, "I've just realized I can never trust you."

The context told me that he was still interested in me. I was devastated. I was also furious. I will never forgive him.

That is what psychics can do, and that is what people who give advice can do.

I have had some terrible things said to me by religious people, by psychics, etc. I will never understand it.

The irony of this is that I have some abilities - genuine ones ...