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Luann de Lesseps‘ daughter, 31-year-old Victoria de Lesseps, opened up about her career as a psychic medium and healer during an interview last week, sharing that she once rid the Real Housewives of New York City alum’s house of a ghost.
As she also reflected on an “extreme” meeting she had with a healer that left her “very, very scared and freaked out,” Victoria explained what led her to the trade as she recalled past interactions with the ghost living at her mother’s vacation home and confirmed she helped him move on from the residence.
“Even [as] a young kid, I used to see some ghosts. I used to see some weird dark energy when I was probably 6, 7 [years old]. Again in my teens,” Victoria, who Luann shares with ex-husband Count Alexandre de Lesseps, 76, revealed during a January 16 interview with Page Six.
According to Victoria, her father’s late mother was a “white witch” who practiced radiesthesia. However, her paranormal experiences didn’t continue throughout her childhood. Instead, they “faded away” until about three or four years ago, when a “series of events,” including a split, “led to an upswing” that fueled her past trauma.
At that time, Victoria, who graduated from Pratt Institute, opened up to a gallery owner who was displaying some of her artwork.
“I was kind of talking really openly, and she was like, ‘You gotta go see my healer, Lisa,’” she revealed.
So Victoria did.
“I could see everything going on. She was ripping stuff out of me that wasn’t mine. A lot of purging was going on. And I saw this very tall — now I know, spirit guide — standing next to me: big, kind of native, all in shadow with a big jaguar,” she recalled. “[I was] very, very scared and freaked out.”
While the session frightened Victoria, Lisa noticed something unique about her and told her she should pursue a career in the field.
“I always say I kicked and screamed my whole way through this process. Although I’m super grateful and absolutely love it, I didn’t see it coming,” she admitted.
During one of her training sessions at Luann’s house in the Hamptons, Victoria and another trainee came face-to-face with a ghost.
“The door didn’t ‘open,’ but it ethereally opened, and [the ghost] popped through. And [my classmate] was like, ‘Hey, there’s a ghost in your house! Like, he just opened the door.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, he is here,’” she shared.
“My mom’s actually engaged with it before,” she continued. “She was in her room, and she pushed a book, and the book pushed back, and she pushed it back in.”
Although the ghost “used to not be so nice” to her, Victoria was ultimately able to have a breakthrough with it.
“I used to walk up the stairs at night and look down and be like, ‘Ah! Like, I see something there,’” she explained. “I came home one day — and I wasn’t living here [anymore] — and I came in at night, and I just heard a voice being like, ‘You don’t live here anymore!’ And I was like, ‘Ah! I’ll come back in the morning!’”
Once she gained understanding from the ghost, he “warmed up” to her.
“As I was in the house more, I switched rooms. … It was a guest room, so no one was really in there. And I sensed there was something with [his] wife. Like, he used to live here. So he was kind of just chilling in the house,” she said, noting that they “spoke casually.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, do you want to leave? You ready to go?’ And then I think he just [left] because he’s not here anymore,” she reasoned.
After the ghost left Luann’s home, Victoria helped other ghosts “move on.”
“Some ghosts get stuck when they have a traumatic death, like a murder, and then they can’t really move on because sometimes they need someone to just — they need a witness. They need to share their story,” she explained.
In addition to psychic readings and healing sessions, Victoria also offers past-life readings and tarot card readings, and she is writing a fantasy trilogy series based on “shamanic characters,” “oracles,” and “healers” in an “alternate universe.”
Luann is also mom to Noel de Lesseps, 29.