John Edward (born October 19, 1969) rose to fame in the early 2000s as the host of Crossing Over with John Edward and has remained a fixture of talk shows, podcasts, and web series for over two decades. Below are dated summaries of his interview appearances: interviews found on YouTube, his many appearances with Larry King, and other television, podcast, and press interviews.
URL: https://youtu.be/ezYHQfBif6Y
Edward's third appearance on Australian host Sarah Grynberg's podcast, published to her YouTube channel in July 2026 (episode released July 27, 2026; the podcast feed titles it "John Edward: Everything You Think You Know About Mediums Is Wrong"). The wide-ranging conversation covers the difference between being a psychic and a medium, how he says he receives messages from loved ones who have passed, the double-blind studies he took part in with researchers from Harvard, Yale, and the University of Arizona, and why he believes mediumship should rest on evidence and integrity rather than blind faith. Grief, healing, and how to support someone navigating loss round out the episode, which also features a reading for Grynberg's friend Ange.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiV8OWNRd5w
Podcast episode released January 28, 2026; YouTube video published February 11, 2026. Edward tells Jay Shetty the story of how he went from skeptic to medium — beginning at age 15 with a reading by psychic Lydia Clara that he set out to debunk — and discusses the survival of consciousness, grief as "the other side of love," skepticism versus cynicism, the clairvoyant/clairaudient/clairsentient ways he claims to receive information, and red flags that can indicate a fake psychic. He also describes what changed for him when his uncle died in 1987 and his mother was later diagnosed with cancer.
URL: https://youtu.be/trZTSfo4x5A
Episode released March 30, 2026 (clips posted to the DEAD Talks YouTube channel in April 2026). A raw, honest conversation about grief, mediumship, and what it really means to stay connected to those who have passed. Edward explains why he believes most people don't need a reading to feel connected to their loved ones, discusses working with skeptics and law enforcement, how to spot fake mediums, and shares the story of a reading built around repeated "golf" symbolism that resolved with the word "four." He also recounts his unsettling experiences leading up to September 11, 2001 — a feeling he could not explain, a moment inside the World Trade Center, and what happened the night before he was to appear on Larry King Live.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbEKBrOqDc
Broadcast on ITV's This Morning on May 27, 2026; posted to YouTube June 11, 2026. Interviewed live on the sofa ahead of his UK tour, Edward retells his skeptic-to-medium origin story, discusses his work with former FBI agent Robert Hilland (the subject of Edward's book Chasing Evil), and describes the period from June 2001 to September 11 as a "very dark period" — including urging his wife to move a ballroom-dance competition out of the World Trade Center because of the "dark evil" energy he felt there.
URL: https://www.pbs.org/video/psychic-medium-john-edward-helps-bring-closure-loved-ones-0x/
PBS episode 2128, aired April 26, 2018 (available on YouTube and PBS video). Steve Adubato talks with Edward about when he realized he had the ability to connect people with loved ones who have "crossed over" and how that talent carried him to where he is today.
Edward appeared on Larry King Live many times beginning in 1998 (his segment promoting One Last Time was so popular the show's switchboard was overwhelmed with calls), and later on Larry King Now. The dated appearances below are the most documented.
Edward's first appearance on Larry King Live, promoting his just-published autobiography One Last Time — the segment that overloaded the show's switchboard and made him a national name. The archived transcript preserves the hour of phone readings, including the string of weak name guesses ("a J- or G-sounding name," "Linda or Lindy or Leslie," "Maggie or Margie") that skeptic Joe Nickell later analyzed: of 125 statements Edward made on the show, Nickell found him "incorrect about as often as he was right," with his hits mostly weak ones.
URL: https://nypost.com/2001/03/08/in-deadlyearnest-time-mag-accuses-up-and-comer-edward-of-faking-it/
The night TIME magazine published Leon Jaroff's critical article "Talking to the Dead" (which called Edward's work "a sophisticated form of the game 20 Questions"), Edward appeared on Larry King Live alongside Jaroff, Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, skeptic Paul Kurtz, and others. In a heated exchange, Edward denied claims that he uses planted audience members, microphones, and deceptive editing, insisting the show is "edited for time, not for content."
URL: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2001-09-10/segment/00
The night before the September 11 attacks, Edward was the guest for the full hour, taking phone calls and readings. His appearance has since been discussed in later interviews (see the DEAD Talks episode above) in the context of the unsettling feelings he says he experienced in the months before 9/11. That night he discussed his book Crossing Over: The Stories Behind the Stories (No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list that week) and defended his work against cold-reading accusations.
URL: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2002-09-06/segment/00
Edward discussed the third year of Crossing Over, follow-ups with people who had received readings, and the Saturday Night Live parody of him, which he said he loved — noting, "You've made it when they do it."
URL: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2003-02-28/segment/00
A call-in hour in which Edward gave readings to callers and studio staff, and fielded Larry King's questions — including "What do dead people do all day?" Edward also discussed his Catholic upbringing and how he frames the afterlife in terms of "the survival of consciousness and love."
URL: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2003-10-02/segment/00
Promoting his book After Life: Answers From the Other Side (No. 4 on the New York Times bestseller list), for which King himself wrote the foreword. King read from the foreword, noting he is "a pure agnostic" but that Edward "often amazes me." Edward took phone calls from around the world, including callers from South Africa.
URL: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193873/
A "psychic hour" edition of Larry King Live featuring Edward alongside other psychics.
URL: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rm407
After CNN, King's web series Larry King Now (Ora TV) reunited him with Edward and fellow medium Char Margolis. Larry talks with the two about mediums, the afterlife, incorrect readings, and predictions for the future, while they connect with members of the studio audience.
Beyond YouTube and Larry King, Edward has given numerous television, podcast, and press interviews, several of which are documented in the related blurbs linked below. Dated summaries follow, in chronological order.
URL: https://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/31/john.edwards/index.html
An interview Q&A published as Crossing Over with John Edward became the Sci-Fi Channel's highest-rated series. Edward retells the Lydia Clara origin story, describes his process — "I started learning as much as I could about parapsychology" — and notes that the wait for a private reading could run a year. Date: October 31, 2000.
Dateline's hour on Edward with correspondent John Hockenberry was the first nationally televised look at the Edward phenomenon. In the segment, Edward appeared to reach a spirit named "Anthony" who turned out to be one of the cameramen — whom Edward had chatted with hours earlier on a different shoot. Hockenberry confronted Edward on the show ("So that's not some energy coming through, that's something you knew going in"), and the exchange is documented in Joe Nickell's Skeptical Inquirer investigation "John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved" (linked above). Date: aired November 17, 2000.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
A feature interview by Ylan Q. Miu as Crossing Over went prime time, noting Edward had been "busy on the talk show circuit — Larry King, the 'Today' show, 'Dateline'" ahead of a sold-out seminar at Baltimore's convention center. Date: June 30, 2001.
URL: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/gb/date/2006-10-27/segment/01
On Glenn Beck's CNN program, Edward answered phone calls with readings and discussed his then-current show John Edward Cross Country. Date: October 27, 2006.
URL: https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/a-call-from-beyond
On Oprah, Edward described acting as a "conduit, like a bridge," and compared the process to "a daydream": "I quiet my mind through meditation and prayer and then I pay attention to what I'm thinking, what I'm hearing and what I'm feeling." Date: February 15, 2007.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://www.foxnews.com/story/medium-john-edward-explains-ability
Edward talked with Sean Hannity about his spiritual-resource website Infinite Quest and explained why he refuses to defend his work to skeptics: "As soon as you have to defend something, then you're admitting that something needs defense." Date: June 16, 2009.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-11/psychic-john-edwards-clashes-with-abc-host-jon-faine/11417992
A 1-minute-35-second audio clip of a 2009 clash between Edward and ABC Melbourne host Jon Faine, reposted by ABC News Australia on October 11, 2019. Date: interview 2009; clip posted October 11, 2019.
Edward told Julia Hatmaker: "I always find the people who are so critical on the subject matter don't give any respect back. They try to define what you're doing when they don't even understand it. That just screams to me ignorance and ignorance leads to intolerance." Date: May 24, 2012.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
Edward responded to critics with his "just watch me" philosophy: "The critics don't bother me. I'm not more special than anyone else, except I have worked at what I possess for three decades. I believe that everyone has ESP-like powers." Date: 2014.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2015/05/psychic_john_edward.html
Edward discussed his approach to believers and skeptics: "I've never felt the need to convince or convert people. I don't think that's appropriate." On cold-reading accusations he said: "They're not really skeptics, they're really cynics. Either they think people are being researched ahead of time, or they're saying it's guess work… people who seek mediums out are stupid. And I don't think they're stupid." Date: May 2015.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://hpr1.com/index.php/feature/culture/from-one-skeptic-to-another
A Q&A in which Edward addressed the South Park parody episode at length, his dislike of "mean, intentional humor," and how the episode has since "brought me a whole new clientele of young people." Date: 2017.
See also: John Edward: South Park Reception
A HuffPost piece published alongside Edward's Party Foul Radio interview (Ep. 67). Edward described being under public scrutiny as "a badge of honor" and said of the South Park parody: "Maybe I didn't like being attacked, but there are other people they were protecting… I'll wear the bullseye on my ass. It's starting a dialogue." Date: May 25, 2017.
See also: John Edward: South Park Reception
Edward explained his refusal to attack skeptics personally: he focuses on the work itself, noting he "can't disrespect the work." Date: October 19, 2018.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://omny.fm/shows/no-filter/john-edward-interview
(Also on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/john-edward-is-the-psychic-medium-who-didnt-believe/id995159486?i=1000444977114)
Mia Freedman talks with Edward on Mamamia's No Filter about the psychic who started as a skeptic, his Long Island grandmother, and his then-upcoming Australian tour. Date: July 21, 2019.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://eu.freep.com/story/entertainment/2019/09/27/john-edward-psychic-medium-detroit/2435148001/
Ahead of his Detroit tour, Edward explained his respect for skeptics ("I was them") and his boundaries: "I don't have time for cynicism, personal attack(s). If somebody comes at me in a negative way, I usually block them immediately." Date: September 27, 2019.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://podme.com/fi/jakso/2157365/
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Edward shared his feelings about the coronavirus and walked listeners through a healing practice for releasing fear. Date: March 18, 2020.
URL: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-52fim-a1b0b71
Edward offered predictions on the future of the economy, Hollywood, the culture of 2021, and the next decade of real estate, and described connecting with those who lost their lives to COVID-19. Date: July 23, 2020.
URL: https://audioboom.com/posts/7759610-special-psychic-medium-john-edward
A special episode of the Broadway podcast with hosts Jenn & Jess, released December 28, 2020. Date: December 28, 2020.
Edward talked with Joss Stone about energy, the "clairs," and opening up to the idea of the unknown. Date: February 1, 2021.
URL: https://astrologyhub.com/astrology-life-after-death-more-w-psychic-medium-john-edward/
Edward and Amanda 'Pua' Walsh discussed how he uses astrology in his readings, the life experiences that drew him into the field, and why healthy skepticism is needed in all fields. Date: March 12, 2021.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9i3FgfagQ
(Also on iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-the-ed-mylett-show-29574014/episode/life-death-and-energy-w-john-81427575/)
Edward's long-form conversation with Ed Mylett about death, energy, and the afterlife. Date: April 20, 2021.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://www.mariamenounos.com/life-hacks/2023-predictions-from-psychic-medium-john-edward
Edward joined Maria Menounos to share his 2023 predictions, foreseeing a year of accountability for celebrities, healthcare workers, and politicians, and a shift toward philosophical introspection. Date: January 2023.
URL: https://www.today.com/life/astrology/john-edward-psychic-parenting-interview-rcna119573
Edward drew his now-familiar distinction between skepticism and cynicism: "Being skeptical means that you're looking for validation and fast evidence. Being cynical means that no matter what you experience, you've already made up your mind. So cynicism scares me. Skepticism, we need to embrace." The interview also covered his "energetic parenting" approach. Date: 2023.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://articles.listnr.com/entertainment/most-powerful-way-to-speak-to-your-lost-loved-ones/
Edward's first chat with Australian TV host Jessica Rowe (he returned in July 2024, October 2025, and July 2026 — see the entries below). Jess and John went deep on when he first discovered his psychic abilities, how he receives messages from those who've crossed over, and the most powerful way we can communicate with loved ones who've passed — including his advice to "write a letter to your person in spirit." Date: June 13, 2023.
URL: https://sarahgrynberg.substack.com/p/john-edward-live-reading-a72
Edward's first appearance on Sarah Grynberg's podcast (he has since appeared twice more; see the YouTube section and the July 1, 2024 entry below). He shared his own story before giving listener Andrea a live reading to connect with a loved one who had passed. Date: June 19, 2023.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://thenurseericarn.podbean.com/e/ep-14-psychic-medium-john-edward/
Edward discussed his 2023 predictions for healthcare workers (made on Maria Menounos's show at the start of 2023) and his own professional healthcare background. Date: October 10, 2023.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6CiPPtuYEI
Edward's first appearance on comedian Howie Mandel's podcast (co-hosted with his daughter Jackelyn Shultz), released as a Halloween special. Edward recounts his origin story and how he says his gift works, then performs an in-studio reading — with what the show frames as a real ghost interaction caught on camera. Date: October 31, 2023.
An earlier On Purpose appearance in which Edward described his ability as telepathic communication with deceased consciousness, breaking down clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience, and the team of spirits he calls "The Boys." Date: 2024.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://7news.com.au/video/sunrise/psychic-medium-john-edward-on-sunrise-bc-6354696141112
Edward appeared on the Australian breakfast show Sunrise ahead of his 2024 Australian tour. Date: June 9, 2024.
URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-14/self-proclaimed-psychic-medium-john-edward-on/103979276
On ABC News Breakfast, Edward discussed his readings, his critics, and said there was one person he "certainly wouldn't talk to, alive or dead." Date: June 14, 2024.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://castro.fm/episode/nwNccs
Effie and Wendall Hussey "cross over" with Edward about his humble beginnings, finding his "gift," leaving the hospital system, and navigating TV and stadium performances. Date: June 23, 2024.
Edward's second appearance on Grynberg's podcast (first: June 19, 2023; third: July 27, 2026). In this episode he gave a live reading to someone in the studio "which takes an unexpected twist," and discussed why some psychics get predictions wrong. Date: July 1, 2024.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
(Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nlftcwTsRA2Syom5ir3M1)
Edward returned to Jess Rowe's podcast (following his June 13, 2023 first chat) to share what those who have crossed over "want us to know," how to tell if they are around us, and how to support someone through grief. Date: July 30, 2024.
URL: https://shows.acast.com/can-we-be-real/episodes/john-edward-crossing
(Also on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-edward-crossing-over/id1686868043?i=1000666838123)
Edward discussed how he speaks to people who have passed, and members of the Can We Be Real? community received readings. Date: August 28, 2024.
On the grief podcast Good Mourning, Edward shared personal stories of loss, why understanding the "language of energy" can help us recognize everyday signs of connection, and why the second year of grief can be surprisingly harder. Date: October 31, 2024.
Hosts Frank Sepe and Zack Zeigler interview Edward "and get real about the highs and lows of his work—carrying the weight of grief, spotting social media scammers, and even being called the 'Biggest Douche in the Universe' by South Park." The show notes flag a segment at ~12:00 on "The South Park roast." Date: February 22, 2025.
See also: John Edward: South Park Reception
Edward talked with Maritza Barone about how his gift came to him at 15, how he first began reading for family and friends, and what the afterlife can teach us about living — part of his 2025 Australian tour. Date: July 8, 2025.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ej8IchiW4
Edward returned to Howie Mandel's podcast alongside former FBI Special Agent Robert Hilland to discuss Chasing Evil — the book documenting how the skeptical agent reached out to Edward for help on a baffling case and the twenty-five-year crime-solving partnership that followed, including the investigation of serial killer John Smith. Mandel jokes that Edward is the only guest he'd invite back as a solo guest. Date: September 2, 2025.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyWHJphT2bQ
Edward's appearance on Michael Rosenbaum's podcast, covering cynicism, stories from readings, and being "kicked from Dr. Phil." Date: August 2025.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQLQnt88Ag
Edward talked with Maria Menounos about becoming "your own psychic" and what he saw ahead in 2025. Date: September 2025.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
Jess welcomed Edward back to explore the afterlife, grief, and the signs our loved ones send us — answering questions on spirit guides, dreams, and the purpose of souls, and leading an exercise to release negative energy. Date: October 14, 2025.
URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/psychic-medium-john-edward/id1527621448?i=1000732146103
Paolo Presta talks with Edward about "his secret life working with the FBI" in Chasing Evil and his 40+ year journey providing comfort and healing. (Note: the previously listed YouTube link for this episode was broken; the Apple Podcasts listing above is the working link.) Date: October 16, 2025.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence
URL: https://omny.fm/shows/the-jess-rowe-big-talk-show/john-edward-how-to-block-bad-energy-and-find-hope
(Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/amM_9MPip2c)
Described in the show notes as "the most popular guest we've ever had," Edward joined Jess Rowe again to discuss choosing hope over negativity, protecting your energy, and why some people don't like what he does. Date: July 22, 2026.
Edward returned to Maritza Barone's podcast to discuss why connection — not closure — is what people are seeking, how relationships can continue beyond death, and his work with former FBI agent Robert Hilland on Chasing Evil. Date: July 28, 2026.
See also: John Edward: Mediumship and Scientific Evidence, John Edward: South Park Reception, John Edward: Grief Counselors on Staff