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	'''Tyler Henry Koelewyn''' (born 13 January 1996), known professionally as '''Tyler Henry''', is an American television personality and self-described clairvoyant medium, best known for the E! reality series ''[[Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry]]'' and the Netflix series ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]''.~~<ref name="wiki">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Henry \|website=Wikipedia}}</ref>~~ He has built a career largely around filmed readings for celebrities, and has separately been involved in a small number of cases connecting his readings to unsolved crimes. His work has drawn sustained criticism from sceptics, who attribute his results to [[Mediumship\|cold reading and hot reading]] rather than any genuine psychic ability.<ref name="~~wiki~~" />		'''Tyler Henry Koelewyn''' (born 13 January 1996), known professionally as '''Tyler Henry''', is an American television personality and self-described clairvoyant medium, best known for the E! reality series ''[[Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry]]'' and the Netflix series ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]''. He has built a career largely around filmed readings for celebrities, and has separately been involved in a small number of cases connecting his readings to unsolved crimes. His work has drawn sustained criticism from sceptics, who attribute his results to [[Mediumship\|cold reading and hot reading]] rather than any genuine psychic ability.<ref name="skeptical1" />

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==
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	=== Discovery and early television appearances ===		=== Discovery and early television appearances ===
	Henry has said a psychic he consulted while in college told him he would begin filming a television show at 19 — a claim he has cited as an early validating experience of his own.<ref name="listbeforeafter" /> Actress Sarah Paulson, after receiving a reading, invited Henry to a Los Angeles gathering where he met talent managers Michael Corbett and Larry Stern; Corbett, describing himself as "a total skeptic," booked a private reading and has said he became convinced enough to pursue producing a television show around Henry.<ref name="listuntold" /> Footage of Henry reading a group of friends became the pitch that led to a deal with E!.<ref name="outline">{{cite web \|title=The Hollywood Medium has a secret \|url=https://theoutline.com/post/598/the-hollywood-medium-has-a-secret \|website=The Outline \|date=15 December 2016}}</ref> Henry's first public television appearance came in a ~~November~~ 2015 episode of ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'', in which he gave a reading connecting the Kardashian sisters to their late father, Robert Kardashian.<ref name="~~wiki~~" />		Henry has said a psychic he consulted while in college told him he would begin filming a television show at 19 — a claim he has cited as an early validating experience of his own.<ref name="listbeforeafter" /> Actress Sarah Paulson, after receiving a reading, invited Henry to a Los Angeles gathering where he met talent managers Michael Corbett and Larry Stern; Corbett, describing himself as "a total skeptic," booked a private reading and has said he became convinced enough to pursue producing a television show around Henry.<ref name="listuntold" /> Footage of Henry reading a group of friends became the pitch that led to a deal with E!.<ref name="outline">{{cite web \|title=The Hollywood Medium has a secret \|url=https://theoutline.com/post/598/the-hollywood-medium-has-a-secret \|website=The Outline \|date=15 December 2016}}</ref> Henry's first public television appearance came in a 2015 episode of ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'', in which he gave a reading connecting the Kardashian sisters to their late father, Robert Kardashian.<ref name="nickiswift" />

	=== Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry ===		=== Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry ===
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	=== Later television work ===		=== Later television work ===
	Henry went on to host ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]'' on Netflix, which continued the celebrity-reading format and also incorporated cold-case material (see below), and ''[[Life From the Other Side]]'', a further Netflix series airing in autumn 2024.<ref name="skeptical3">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry Bombs From the Other Side \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/tyler-henry-bombs-from-the-other-side/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=23 December 2024}}</ref> He has also published two books: a memoir, ''Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side'' (2016), and ''Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now'' (2022).<ref name="~~wiki~~" />		Henry went on to host ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]'' on Netflix, which continued the celebrity-reading format and also incorporated cold-case material (see below), and ''[[Life From the Other Side]]'', a further Netflix series airing in autumn 2024.<ref name="skeptical3">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry Bombs From the Other Side \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/tyler-henry-bombs-from-the-other-side/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=23 December 2024}}</ref> He has also published two books: a memoir, ''Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side'' (2016), and ''Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now'' (2022).<ref name="goodreads">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry (Author) \|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29767567 \|website=Goodreads}}</ref>

	== Celebrity readings ==		== Celebrity readings ==
	Across his television career, Henry has read a wide range of celebrities on camera, including Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Jaleel White, RuPaul, Jim Parsons, David Arquette, Chrissy Metz, Rebel Wilson, Lizzo, Nene Leakes, Jaime Pressly, and television host Matt Lauer, among others.<ref name="listtragic" /><ref name="~~tylerhenrysite~~">{{cite web \|title=~~About~~ Tyler Henry \|url=https://www.~~thetylerhenrymedium~~.com/~~about~~-tyler-~~henry/~~ \|website=~~Tyler Henry — official site~~}}</ref> Notable individual readings include:		Across his television career, Henry has read a wide range of celebrities on camera, including Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Jaleel White, RuPaul, Jim Parsons, David Arquette, Chrissy Metz, Rebel Wilson, Lizzo, Nene Leakes, Jaime Pressly, Savannah Chrisley, Larry Birkhead, and television host Matt Lauer, among others.<ref name="listtragic" /><ref name="people">{{cite web \|title=Who Is Celebrity Medium Tyler Henry's Husband? All About Clint Godwin and Their Nearly Decade-Long Relationship \|url=https://www.aol.com/celebrity-medium-tyler-henrys-husband-201650072.html \|website=People (via AOL)}}</ref> Notable individual readings include:

	* '''Megan Fox''' — Henry reportedly raised concerns during a reading that foreshadowed relationship difficulties between Fox and then-partner Brian Austin Green.<ref name="listtragic" />		* '''Megan Fox''' — Henry reportedly raised concerns during a reading that foreshadowed relationship difficulties between Fox and then-partner Brian Austin Green.<ref name="listtragic" />
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	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==
	Henry is gay, and married ~~photographer~~ Clint Godwin in 2025.<ref name="~~wiki~~" />		Henry is gay. He met artist and musician Clint Godwin in 2016, after Godwin saw him on ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' and messaged him requesting a reading; Henry has said he immediately connected Godwin to his grandfather, who had recently died by suicide, and relayed the circumstances of his death during the session.<ref name="people" /> The two began a relationship that lasted almost a decade before they married at the Beverly Hills courthouse on 7 May 2025.<ref name="popculture2">{{cite web \|title=Celebrity Medium Tyler Henry Gets Married After Nearly a Decade of Dating Clint Godwin \|url=https://popculture.com/celebrity-couples/news/celebrity-medium-tyler-henry-gets-married-after-nearly-a-decade-of-dating-clint-godwin/ \|website=PopCulture.com \|date=16 May 2025}}</ref> Godwin, a painter and stained-glass artist, also creates music with Henry; the pair have released several songs together, including "Together Again" and "Tipping Point."<ref name="people" />

	== Scientific and sceptical perspective ==		== Scientific and sceptical perspective ==
	Henry's work has drawn sustained, detailed criticism from the sceptical community, most notably from writer [[Susan Gerbic]], who has published a long-running series of investigations into his readings for ''Skeptical Inquirer'' under the title "Operation Tater Tot."<ref name="skeptical2">{{cite web \|title=Eventually I'm going to piss off Tyler Henry \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/eventually-im-going-to-piss-off-tyler-henry/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=3 July 2017}}</ref> Gerbic and other critics argue that Henry's results are consistent with '''cold reading''' — offering vague, broadly applicable statements and adjusting based on a subject's visible reactions — rather than genuine mediumship, and some critics have further alleged instances of '''hot reading''', meaning prior research into a subject conducted before a session despite on-camera claims that no such information was available to him.<ref name="~~wiki~~" /><ref name="~~skeptical2~~" /> A 2022 review of ''Life After Death'' by McGill University's Office for Science and Society reached similar conclusions, noting that unsuccessful or unconvincing readings are unlikely to make it into the final broadcast cut, and that specific details in Henry's Netflix cold-case reading did not hold up against the actual facts of the case once compared directly.<ref name="mcgill" />		Henry's work has drawn sustained, detailed criticism from the sceptical community, most notably from writer [[Susan Gerbic]], who has published a long-running series of investigations into his readings for ''Skeptical Inquirer'' under the title "Operation Tater Tot."<ref name="skeptical2">{{cite web \|title=Eventually I'm going to piss off Tyler Henry \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/eventually-im-going-to-piss-off-tyler-henry/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=3 July 2017}}</ref> Gerbic and other critics argue that Henry's results are consistent with '''cold reading''' — offering vague, broadly applicable statements and adjusting based on a subject's visible reactions — rather than genuine mediumship, and some critics have further alleged instances of '''hot reading''', meaning prior research into a subject conducted before a session despite on-camera claims that no such information was available to him.<ref name="skeptical2" /><ref name="outline" /> A 2022 review of ''Life After Death'' by McGill University's Office for Science and Society reached similar conclusions, noting that unsuccessful or unconvincing readings are unlikely to make it into the final broadcast cut, and that specific details in Henry's Netflix cold-case reading did not hold up against the actual facts of the case once compared directly.<ref name="mcgill" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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	== References ==		== References ==
	{{~~reflist~~}}		{{Reflist}}

	== External links ==		== External links ==
	* [https://en.~~wikipedia~~.~~org~~/~~wiki~~/~~Tyler_Henry Wikipedia —~~ Tyler Henry]		* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7146046/ Tyler Henry on IMDb]
	* [https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-last-time-i-will-write-about-tyler-henry/ Skeptical Inquirer — This Is the Last Time I Will Write About Tyler Henry. Probably]		* [https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-last-time-i-will-write-about-tyler-henry/ Skeptical Inquirer — This Is the Last Time I Will Write About Tyler Henry. Probably]
	* [https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/netflixs-afterlife-show-dead-arrival McGill University Office for Science and Society — Netflix's Afterlife Show with Medium Tyler Henry Is Dead on Arrival]		* [https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/netflixs-afterlife-show-dead-arrival McGill University Office for Science and Society — Netflix's Afterlife Show with Medium Tyler Henry Is Dead on Arrival]

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	'''Tyler Henry Koelewyn''' (born 13 January 1996), known professionally as '''Tyler Henry''', is an American television personality and self-described clairvoyant medium, best known for the E! reality series ''Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry'' and the Netflix series ''Life After Death with Tyler Henry''. He has built a career largely around filmed readings for celebrities, and has separately been involved in a small number of cases connecting his readings to unsolved crimes. His work has drawn sustained criticism from sceptics, who attribute his results to cold reading and hot reading rather than any genuine psychic ability.		'''Tyler Henry Koelewyn''' (born 13 January 1996), known professionally as '''Tyler Henry''', is an American television personality and self-described clairvoyant medium, best known for the E! reality series ''[[Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry]]'' and the Netflix series ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]''.<ref name="wiki">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Henry \|website=Wikipedia}}</ref> He has built a career largely around filmed readings for celebrities, and has separately been involved in a small number of cases connecting his readings to unsolved crimes. His work has drawn sustained criticism from sceptics, who attribute his results to [[Mediumship\|cold reading and hot reading]] rather than any genuine psychic ability.<ref name="wiki" />

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==
	Henry was born in Hanford, California, a small city near Fresno, and grew up as an only child to parents Theresa and David Koelewyn. He has said he first noticed intuitive mental images at around age 10, in 2006, coinciding with his grandmother's terminal cancer diagnosis, and that he later came to interpret these as a foretelling of her death. As a teenager at Sierra Pacific High School in Hanford, Henry began giving informal readings to classmates and, by his own account, some teachers, in exchange for money. Dissatisfied with conventional high school, he left to complete an accelerated homeschooling programme, graduating at 16. He briefly attended West Hills College in Coalinga, California, intending to train as a hospice nurse, while continuing to give private readings at a local bookstore.		Henry was born in Hanford, California, a small city near Fresno, and grew up as an only child to parents Theresa and David Koelewyn.<ref name="nickiswift">{{cite web \|title=Hollywood Medium's Tyler Henry Has Lived A Tragic Life \|url=https://www.nickiswift.com/2064380/ragic-details-hollywood-medium-tyler-henry/ \|website=Nicki Swift \|date=3 January 2026}}</ref> He has said he first noticed intuitive mental images at around age 10, in 2006, coinciding with his grandmother's terminal cancer diagnosis, and that he later came to interpret these as a foretelling of her death.<ref name="listtragic">{{cite web \|title=Tragic Details Of Hollywood Medium's Tyler Henry \|url=https://www.thelist.com/1963436/hollywood-medium-tyler-henry-tragic-details/ \|website=The List \|date=15 September 2025}}</ref> As a teenager at Sierra Pacific High School in Hanford, Henry began giving informal readings to classmates and, by his own account, some teachers, in exchange for money.<ref name="listuntold">{{cite web \|title=The Untold Truth Of Hollywood Medium's Tyler Henry \|url=https://www.thelist.com/145966/the-untold-truth-of-hollywood-mediums-tyler-henry/ \|website=The List \|date=16 June 2025}}</ref> Dissatisfied with conventional high school, he left to complete an accelerated homeschooling programme, graduating at 16. He briefly attended West Hills College in Coalinga, California, intending to train as a hospice nurse, while continuing to give private readings at a local bookstore.<ref name="listbeforeafter">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry: From Child Clairvoyant To Hollywood Medium \|url=https://www.thelist.com/1068757/tyler-henry-before-after-becoming-the-hollywood-medium/ \|website=The List \|date=21 August 2025}}</ref>

	== Career ==		== Career ==

	=== Discovery and early television appearances ===		=== Discovery and early television appearances ===
	Henry has said a psychic he consulted while in college told him he would begin filming a television show at 19 — a claim he has cited as an early validating experience of his own. Actress Sarah Paulson, after receiving a reading, invited Henry to a Los Angeles gathering where he met talent managers Michael Corbett and Larry Stern; Corbett, describing himself as "a total skeptic," booked a private reading and has said he became convinced enough to pursue producing a television show around Henry. Footage of Henry reading a group of friends became the pitch that led to a deal with E!. Henry's first public television appearance came in a November 2015 episode of ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'', in which he gave a reading connecting the Kardashian sisters to their late father, Robert Kardashian.		Henry has said a psychic he consulted while in college told him he would begin filming a television show at 19 — a claim he has cited as an early validating experience of his own.<ref name="listbeforeafter" /> Actress Sarah Paulson, after receiving a reading, invited Henry to a Los Angeles gathering where he met talent managers Michael Corbett and Larry Stern; Corbett, describing himself as "a total skeptic," booked a private reading and has said he became convinced enough to pursue producing a television show around Henry.<ref name="listuntold" /> Footage of Henry reading a group of friends became the pitch that led to a deal with E!.<ref name="outline">{{cite web \|title=The Hollywood Medium has a secret \|url=https://theoutline.com/post/598/the-hollywood-medium-has-a-secret \|website=The Outline \|date=15 December 2016}}</ref> Henry's first public television appearance came in a November 2015 episode of ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'', in which he gave a reading connecting the Kardashian sisters to their late father, Robert Kardashian.<ref name="wiki" />

	=== Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry ===		=== Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry ===
	''Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry'' premiered on E! in January 2016, when Henry was 19, and ran for four seasons, drawing an average of roughly 900,000 viewers per episode. The format centred on filmed one-on-one readings with celebrity guests, typically staged without Henry being told in advance who he would be reading — a point the show consistently emphasised on camera, partly in response to sceptics who alleged he researched subjects beforehand. Henry has said that after the first season aired, he received over 175,000 requests for private readings.		''[[Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry]]'' premiered on E! in January 2016, when Henry was 19, and ran for four seasons, drawing an average of roughly 900,000 viewers per episode.<ref name="listbeforeafter" /> The format centred on filmed one-on-one readings with celebrity guests, typically staged without Henry being told in advance who he would be reading — a point the show consistently emphasised on camera, partly in response to sceptics who alleged he researched subjects beforehand.<ref name="skeptical1">{{cite web \|title=This Is the Last Time I Will Write About Tyler Henry. Probably \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-last-time-i-will-write-about-tyler-henry/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=8 December 2017}}</ref> Henry has said that after the first season aired, he received over 175,000 requests for private readings.<ref name="nickiswift" />

	=== Later television work ===		=== Later television work ===
	Henry went on to host ''Life After Death with Tyler Henry'' on Netflix, which continued the celebrity-reading format and also incorporated cold-case material (see below), and ''Life From the Other Side'', a further Netflix series airing in autumn 2024. He has also published two books: a memoir, ''Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side'' (2016), and ''Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now'' (2022).		Henry went on to host ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]'' on Netflix, which continued the celebrity-reading format and also incorporated cold-case material (see below), and ''[[Life From the Other Side]]'', a further Netflix series airing in autumn 2024.<ref name="skeptical3">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry Bombs From the Other Side \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/tyler-henry-bombs-from-the-other-side/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=23 December 2024}}</ref> He has also published two books: a memoir, ''Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side'' (2016), and ''Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now'' (2022).<ref name="wiki" />

	== Celebrity readings ==		== Celebrity readings ==
	Across his television career, Henry has read a wide range of celebrities on camera, including Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Jaleel White, RuPaul, Jim Parsons, David Arquette, Chrissy Metz, Rebel Wilson, Lizzo, Nene Leakes, Jaime Pressly, and television host Matt Lauer, among others. Notable individual readings include:		Across his television career, Henry has read a wide range of celebrities on camera, including Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Jaleel White, RuPaul, Jim Parsons, David Arquette, Chrissy Metz, Rebel Wilson, Lizzo, Nene Leakes, Jaime Pressly, and television host Matt Lauer, among others.<ref name="listtragic" /><ref name="tylerhenrysite">{{cite web \|title=About Tyler Henry \|url=https://www.thetylerhenrymedium.com/about-tyler-henry/ \|website=Tyler Henry — official site}}</ref> Notable individual readings include:

	* '''Megan Fox''' — Henry reportedly raised concerns during a reading that foreshadowed relationship difficulties between Fox and then-partner Brian Austin Green.		* '''Megan Fox''' — Henry reportedly raised concerns during a reading that foreshadowed relationship difficulties between Fox and then-partner Brian Austin Green.<ref name="listtragic" />
	* '''Jaleel White''' — Henry connected White with a message he attributed to his late ''Family Matters'' co-star Michelle Thomas.		* '''Jaleel White''' — Henry connected White with a message he attributed to his late ''Family Matters'' co-star Michelle Thomas.<ref name="listtragic" />
	* '''RuPaul''' — Henry has described this session as his own personal favourite reading given during his career.		* '''RuPaul''' — Henry has described this session as his own personal favourite reading given during his career.<ref name="nickiswift" />
	* '''Matt Lauer''' — a 2016 televised reading, later revisited by sceptics after Lauer's 2017 dismissal from ''Today'' amid misconduct allegations, questioning whether any element of the original reading could be read as having anticipated the scandal.		* '''Matt Lauer''' — a 2016 televised reading, later revisited by sceptics after Lauer's 2017 dismissal from ''Today'' amid misconduct allegations, questioning whether any element of the original reading could be read as having anticipated the scandal.<ref name="skeptical1" />

	== Involvement in crime-related cases ==		== Involvement in crime-related cases ==
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	=== Tommy Booth and the "Smiley Face Killers" theory ===		=== Tommy Booth and the "Smiley Face Killers" theory ===
	Henry appeared in the Oxygen series ''Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice'', giving a reading connected to Tommy Booth, a 24-year-old contractor who disappeared in January 2008 and was later found drowned in a creek in circumstances his mother, Barbara MacKay, has long argued were not accidental. Investigators involved in the wider "Smiley Face Killers" theory believe Booth may have been a victim of a broader pattern of drowning deaths among young men, a theory that remains disputed within law enforcement and among criminologists generally.		Henry appeared in the Oxygen series ''[[Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice]]'', giving a reading connected to Tommy Booth, a 24-year-old contractor who disappeared in January 2008 and was later found drowned in a creek in circumstances his mother, Barbara MacKay, has long argued were not accidental.<ref name="oxygen">{{cite web \|title='Hollywood Medium' Tyler Henry Reads Potential 'Smiley Face' Victim Tommy Booth's Mother \|url=https://www.oxygen.com/smiley-face-killers-the-hunt-for-justice/crime-time/hollywood-medium-tyler-henry-reads-potential \|website=Oxygen \|date=21 February 2019}}</ref> Investigators involved in the wider "Smiley Face Killers" theory believe Booth may have been a victim of a broader pattern of drowning deaths among young men, a theory that remains disputed within law enforcement and among criminologists generally.<ref name="oxygen" />

	=== Life After Death cold case ===		=== Life After Death cold case ===
	The premiere episode of ''Life After Death with Tyler Henry'' featured Henry conducting a reading connected to an active cold case, working with a private investigator rather than a family member directly. Henry has described the process as fundamentally similar to reading a living person, applied instead to case material. Critics reviewing the episode noted that Henry's specific statements — including a claim of difficulty breathing in connection with a case that was in fact a hit-and-run — did not clearly match the known facts of the case once the family's own account was included.		The premiere episode of ''[[Life After Death with Tyler Henry]]'' featured Henry conducting a reading connected to an active cold case, working with a private investigator rather than a family member directly.<ref name="popculture">{{cite web \|title=Tyler Henry Addresses 'Very Emotional' Cold Case Reading on Netflix Series 'Life After Death' \|url=https://popculture.com/reality-tv/news/tyler-henry-addresses-very-emotional-cold-case-reading-netflix-series-life-after-death-exclusive/ \|website=PopCulture.com \|date=7 October 2024}}</ref> Henry has described the process as fundamentally similar to reading a living person, applied instead to case material.<ref name="popculture" /> Critics reviewing the episode noted that Henry's specific statements — including a claim of difficulty breathing in connection with a case that was in fact a hit-and-run — did not clearly match the known facts of the case once the family's own account was included.<ref name="mcgill">{{cite web \|title=Netflix's Afterlife Show with Medium Tyler Henry Is Dead on Arrival \|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/netflixs-afterlife-show-dead-arrival \|website=McGill University Office for Science and Society \|date=19 March 2022}}</ref>

	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==
	Henry is gay, and married photographer Clint Godwin in 2025.		Henry is gay, and married photographer Clint Godwin in 2025.<ref name="wiki" />

	== Scientific and sceptical perspective ==		== Scientific and sceptical perspective ==
	Henry's work has drawn sustained, detailed criticism from the sceptical community, most notably from writer Susan Gerbic, who has published a long-running series of investigations into his readings for ''Skeptical Inquirer'' under the title "Operation Tater Tot." Gerbic and other critics argue that Henry's results are consistent with '''cold reading''' — offering vague, broadly applicable statements and adjusting based on a subject's visible reactions — rather than genuine mediumship, and some critics have further alleged instances of '''hot reading''', meaning prior research into a subject conducted before a session despite on-camera claims that no such information was available to him. A 2022 review of ''Life After Death'' by McGill University's Office for Science and Society reached similar conclusions, noting that unsuccessful or unconvincing readings are unlikely to make it into the final broadcast cut, and that specific details in Henry's Netflix cold-case reading did not hold up against the actual facts of the case once compared directly. ~~As with other subjects gathered under [[Mediumship]], no controlled test has demonstrated Henry's readings producing information he could not have obtained by conventional means.~~		Henry's work has drawn sustained, detailed criticism from the sceptical community, most notably from writer [[Susan Gerbic]], who has published a long-running series of investigations into his readings for ''Skeptical Inquirer'' under the title "Operation Tater Tot."<ref name="skeptical2">{{cite web \|title=Eventually I'm going to piss off Tyler Henry \|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/eventually-im-going-to-piss-off-tyler-henry/ \|website=Skeptical Inquirer \|date=3 July 2017}}</ref> Gerbic and other critics argue that Henry's results are consistent with '''cold reading''' — offering vague, broadly applicable statements and adjusting based on a subject's visible reactions — rather than genuine mediumship, and some critics have further alleged instances of '''hot reading''', meaning prior research into a subject conducted before a session despite on-camera claims that no such information was available to him.<ref name="wiki" /><ref name="skeptical2" /> A 2022 review of ''Life After Death'' by McGill University's Office for Science and Society reached similar conclusions, noting that unsuccessful or unconvincing readings are unlikely to make it into the final broadcast cut, and that specific details in Henry's Netflix cold-case reading did not hold up against the actual facts of the case once compared directly.<ref name="mcgill" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Mediumship]]		* [[Mediumship]]
	* [[:Category:Psychic Mediums\|Psychic Mediums]]		* [[:Category:Psychic Mediums\|Psychic Mediums]]

			== References ==
			{{reflist}}

	== External links ==		== External links ==
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'''Tyler Henry Koelewyn''' (born 13 January 1996), known professionally as '''Tyler Henry''', is an American television personality and self-described clairvoyant medium, best known for the E! reality series ''Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry'' and the Netflix series ''Life After Death with Tyler Henry''. He has built a career largely around filmed readings for celebrities, and has separately been involved in a small number of cases connecting his readings to unsolved crimes. His work has drawn sustained criticism from sceptics, who attribute his results to cold reading and hot reading rather than any genuine psychic ability.

== Early life ==
Henry was born in Hanford, California, a small city near Fresno, and grew up as an only child to parents Theresa and David Koelewyn. He has said he first noticed intuitive mental images at around age 10, in 2006, coinciding with his grandmother's terminal cancer diagnosis, and that he later came to interpret these as a foretelling of her death. As a teenager at Sierra Pacific High School in Hanford, Henry began giving informal readings to classmates and, by his own account, some teachers, in exchange for money. Dissatisfied with conventional high school, he left to complete an accelerated homeschooling programme, graduating at 16. He briefly attended West Hills College in Coalinga, California, intending to train as a hospice nurse, while continuing to give private readings at a local bookstore.

== Career ==

=== Discovery and early television appearances ===
Henry has said a psychic he consulted while in college told him he would begin filming a television show at 19 — a claim he has cited as an early validating experience of his own. Actress Sarah Paulson, after receiving a reading, invited Henry to a Los Angeles gathering where he met talent managers Michael Corbett and Larry Stern; Corbett, describing himself as "a total skeptic," booked a private reading and has said he became convinced enough to pursue producing a television show around Henry. Footage of Henry reading a group of friends became the pitch that led to a deal with E!. Henry's first public television appearance came in a November 2015 episode of ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'', in which he gave a reading connecting the Kardashian sisters to their late father, Robert Kardashian.

=== Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry ===
''Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry'' premiered on E! in January 2016, when Henry was 19, and ran for four seasons, drawing an average of roughly 900,000 viewers per episode. The format centred on filmed one-on-one readings with celebrity guests, typically staged without Henry being told in advance who he would be reading — a point the show consistently emphasised on camera, partly in response to sceptics who alleged he researched subjects beforehand. Henry has said that after the first season aired, he received over 175,000 requests for private readings.

=== Later television work ===
Henry went on to host ''Life After Death with Tyler Henry'' on Netflix, which continued the celebrity-reading format and also incorporated cold-case material (see below), and ''Life From the Other Side'', a further Netflix series airing in autumn 2024. He has also published two books: a memoir, ''Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side'' (2016), and ''Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now'' (2022).

== Celebrity readings ==
Across his television career, Henry has read a wide range of celebrities on camera, including Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Jaleel White, RuPaul, Jim Parsons, David Arquette, Chrissy Metz, Rebel Wilson, Lizzo, Nene Leakes, Jaime Pressly, and television host Matt Lauer, among others. Notable individual readings include:

* '''Megan Fox''' — Henry reportedly raised concerns during a reading that foreshadowed relationship difficulties between Fox and then-partner Brian Austin Green.
* '''Jaleel White''' — Henry connected White with a message he attributed to his late ''Family Matters'' co-star Michelle Thomas.
* '''RuPaul''' — Henry has described this session as his own personal favourite reading given during his career.
* '''Matt Lauer''' — a 2016 televised reading, later revisited by sceptics after Lauer's 2017 dismissal from ''Today'' amid misconduct allegations, questioning whether any element of the original reading could be read as having anticipated the scandal.

== Involvement in crime-related cases ==
Henry has occasionally connected his reading practice to real unsolved cases, though always in an unofficial capacity rather than as part of any police investigation.

=== Tommy Booth and the "Smiley Face Killers" theory ===
Henry appeared in the Oxygen series ''Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice'', giving a reading connected to Tommy Booth, a 24-year-old contractor who disappeared in January 2008 and was later found drowned in a creek in circumstances his mother, Barbara MacKay, has long argued were not accidental. Investigators involved in the wider "Smiley Face Killers" theory believe Booth may have been a victim of a broader pattern of drowning deaths among young men, a theory that remains disputed within law enforcement and among criminologists generally.

=== Life After Death cold case ===
The premiere episode of ''Life After Death with Tyler Henry'' featured Henry conducting a reading connected to an active cold case, working with a private investigator rather than a family member directly. Henry has described the process as fundamentally similar to reading a living person, applied instead to case material. Critics reviewing the episode noted that Henry's specific statements — including a claim of difficulty breathing in connection with a case that was in fact a hit-and-run — did not clearly match the known facts of the case once the family's own account was included.

== Personal life ==
Henry is gay, and married photographer Clint Godwin in 2025.

== Scientific and sceptical perspective ==
Henry's work has drawn sustained, detailed criticism from the sceptical community, most notably from writer Susan Gerbic, who has published a long-running series of investigations into his readings for ''Skeptical Inquirer'' under the title "Operation Tater Tot." Gerbic and other critics argue that Henry's results are consistent with '''cold reading''' — offering vague, broadly applicable statements and adjusting based on a subject's visible reactions — rather than genuine mediumship, and some critics have further alleged instances of '''hot reading''', meaning prior research into a subject conducted before a session despite on-camera claims that no such information was available to him. A 2022 review of ''Life After Death'' by McGill University's Office for Science and Society reached similar conclusions, noting that unsuccessful or unconvincing readings are unlikely to make it into the final broadcast cut, and that specific details in Henry's Netflix cold-case reading did not hold up against the actual facts of the case once compared directly. As with other subjects gathered under [[Mediumship]], no controlled test has demonstrated Henry's readings producing information he could not have obtained by conventional means.

== See also ==
* [[Mediumship]]
* [[:Category:Psychic Mediums|Psychic Mediums]]

== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Henry Wikipedia — Tyler Henry]
* [https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-last-time-i-will-write-about-tyler-henry/ Skeptical Inquirer — This Is the Last Time I Will Write About Tyler Henry. Probably]
* [https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/netflixs-afterlife-show-dead-arrival McGill University Office for Science and Society — Netflix's Afterlife Show with Medium Tyler Henry Is Dead on Arrival]
* [https://www.thetylerhenrymedium.com/about-tyler-henry/ Tyler Henry — official site]

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