So there was a young lady that worked at Langston Hughes who came to Seattle and she got a job at Langston Hughes, "I'm a playwright, I'm an actress, I do all these things, and, and I'm just, I'm, I'm great, I'm so good that Whoopie Goldberg's character that she used and gained famous with she stole that from me," and we were like oh, you're full of it already, but okay. And her name is Ray Paris, Ray Paris is the name she went by. And she would come and we, she created this show called Supper Club Cafe. And it was an improv type show.
It was a group of sisters who owned a restaurant, uh that they did all this cooking and they had all their issues. One sister was an alcoholic, always flirting, another sister was you know, a singer and was gonna be famous and wasn't going to be at the restaurant long. And the show went great! We hired all these kids to usher and serve food, and at the end of the production, when all the kids received their checks, when they got to the bank, the banks told them the checks were no good. When we were contacted by Lowes and those places where we rented stuff from, they were like, "Where's our stuff? When do we get it back?" And we called Ray, and she was gone. And we were like, what, where did she go? Nobody knew, she had disappeared. Disappeared.
Three months later, one of the kids who was in the production, Sheree Seretse's son, Cameron Sparks, um, called me at 1 o'clock in the morning, "Isiah turn on your TV right now, hurry up, turn on your TV on, channel 11. Please." And I was like, "Cameron, what's going on?" "Just turn on your TV." And I turn on my TV, and there's Ray Paris, Miss Cleo!
"Call me now!" Psychic Hotline! She was a psychic hotline individual. She was the famous Miss Cleo. Who recently died and when she left Seattle she created the character Miss Cleo. And that's the truth. She left with all the money, nobody knew where, I mean, like literally, burned everybody. Took off.
We tried calling the hotline that night and she had everybody, I don't know how you set this up, but she had everybody from the State of Washington blocked. You couldn't get through. Miss Cleo worked at Langston Hughes.