RATED as one of the world's top mediums, Sally Morgan's reputation has been built from her close relationship with many high-profile celebrities.

Sally has read for a whole host of celebrities from film stars to radio presenters, musicians to soap actors. These have included the late George Michael, Koo Stark, Uma Thurman, Mel B and - most notably, Princess Diana who she read for over a period of several years.

Despite having turned 65 Psychic Sally is on another extensive UK tour that includes Southampton's 02 Guildhall on Thursday March 30.

The glamorous pensioner told the Daily Echo her ‘workaholic’ nature means she will not give up the gruelling theatre tours despite the controversy and even death threats that follow her.

She said: “My daughters say I have ADHD. I’m a workaholic. I’d rather that than have no work – that would be horrendous. I have lots of energy – which I’ve needed to do this for the last 30 or 40 years and with such intensity in the last 20 years; where that comes from I don’t know.

“I’m well looked after by my family. My son-in-law drives me and organises the hotels. He makes sure I’ve got bananas for energy and Hum Bugs to suck and bottles of water in the back of the car. Those little things mean a lot and make a difference – they’re like a comfort blanket!” she laughs.

“But on my days off I will go and have a cat nap in the afternoon from 4-6pm and that totally revives me."

Sally says she has always had a psychic gift, but cannot recall exactly when it started.

“It’s only when you are told by someone else that you become aware. I have a grandson who has red hair and he has no idea of the significance of it. He will be called ‘Ginger’ at school and then he will think ‘Yes, I’m different to my friends.’ It was only when I was 11/12 in secondary school that people said to me ‘Are you that girl who says things that come true. I would say ‘no’. It was only as an adult that it registered with me that I’m different because it is only then that you look at the consequences of what you say.

“I never set out to make a career out of this. I was inundated with people at the weekend asking for readings. I didn’t keep a diary. People would just knock on my door and it got so bad my husband John said ‘you need to stop them’. But I grew up in the 40s and 50s and working class people didn’t have diaries – they were for putting birthdays in. Only posh people ‘made appointments’.

Fulham born and bred, Sally says she had a “very poor upbringing”, far removed from her ‘psychic to the stars’ status, but adds: “We all felt we were normal as we all had the same. You could leave your front door open all day. No one pinched anything as we all had nothing.

" My ambition was to be a midwife. I never completed my education because there was no money so I had to get a job.”

So how did Sally go from this to giving psychic readings for celebrities?

“...by just having a practice at home. I never, ever advertised. It’s not rocket science. If I saw a secretary she would tell five other secretaries in her office about me. If I saw a pop star or a member of parliament, then five more people they knew would come. It was word of mouth. I never knew who they were. People would come to my humble house and have a reading and I never asked who recommended me. Someone once said to me’ You’re the best kept secret in London’!

So how does Sally feel when she receives negative press or comments?

“It goes with the territory. They are always out there and they even plant people in the audience to catch me out! They hate the fact that I’m out there doing what I do. It’s never going to go away.

“It’s like the tide: King Canute stands there saying ”go back” but it will never happen. "

Has she become more thick-skinned?

“No, I really haven’t. I have tight security and have a bodyguard with me all the time on tour. Some of these people are extremist. With social media it breeds extreme people. And they do all their trolling at two, three, four, five in the morning. I don’t read it. I employ a company to do that for me.

“It’s a modern day witch hunt. It’s just like the days when they burnt witches – the Inquisition. If they could pull me off stage and tie me to a stake and burn me, they would.”

So is she not tempted to give it all up?

“I give people hope and I’m a good woman. I’m not bad at all. They are the freaks. Why would I sell up when every theatre is sold out? I have an amazing fan base. They do say the darker the night, the brighter the star.”

Southampton Guildhall

Box Office: 023 8063 2601

Sally is also at Ferneham Hall, Fareham on May 19. Box Office: 01329 231942 and Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre November 8 Box Office: 0844 576 3000