Help, get me out of here!
As soon as they invited me onto the show, I knew there would be trouble. I even got a psychic flash about eating bugs. But I ignored it because I wanted, so badly, to help raise such a large sum for charity.

I prepared myself for everything I could think of: snakes, spiders, heat, hardship, even conflict between the celebrities.

But I never expected to find Kevin OšSullivan, in the Mirror newspaper, being so relentlessly horrible about me. When I came out of the rain forest, I was shocked.

I didn't mind the insults. I have been getting those for thirty years. I have a strong accent, I am a pushy Israeli - and to cap it all, I bend spoons!

I can even understand why Kevin tried so hard to portray me as a letch. People like him often have a problem with "hands-on-healing." They don't understand the way those forces work. It makes them feel big to belittle the process by insinuating smut.

But one day, there was also a story about my wife Hannah. It said that she ran from the viewing room, crying, when she saw my behaviour towards the women on the show. Hannah is by my side now as I write this.

She has asked me to tell you that it simply isn't true. The only tears she ever shed were tears of laughter at some of my antics and of amazement when I ate those creepy crawlies. She knows me well and we love each other passionately - but it was hurtful to see such a story and our kids, too, were upset by it.

No doubt Mr O'Sullivan would say it goes along with the territory when you become a celebrity.

But then, as the series showed, we celebrities are only human! So, while I reserve the right to feel upset, I won't get angry. When we let anger get the better of us, our psychic abilities are compromised. And these are the most valuable things we can ever have.

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