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SINGER Engelbert Humperdinck has revealed that he takes his wife, Patricia, to healers in a bid to halt her Alzheimer’s disease.
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ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK: “I believe I have had
95 previous lives. Success in life leads to greater
things in future lives.”
(Photo: Wayne Dilger)
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Engelbert, 82, and Patricia, 79, have been married for 54 years. First diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ten years ago, she now has 24-hour care.
The singer, who has sold more than 150 million records, told the Daily Mail’s Lina Das that he discovered a gift for healing several years ago when on tour in Germany.
Suffering from a viral infection for over four months, Engelbert visited an iridologist, who cured him within two weeks. The practitioner told him, “You have healing powers.”
Though he “just laughed at him,” Engelbert decided to try healing. One of his patients had Bell’s palsy, which causes facial paralysis.
“I prayed for him and within three minutes his lip came down,” said the singer. “People think I’m crazy, but I don’t care. If I can help somebody in any way, that’s fine by me.
“With any healer, they say that the only person they can’t help is their spouse because they’re too close. I still pray over my wife, though. I do everything I can.”
The couple live in Bel Air, California and have four children. Of his wife’s condition, Engelbert said: “She’s doing OK considering that she’s had it for the past ten years.
“Patricia still knows me and knows everybody. Our son Scott came over from Australia a couple of days ago and she called him by his name.
“That’s totally unheard of because after ten years of Alzheimer’s nobody can say people’s names like that.
“When Scott went back to Australia, she cried, so she knows who he is. We’re doing everything we can to help her.
“I have acupuncturists see her, as well as my regular doctor, who’s wonderful. I also have people from the holistic world and I’ve taken her to see healers."
“I want her to see everybody because I think it’s important to investigate every avenue.
“Somebody will touch that nerve that will help cure her. That’s what I’m looking for and I’ll search until I find it.”
In his late 40s, Engelbert disclosed that since he was 21, his life had been guided by Spiritualism.
“I fully believe in life after death,” he said. “I have seen the ghost of actress Jayne Mansfield among other apparitions. Spiritualists have told me I am psychic.
“They have also said that I lived before as a Roman emperor. I don’t mind talking about these things. I believe I have had 95 previous lives. Success in life leads to greater things in future lives.”
Engelbert’s first Spiritualist “guide” was a clairvoyant in Leicester, who predicted he would find success as a singer.
“I was just getting over tuberculosis and wanted to see if I had a future in show business,” said Engelbert. “She guided me, said that I had a gift and that tremendous success would come to me.
“In later years I regularly visited a Spiritualist medium in Virginia City who I called ‘Mama’.”
Engelbert added: “I’m not a practising Spiritualist myself, but am a firm believer. I have found great solace in Spiritualism, especially since my dear father Mervyn died.
“The consolation is that when you lose someone very dear, you know some day you will see them again. I still feel that my father, who was 91 when he died, is around me.”
The singer revealed that he always had special feelings for Jayne Mansfield, who passed on at the age of 33 in an horrific car crash in 1967.
“I met her once when she was in cabaret in Leicester,” said Englebert. “We went for dinner and she invited me to stay in her house in Los Angeles.
“I accepted and kissed her goodbye. Two weeks later, I heard on my car radio that she was dead.
“Years later when I was looking for a house in Los Angeles, I was told that Jayne’s house, The Pink Palace, was for sale. I bought it sight unseen. It was almost fate for me.
“When I moved in, I often sensed Jayne was around. I’d smell her distinctive rose petal perfume. Once when I was very depressed, I saw a figure in a long black dress in front of me.
“It was Jayne. I felt she was there to protect me. I never felt any fear.”
When Engelbert and his wife were on holiday in Barbados, he awoke in the early hours to see the figure of an old lady at the foot of his bed wearing a black top and maxi-skirt.
She had short dark hair, hobbled about, beckoned Engelbert, walked towards a door, then disappeared in a swarm of little bubbles.
The next day, Engelbert learned from the new owners of the house where they were staying that an old lady of that exact description used to own it and passed on there.
“The most astonishing thing was that the description fitted the old lady exactly,” said the singer. “She was hobbling because she’d had an operation and was fitted with a plastic hip.”
At his former home in Weybridge, Surrey, Engelbert used to hear billiard balls rattling in a third-floor room and a reclining seat would mysteriously move.
The singer said that people ought to keep an open mind about psychic phenomena, and “shouldn’t go around like a horse on a milk-round – blinkered.”
Often, he said, he had visited a town, such as Wheeling in West Virginia, and felt instinctively that he had been there before.
Certain that his “dead” father was guiding him, Engelbert added: “Nobody who has died and left a strong mark on this earth, and with powers of good, can go without leaving something for others to benefit by.
“I am a fatalist and believe in destiny. If one is ambitious enough, then one will succeed, whereas a lazy person won’t.”
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