Martin Roberts took the drastic decision to make a huge change to his life insurance after speaking to a palm reader. The BBC Homes Under the Hammer star visited the psychic who told him that he had “angels around a break in his lifeline”.
He admitted that the foreseeing encounter left him feeling “really spooked out” and he went home and “doubled his life insurance”.
Martin, 60, explained: “I was at a corporate event in America where they had a magician, someone doing card tricks and someone doing palm reading.
“I put my palm out and she stopped and went: ‘Oh, gee… I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a profound break in a lifeline – and you’ve got angels here’.
“I was really freaked out and went home and doubled my life insurance!”
The TV presenter went on to explain that he has since had a couple of close calls with death. First, he accidentally sliced his arm open and doctors told him he was hours from dying away after the fluid sack around his heart dangerously expanded.
Martin explained: “Five years later [after meeting the psychic] I was doing some DIY in Devon using an axle grinder to take a fireplace out.
“It fell to the floor and sliced through several tendons in my forearm and was close to an artery – it looked like something from The Terminator and required a 10-hour emergency operation.
“I connected it to the palm reader and for that reason it’s put me off ever wanting to have a full psychic reading as I have so much I still want to do.”
The DIY expert previously shared how he was told he had “a few hours to live” after finding out he was suffering from pericardial effusion – which is a build-up of fluid in the structure around the heart – and was rushed into surgery that saved his life.
Speaking about the experience, he said: “Everything you tried to do, and your family, you realise it could all be gone. I was told I needed to slow down and I’ve gone the other way. Hopefully I’ve got many years but you never know.
“That whole thing that happened to me makes you realise how thin a thread we dangle from. But you can’t go through life living in that fear.”
