Allison DuBois, 32, says she has been able to communicate with the dead since she was a little girl. Now, the Arizona-based medium will see herself portrayed by Patricia Arquette in the new NBC drama Medium. "I've seen the pilot episode," DuBois says. "It's hard for to me to watch. It's very emotional to me."Though it's unsettling to see her life onscreen, the married, mother of three daughters says, "It felt good at the same time. I felt like someone understood." DuBois, who prefers to be called a medium because she talks to the dead as opposed to a psychic who sees the future, remembers Arquette saying: "I wouldn't know how to live in such a macabre world." But DuBois says, "I've always lived this way, and I don't know another way."It's easier to deal with the dead than the living. I enjoy people who've passed. They don't have issues. They know I'm seeing and hearing them."And she says she uses her gift for good. "All I ever wanted to do is grow up and put bad guys away. I just didn't realize it would be in this way." About five years ago, DuBois was an intern in the homicide division of Phoenix's police department and planned for law school. But she began to see images that helped solve cases.Now, she works as a jury consultant and is periodically called on by the Phoenix district attorney's office.She went on hiatus from private readings in October and says her waiting list already is a year long. And she knows there will always be skeptics."For those people who don't believe in people like me, that's fine. I'm not trying to win them over. I'm just who I am."
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