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'Psychic' Drag Queen Delilah Brooks Gets Her Own TV Show

 Delilah Brooks is the star of a new TV show called "Psychic Queen."
Delilah Brooks is the star of a new TV show called "Psychic Queen."
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NOHO — Delilah Brooks isn't just a drag performer — she's also a psychic.

Brooks — who grew up as a "gay kid in Westchester" and now does several drag shows a week in the Village and Chelsea — is coming out in a new role: the star of "Psychic Queen," a reality show documenting the psychic ability she says she's felt since childhood.

“As a kid, I always knew,” the Bronx resident said over a glass of unsweetened iced tea at BBar & Grill on a recent Friday night.

“I always felt things, but I didn’t know what I was feeling. So you do what any normal kid does and try to drown them out.”

When Brooks does a reading, she is effusive and warm, following her instincts and feelings to hit on the biggest issue clients are facing at the moment, whether it's a relationship, a career move or a financial decision.

Much of Brooks' new reality show — which launches on OUTtv, a national lesbian and gay television network in Canada and the Netherlands, on Halloween and will be available the following week on YouTube — revolves around Brooks learning to use her abilities.

The first person she “read” on camera was her best friend, which she requested because she said she’s still figuring out how it works.

“I needed it to be authentic for me first,” she said. “Everything changes when the energies hit.”

She said the scenes in the show that involve her “reading” someone are always done in one take.

“The second that s–-- happens, I can’t turn it off or take it back,” she laughed.

Brooks got her start in drag at Boots & Saddle, in the Village, when manager and co-owner Rob Ziegler gave her a chance three years ago at one of the first happy hour drag shows.

She now performs there every Sunday at 3:30 p.m., as well as at Barracuda in Chelsea every Wednesday at midnight and at Hardware Bar in Hell's Kitchen on Sundays at 10 p.m.

“Robert is a father to me in my career,” she said. She described Boots & Saddle as a home more than a place of work, and said she understands why the current fight over the bar's attempt to find a new location has been so emotionally charged.

“It’s a life — it’s not a bar,” she said. “The reason people [in the drag performance world] are so close is because they grew up doing this s--- together 20 years ago and those bonds never break.”

That’s why Brooks said she’s not abandoning her performances at Boots & Saddle, Barracuda and Hardware Bar. She has already lined up people to cover the days she knows she’ll need to take off.

“Eventually, I guess there’ll be a point when I have to go on tour," Brooks said, "but I’m never leaving, and that’s what I told everyone."

Check out the "Psychic Queen" trailer below: