Digital Social Hour
Entrepreneurship, Ghosts, and Viral Success Stories | Queen of Melrose DSH #1356
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Ready for a wild ride? 🚀 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he sits down with the Queen of Melrose, Cosmo, for an unforgettable conversation about entrepreneurship, ghosts, and viral success stories! 👑👻✨ From running iconic fashion boutiques on Melrose to sharing her inspiring journey of sobriety and survival, Cosmo spills it all with humor and heart. Hear how she turned her life around, went viral at a Madonna concert, and became a beacon of hope for others. 🌟 Plus, she dishes on haunted hotels, Burning Man adventures, and the secrets behind her thriving business empire. This episode is packed with valuable insights, jaw-dropping stories, and plenty of laughs. Don't miss out! Tune in now, and get ready to be inspired. 💬 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 📺🎙️ Watch now and join the conversation! 🗣️✨ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Cosmo's Therasage Red Light Therapy 05:08 - Therasage Ozone Therapy Benefits 05:43 - Therasage H2O Go Features 06:05 - The Solution for Wellness 10:00 - How EMF Affects Your Body 12:10 - Co-Founders Save Cosmo’s Business 14:58 - Bias in Today’s News 16:08 - Cosmo’s Emotional Journey to Success 17:50 - Growing Up with a Mobster Father 22:14 - The Exorcist Influence 24:30 - The Cecil Hotel Mysteries 28:03 - Encounters with Ghosts 29:48 - Addiction as a Demonic Assignment 33:56 - Identifying Addictive Personalities 34:37 - Scorpio Loyalty Traits 35:21 - Insights on Your Mom's Influence 37:30 - Sex and Love Anonymous Support 38:30 - Understanding Food Addiction 42:58 - Relationship Status Inquiry 47:25 - The Queen of Melrose’s Retail Stores 49:24 - Cosmo Clothing Line at Area 15 49:47 - Burning Man Experience 51:35 - Music Video Productions 52:20 - The Queen of Melrose's Music Journey 52:48 - New Song "Italian Men" by The Queen of Melrose 52:57 - New Song "My [ __ ] is Killing Me" by The Queen of Melrose 53:52 - Where to Find The Queen of Melrose APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Queen of Melrose https://www.instagram.com/queenofmelrose/ SPONSORS: AIRES TECH: https://airestech.com/ THERASAGE: https://therasage.com/ GROUNDNEWS: https://ground.news/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ The views and opinions expressed by guests on Digital Social Hour are solely those of the individuals appearing on the podcast and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the host, Sean Kelly, or the Digital Social Hour team. While we encourage open and honest conversations, Sean Kelly is not legally responsible for any statements, claims, or opinions made by guests during the show. Listeners are encouraged to form their own opinions and consult professionals for advice where appropriate. Content on this podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, financial, or professional advice. #podcast #truecrime #helpforbusinesses #scarystories #storytime
Chapter 1: What wellness solutions does Cosmo discuss?
And he went against God. So basically with that little girl, it's like when she was possessed, Reagan, and it wasn't, it wasn't a demon. It was the devil himself that possessed her and he really fucked her up, right? And she was shoving crosses up her cunt and everything. I was eight years old when that movie came out.
All right, guys. Queen of Melrose in the building. Yes.
Finally got to meet you after all this time. We had a little cancellation for the fires. Now everything is copacetic. So glad to meet you. Has everything settled down for you? You're very tall. Yeah, 6'6". And you got good hair. Do I? Yeah. Good hair don't care. Is that a perm or is it natural? Natural. Wow. Yeah. So what's your ethnicity, if you don't mind? Half Chinese, half Irish.
And half Puerto Rican. I wish. I love it. That hair is everything. Oh my God, good hair.
Afros are hard to pull off these days.
Yeah. So I want you to do maybe one of my runway shows.
I'm down.
You know?
I'd have to check out the vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll let you know ahead of time. You won't put me in anything crazy though, right?
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Chapter 2: How did Cosmo overcome addiction?
Like, what are you pulling down, girl? You're nude.
Yeah. Hilarious. I'm sure you've seen all sorts of outfits. All of it. Yeah. Nothing surprises you.
Wax on, wax off. Yeah.
I don't even know what that means.
28.
Oh yeah. You look good for your age. You're still a baby. Thank you. I would buy you a drink for sure. And give you a lap dance. But anyway, back to the interview. Yeah. What were we saying?
Karate Kid.
Oh yeah. Wax on. Wax off.
Yes. Yes.
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Chapter 3: What experiences does Cosmo share about haunted hotels?
Thank you.
I'm surprised you're asking me.
You got some big clients, man. No, I do have. And I just started like last year, but you know what? And I'm very, very grateful. But the whole thing was just to get out there. I went on software underbelly.
Yeah.
Okay. And then my friend, like you need to go on software underbelly. And he's my sponsor in the AA program. So he goes, he's talking about Cosmo, Cosmo, Cosmo. So the guy, Mark, that does Soft White Underbelly, he says, well, I want to meet this Cosmo. So he called me and he goes, would you like to do my show? And I'm like, yeah.
And then I saw why, because my sponsor, he was saying Cosmo got me sober. I work for Cosmo. He taught me everything I knew in the schmata business. I've been on Melrose 30 years. So I didn't even see the interview. So long story short, I go on the interview and I'm talking about my, he goes, well, what happened? And usually everybody he interviews on that show is kind of like doom and gloom.
There's no recovery there. There's no sobriety. You know what I mean? It's usually just dark. So that's how my life was. It was very dark. But then I cut to the solution. Like a queen like me, it's possible to get sober. You know, I was in the bushes. I was downtown LA. I was smoking crack in the Cecil Hotel. You know what I mean? I was doing all those things. And basically, I came back from...
you know, I came back from this drug addiction. Like basically I got sober, you know, and if I could do it, you could do it. You know what I mean? And it wasn't, It wasn't easy.
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Chapter 4: What viral moment changed Cosmo's life?
She's built like a Puerto Rican, as you could see from the Bronx. Yeah. Available. But anyway, I just thought, you know what I'm saying? She's like dynamo. So she's working on my store. And then since COVID and like all these things were happening on Melrose, the riots happened. Did you see on the news when they were burning down Melrose? Yeah. They were literally burning down all the stores.
So they didn't touch my stores, but people were getting shot in the daytime. It was really bad. It was very, very bad. So all my money customers, like for Burning Man, have you heard of Burning Man? I've never been. We got to go. We're going to go. We're going to go. I've heard good things. I'm going to dress you up. Yeah. Burning Man. Just wear a G-string.
It's all nude and fabulous. I want to go and do the full experience there. I would probably do a little psychedelics if I went there.
Yeah. Well, they have like the psychedelic camp. They have a sober camp. You got lap dances. You got whatever you want. Gay, straight, other. It's all there. Everybody gets along. There's not one fist fight. There's not one gang shooting. It's fabulous for like 15 years. So my business thrives off Burning Man because I get people like all over the world, like Michelle Rodriguez. I got Puff Daddy.
I got his whole camp coming in my store shopping for clothes for Burning Man because my clothes are very dramatic and everything is specifically made. You know, I designed 70% of it. Wow. But now I invite LA designers to come in that are very talented and I give them a check every two weeks and it helps, you know, The community, you know? So basically, but the store was doing really bad.
And then the Burning Man's after COVID just got kind of worse and worse and worse. Like people aren't showing up like they should. Yeah. So Eugene is like, you have to get on camera. She goes, because your personality and plus all this soft white underbelly and you just went viral in Madonna concert. And I'm like, girl, I'm 61 years old, girl. I got a belly now, girl.
I might even have on the DL a yeast infection, okay? Damn. Girl, all those things. I'm like, I don't want to get on camera. I didn't want to get on camera. She goes, you will, you got to save your store. She goes, your personality will save, right? So anyway, I got on camera and we started doing little blogs every day.
And then we started doing podcasts and we started doing, and then before you know it, I'm going to cry. What the fuck? I got my period. Anyway, people started coming to the store. You know, and I had it for 30 years and I thought I was going to go to Palm Springs and retire. Why am I crying, bitch? Give me some Kleenex. Give me some Vagisil. Give me something.
You guys have this special bond together.
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Chapter 5: How does Cosmo's upbringing influence her career?
Oh my God. You know? So we would have Bible study and my father would be like, They'd be like, you can't be gay. You can't touch yourself. You know, it's like your homosexuality is off the list, Cosmo. And here I am, 70 years old. I'm like, well, the Bible also says the truth shall set you free. And I'm gay. And that's it, you know? So then my father's like, what am I going to do with this kid?
You know what I mean? And he didn't want to buy me the Barbie doll. But then he wound up buying me the Barbie doll instead of G.I. Joe. Long story short, I became a hairdresser. I became very successful him letting me do what I wanted to do. And then he passed away 10 years ago with my mom, you know, cause they couldn't live without each other. Same year. He went. Two years later, she went. Wow.
Yeah. They were just like together since they were 15. There was always love in my family. You know, we were always eight at five o'clock. Basically, yes, there were FBI agents in my house, like good fellas. They were in the yard. They would follow my father to school when he drove us. You know, basically very exciting.
You know, like some days my mother had main coats and we had best cars and we're eating filet mignon, you know? And then, you know, and then there's, as a mob guy, there was some weeks where she had to go get food stamps. Wow. We had to hide the TV because in those days... You know, GR, welfare. Welfare. You go get help. Like if you're low income. Yeah. But they would come to your house.
So if you had a TV, a colored TV or a nice car, they would cut your welfare. So we had to hide everything, the gold chains and shit. You know what I mean? So that's how I grew up.
And it was normal. That's crazy. It was normal. Well, the fact your dad made it that long in that lifestyle is impressive. Yeah. Most of those guys don't make it the full way.
No, what would happen was after the FBI was chasing him because there was the Lufthansa heist. You see Goodfellas? Yeah. When they robbed the plane, they got all the money. They tried to implicate my father in that. So he was going to court and he thought he was going to go away for a very long time. And then the judge let my father go, found out that he wasn't implicated on it.
Then he came out here. Did you hear my song, Move to LA? Oh, yeah. Yeah, so there's a whole thing, Move to LA. It's the meme from Soft White Underbelly. And I tell my story. So anyway, my father got a job at the Palm Restaurant out here. And he's serving like, so no more mob. He's like, fuck that. So then we all came out here one by one. There's four of us. I have a twin brother who's straight.
He's the boy. I'm the girl. And then I have an older brother and I have my sister, Sophia, who's gorgeous, you know, and was still very close. Long story short, my father had to get away from the mob, moved out here. My uncle worked in the Palm restaurant. He was a Jehovah's witness.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Cosmo have about the fashion industry?
Yeah. Cause it was so good. And you know what? It's like when it deals with the unknown and the supernatural and demons, like I believe that shit's true. Oh yeah. And I learned like growing on all these fucking Bible studies that not only there's a God, but there is a devil and it was God's angel and he went against God. Yeah.
So basically when that little girl, it's like when she was possessed Reagan and it wasn't, It wasn't a demon. It was the devil himself that possessed her, and he really fucked her up, right? Yeah. And she was shoving crosses up her cunt and everything. I was eight years old when that movie came out. So my father and mother said, don't take Cosmo to my aunt to that movie.
It's going to fuck him up. You know, because they knew I was like really, you know, and I was like empath. Like I would absorb everything like a sponge as a kid. So anyway, saw The Exorcist, didn't sleep for a year. Okay. I think my mother beat my aunt up for taking me. But the best movie ever. Yeah.
Like you could have Freddy Krueger, you could have anything, but that movie is the most horrifying movie I've ever seen. I've ever seen. I agree. It's one of the scariest I've ever seen too. And there was no CGI. There was all, it was all real. Like they made that all by hands. Like it was all, yeah. There was no like AI, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like they really just did.
You got to see there's a, there's a documentary on the making of that movie. Okay. And how fire started. And it was like, all this shit happened. All this demonic shit happened when they were making the book.
No way. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I believe all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a haunted museum in Vegas that I go to. Zach Bagan's haunted museum. Oh, really? Yeah. There's a... Yeah, it's scary.
I got to check it out. Should I ever go to the Cecil Hotel? No. Is that haunted? Oh, my God. We have to hang out. I promise I'll be good. Well, maybe a little creepy. Is that haunted? But good. So there's a Cecil Hotel downtown. Do you remember when the girl came from Canada to go visit?
Canada?
When was this? This was like 10 years ago.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of Burning Man in Cosmo's life?
So basically, they made one side of the building like all homeless guys that lived there since the war. But then they tried to make the new one gentrified and like really cool, but there was only one elevator. So all the tourists that come to stay there will go to the elevator, like with these homeless people, you know what I mean? That lived there for years, right?
So basically, long story short, this girl came from Canada and she's in the Cecil Hotel, Asian girl. She came here to visit LA. And all of a sudden she's missing. So a month goes by, month and a half goes by. So people are in the Cecil Hotel and they're complaining about the water, that it tastes like shit. It tastes like feces. So they did a little investigation.
So they had the water tank on top of the Cecil. It's very haunted. When you pass by now, I'm going to tell you the story. They have it on Netflix too, Cecil Hotel. So- There's the ward of that of the building on the roof. And it has 700 rooms, that building. So the janitor went up to the ward of that and said, why does the warder smell the pigeons shitting in the water?
They found her body in the ward of that. Then you'll see her, if you watch Netflix, we're going to have a movie night, you and Eugenia. I got a theater at the crib. Is that cool? Yeah. Oh, whoa. I would love that. I love movies. Nice little love sack. And creepy. Love shack and the love shack. Okay, we could just like cuddle a little bit. I'll behave.
little bit so anyway they found her in the water that then they played back the tapes of how is she missing so literally she's running from there's nobody chasing her but she's running from a spirit and you see her in the elevator and she's like scared like running from the but there's nobody there it's just a fucking evil spirit whoa so this hotel we found out that Richard Ramirez the serial killer lived there damn
The guy, all these murderers lived there all these years and it was very suicidal people jumping out the windows years ago. So now it's haunted. Now this girl, so they finally closed it down after they found her. But my friend was staying in that hotel and she was drinking the water. Yes. And I would go in there and party because it's downtown LA, right? So that's where I got my drugs.
So I would party there, but horrific, the Cecil Hotel. And now it's closed, but you can actually, there's a guy that crossed the street that's been doing a podcast that lives across the street and you could see shadows at night. It's great. Yeah. It's still very haunted. I'm surprised you don't know about this, but you know, mother's here and school is open, baby.
But yeah, horrific, horrific, horrific. Yeah, it's nuts. So watch that documentary. I will. Have you ever seen a ghost before? You know, I do believe. Do you believe? Yeah, 100%. I do. I remember I grew up in Harlem and I grew up in a brownstone that's built in like the 1600s in New York City. And my grandmother lived there. I'll never forget. She paid like $39 rent when I was a kid. Wow.
And it was three floors, brownstone. It was beautiful. It was all marble. Those buildings are gorgeous in New York. Now they sell for millions and millions. But I remember there was a ghost. My grandfather would say there's a ghost. He was an alcoholic, but he lived on the third floor. the third level was his bedroom. Yeah.
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Chapter 8: How does Cosmo view ageism in her career?
I do too. Yeah. I think they can answer your dreams too. Yeah. And the supernatural, like all this demonic shit. So sure. We've seen some demons in LA. Well, you know, Los Angeles, right? Yeah. Los Angeles. Hmm. Wow, I never thought of it that way. And downtown LA, you know, I would hang out with these people and they would be like, look, there's a shapeshifter over there.
This guy's got six fingers, you know? And you're all high and shit. You're like, you don't know what's live or what's, you know what I mean? You don't know what's really happening. But yes, it's very icy demonic. I see it now on the streets when people are like contorted and they're doing drugs. It's not only the drugs. I think that drug addiction is a demonic assignment.
They say you're more vulnerable when you're in that state of mind, you know, to position.
Yeah.
Yeah. As a matter of fact, I have a sponsor, you know, her name is Ansley, you know, and she's like Christian and she got me sober because she's so empathic and she's also a life coach and she does exorcisms. Damn. So anyway, I have a friend that, um, he wouldn't get sober. He couldn't get sober like me, but he was on crystal meth and crystals hard to kick.
It's worse than crack because crack is like kind of natural. So three days it's out of your system. Crystal is all chemicals and it's all manmade. So that stays in your system for a very long time. That makes sense. So the detox is longer. and I'm trying to get my friend sober and he's talented and he's older like me. And I'm like, girl, it's time. You're going to get a heart attack.
You know what I mean? Like, please get sober. So I took him to my spouse and you got to meet my sponsor. So she put him in the chair and she's literally praying over him. And she's, she talks in tongues too. Really like effective too. She got me sober. So, you know, I, I knew the fucking exorcism. So anyway, he's in the chair. I got to see things to believe them, though.
I really got to see for me to believe. You know what I mean? Yeah. So she's literally talking in tongues and praying over him. But I see her talking to the spirit. She's going, she's literally like fist fighting the spirit, like with her eyes closed. And I'm like, oh my God, like this is really happening in my fucking living room. You know, I believe that she's powerful, you know, and anointed.
And then all of a sudden I see him. And this is me sober, stone cold sober, maybe on a cup of coffee and a cigarette. And I'm looking at him and he turns, literally turns black. I literally see the demon like leave his body. I should have filmed it. I was like, I should have fucking filmed it. And she's fucking fist fighting the demon. Get away. She'll be like talking in tongues or whatever.
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