Ray Porter Jr.

Magic Johnson says telling his wife he had HIV was the hardest thing he ever did, and when he told her he understood if she wanted to leave, Cookie said they would beat it together “But it’s going to kill me for the next week or two to just worry about whether Cookie is healthy or not and the baby. And it did, man. It drove me absolutely crazy.” “Going home from the doctor’s office to our home now to tell her that I have HIV was the hardest thing I ever had to do, not knowing what she was going to do, her reaction.” “And sure enough, I got home and told her. I said, ‘I can understand if you want to leave, I get it.’” “She hit me so hard upside my head. And she said, ‘You know what? We’re gonna beat this together.’ And that’s when I knew I was gonna be here for a long time.”