‘I’ve got something to tell you.’ And I said, ‘What is it?’ And he came right out and said it. And I was devastated.”
“The scariest part for me was not knowing if I had it,” Cookie said at an awards dinner for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
“Then that week I found out I was pregnant, so I didn’t know if my baby had it…
back then you had to wait at least 10 days to find out what your results were, so that was traumatic.”
Both her and her son, Earvin III, tested negative. His announcement is viewed by some as a turning point in how Americans viewed a virus which some said was only a ‘gay disease.’
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“I’ve never felt angry at him, because it wasn’t like he knew anything, it wasn’t like it happened while we were married,” she said calmly. “I was just scared for both of us. And I dealt with it, and still deal with it, spiritually. I’ve gotten deeper into my religion. I just turned it over to the Lord and put it in His hands and that’s how we dealt with it. I’m going to let Him take care of it, and we pray for Earvin’s healing and we go on and live our days, from day to day.”
“If I had kept going [that way] and the kids left, we would probably be divorced,” the NBA legend added. “Now we’re so connected to each other, but it took that situation to bring us back. I’ve always told Cookie…,
