Watch a clip of "The Announcement" with Magic and Hydeia....
CNN) -- Hydeia Broadbent was 7 when she had her Magic moment. She was the tiny grade-schooler. He was one of the world's greatest basketball players. As she cried, Magic Johnson reached his giant right hand out and placed it on her shoulder. Neither knew what their futures held, but they had one thing in common bigger than both of them: They were HIV-positive. "I want people to know," Hydeia said, sniffling, "that we're just normal people." "Aww, you don't have to cry," Johnson replied, "because we are normal people. OK? We are." That scene was captured as part of a Nickelodeon AIDS special 20 years ago to inform America's youth that the disease could affect anyone.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Hydeia Broadbent remains AIDS activist 20 years after TV special with Magic Johnson Johnson says meeting her as a girl changed his life Both were recently reunited for debut of ESPN documentary Current generation doesn't "know reality of HIV/AIDS," Hydeia says
1991: Magic Johnson's HIV announcement On a recent March night in Los Angeles, Johnson again hugged Hydeia, his 6-foot-9 frame dwarfing her diminutive 4-foot-8 stature. Both were on hand for the screening in Los Angeles of "The Announcement," an ESPN documentary about his coming forward with HIV. Hydeia's tearful plea as a child is replayed in the documentary. Twenty years after their first encounter, both continue to be pivotal voices for those with HIV: he the superstar who tested HIV-positive after having unprotected s*x; she the innocent child infected with AIDS by a drug-using mom.
i thought this was about one of the 1000s of allNight girls, he met and bet on, before this inspirational americanHero and GIANT......
Saturday, May 19th 2012 at 11:44AM
powell robert
