Nightline (ABC) - 1996-03-15

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[0:00] Matt Safhino back down at Kills. Hello

[0:02] again, Matt.

[0:03] >> Hey, Steve. I think the uh the coast is

[0:04] clear. I don't have anybody sneaking up

[0:06] on me right now, so I'm pretty happy

[0:08] about that. Things have settled down a

[0:09] little bit. Let's check our forecast one

[0:11] last time. And of course, I'm down at

[0:13] Kels where the big Irish celebrations

[0:14] going on all weekend long. Tomorrow will

[0:16] be beautiful day. Sunshine all day long

[0:18] with a high of about 60°. And Sunday

[0:21] looks about the same. We're going to get

[0:22] up to about 62 on Sunday. We'll stay dry

[0:26] on Monday and Tuesday and then look for

[0:28] some wet weather to return as we get

[0:30] into Wednesday. But in the meantime, uh

[0:33] this is the place for the Irish

[0:34] celebration. There's been lots happening

[0:36] down here, as you know, and it's going

[0:38] to be going on all night long. We have

[0:40] one band on one stage over that way.

[0:41] We've got another band on another stage.

[0:43] It's going to start up here in a little

[0:45] while just behind me over there. And

[0:46] then, of course, all day long they'll

[0:48] have things going on out on the street,

[0:50] a petting zoo, Irish wolf hounds, a

[0:52] soccer deal, all kinds of fun stuff for

[0:53] the family during the day tomorrow. And

[0:55] on Sunday, Steve, back to you,

[0:56] >> Matt. I'll bet that couple on their

[0:57] first date there was probably very happy

[0:59] to see you.

[1:00] >> Yeah, I think so.

[1:02] >> Hey, enjoy it down there, Matt.

[1:03] >> Oh, yeah.

[1:04] >> Have a good weekend. Thank you very

[1:05] much, folks, for joining us as well.

[1:06] Enjoy the St. Patrick's weekend. Enjoy

[1:08] that weather out there as well. Thanks

[1:10] for watching. Good night.

[1:23] Thanks for watching Channel 2 News, the

[1:26] Northwest news leader. Tomorrow, join

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[1:34] >> Night line Friday night special.

[1:37] >> She's the height of fashion.

[1:39] >> That's like $15,000 a month. My mother

[1:42] >> and she talks trash. Yes, I am telling

[1:45] you that men still want to have sex with

[1:47] me and they knew my HIV status.

[1:51] >> But she's dying.

[1:53] >> Why should I surrender to AIDS?

[1:56] If I do absolutely not another thing, it

[2:01] will still take my life. You keep

[2:03] yourself safe and okay. You hear me?

[2:05] >> And she's trying to save others from

[2:08] making her mistakes. And what I really

[2:10] want

[2:13] more than anything in the world

[2:17] is for you to not get AIDS.

[2:20] >> TONIGHT,

[2:21] >> USE A CONDOM.

[2:24] >> Ray's story.

[2:34] This is ABC News Night Line reporting

[2:37] from Washington. Ted CPP.

[2:41] >> Ray Lewis Thornton knows what kind of a

[2:44] first impression she makes. She is not

[2:46] just young and beautiful. She's tough

[2:48] and intelligent and sexy. At an award

[2:52] ceremony some time back. She addressed

[2:54] that issue head on. All night long. She

[2:57] said, "Men have been making passes at me

[2:59] at the dinner table and slipping me

[3:00] their phone numbers without realizing

[3:03] that I have AIDS." She is at times a

[3:06] walking contradiction, someone who uses

[3:09] her own attractiveness, her own

[3:11] intelligence, her own success, as a

[3:14] sucker punch to seize attention, to

[3:16] force her audiences to confront the

[3:18] ugliness of the disease that is killing

[3:21] her. Ray Lewis Thornton was national

[3:24] deputy youth director for Jesse

[3:26] Jackson's presidential campaign in 1984.

[3:30] Then she became national youth director

[3:32] in 88. She later worked on Carol Mosley

[3:36] Brun's successful senatorial campaign.

[3:38] Lately she has been running another sort

[3:41] of campaign. She talks to young people

[3:44] about the dangers of sex without

[3:46] condoms, about the particular dangers

[3:48] confronting the African-American

[3:50] community. She uses herself as an object

[3:53] lesson. For almost four months now,

[3:56] correspondent Michelle Norris and

[3:58] producer James Blue have been following

[4:01] this woman whose own time is running

[4:04] out.

[4:06] >> You will be free

[4:08] or you will die. That is really it. When

[4:12] it comes to age, I'm a walking miracle.

[4:16] If I live 3 years, I can handle death.

[4:21] That's easy. It's the loss of who I am

[4:27] that scares me.

[4:28] >> You come here, little baby. What you

[4:30] crying about now? You stop this.

[4:32] >> Ray Lewis Thornton deals with dying by

[4:35] trying to prevent others from making the

[4:37] same mistakes.

[4:38] >> What I'm asking you is, are you

[4:40] miscalculating like we did? Summari and

[4:44] and and MEDICAL DEGREES DIDN'T KEEP US

[4:47] SAFE.

[4:49] You got to keep your own self safe

[4:53] and okay.

[4:55] >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

[4:58] >> Ray has mounted a onewoman anti- AIDS

[5:00] campaign to reach those who don't see

[5:03] themselves at risk.

[5:07] >> And with HIV and AIDS spreading at a

[5:09] disproportionately high rate in the

[5:11] African-American community, Ry is a

[5:14] wakeup call. I have 14-day yeast

[5:17] infections and 21-day menstrual cycles.

[5:20] That prohibits a sex life. And look, let

[5:22] me tell you, half of the time I can't

[5:24] hold my legs up for 10 minutes to have

[5:25] sex with my husband.

[5:27] >> Not exactly the kind of language you

[5:29] expect to hear in a high school

[5:31] auditorium. But Rey explains that she

[5:33] talks trash because that's most

[5:36] effective.

[5:37] >> People need to hear the crudeness of

[5:39] AIDS. And that's one of the reasons why

[5:42] I'm so graphic because I don't want

[5:44] people to walk away from that saying,

[5:46] "Oh, she's a fabulous person. Oh, if

[5:49] this is what AIDS is like, then I don't

[5:51] care." I want people walking away

[5:54] saying, "I don't ever want to get AIDS.

[5:56] I don't ever want to experience what

[5:58] she's experiences. I can't afford to

[6:02] lose any more weight." And it's weird

[6:05] because people think I look great. Yeah.

[6:06] Don't y'all think I look great?

[6:11] She does look great with the perfectly

[6:13] quafted hair and the fierce designer

[6:15] suits, but it's really just a mask. I

[6:19] really do wish at some levels that I

[6:22] could show you my pain.

[6:25] But I can't.

[6:30] and the suits and the shoes and all of

[6:33] that. All the trimmings

[6:38] cannot save my life.

[6:44] >> It's a good thing I have good veins.

[6:45] >> I'm glad. But you know what?

[6:48] >> Ray's te-c cell count, which measures

[6:50] the progression of the disease, is nine

[6:53] compared to a normal range between 1,00

[6:55] and,500.

[6:57] >> I hate this. Me, too.

[7:02] hurts.

[7:03] >> AIDS has shrunk her frame from a buxom

[7:06] size 12 to a spelt size 4. She clearly

[7:09] enjoys looking like a fashion model, but

[7:12] she knows the cost.

[7:14] >> It's a constant reminder that I'm dying.

[7:17] It's a constant reminder that no matter

[7:20] how hard I fight this disease, it is in

[7:23] control of my body.

[7:26] True.

[7:27] >> 10 years ago, Ry was diagnosed HIV

[7:30] positive after donating blood. At the

[7:33] time, she had a promising career in

[7:35] politics, having worked on both of Jesse

[7:38] Jackson's presidential campaigns.

[7:40] >> I kept it a secret for seven years, and

[7:43] three years ago, I was diagnosed with

[7:47] fullblown AIDS.

[7:50] At that point, she sunk into a deep

[7:52] depression until a friend urged her to

[7:55] go public with her plight.

[7:56] >> I want as many people as I possibly can

[7:59] to hear my message, to feel my pain, and

[8:01] to know what it's like to live with

[8:03] AIDS.

[8:04] >> She described what it's like in a cover

[8:06] story for Essence, a magazine for black

[8:09] women, and later on television, winning

[8:11] an Emmy for her first person reports on

[8:14] a Chicago TV station. that seeing images

[8:17] that look like them of people with AIDS,

[8:20] me being here is a part of that process

[8:22] of them believing the sound bite that

[8:25] anybody can get it.

[8:26] >> Everybody thinks, well, I'm too young or

[8:29] well, I know it's not going to happen to

[8:31] me, but it's like they're all ignorant.

[8:33] Everybody's ignorant in their own way

[8:36] >> or uninformed. These Chicago area high

[8:39] school students said teens underestimate

[8:41] the danger of AIDS. I don't think of

[8:44] myself contracting AIDS because I don't

[8:46] see myself being sexually active with

[8:49] different people. I don't not a drug

[8:50] user, you know, or nothing of that sort.

[8:52] And I I guess I assume that I won't get

[8:53] the disease. I have a lot of friends,

[8:55] female friends, and I know some of them

[8:58] would tell me they don't like to use

[8:59] condom. The majority of them do tell me

[9:01] they don't like to use condom. I know me

[9:03] why they don't. They say it doesn't feel

[9:05] right.

[9:07] Kenny and I do have sex and we use a

[9:10] latex condom 100% of the time. We use a

[9:13] spermocidal cream with noxinolon 9 to

[9:15] give us extra protection.

[9:17] >> Ray shatters some of the stereotypes

[9:19] about AIDS. Living proof that the

[9:22] epidemic is no longer confined to

[9:24] intravenous drug users or to gay men.

[9:28] >> I challenge you.

[9:32] I challenge you to save yourself.

[9:37] Thank you.

[9:42] >> A lot of people tell you what you should

[9:43] do, you know, like like tell you instead

[9:45] of she's saying, "I can't tell you. I

[9:47] just can just tell you what happened to

[9:48] me and then you learn from me. You got

[9:50] to do it yourself." You know, she just

[9:51] started recently talking. She said last

[9:53] few years. So, I thought I was like

[9:54] really impressed. Wow.

[9:56] >> I partially made up my mind when I was

[9:57] here, but when I heard her, that was the

[9:59] bomb. And it was like, you're I'm

[10:02] staying a virgin. That's it.

[10:04] >> Mission accomplished. Knowing that she

[10:06] can help change lives helps Rey cope

[10:09] with AIDS.

[10:12] >> Sometimes there's so much pain

[10:15] that it could become so overwhelming.

[10:20] And I think that the pain could kill me

[10:22] before AIDS. And so I have to um keep

[10:28] some of the pain at bay. And so I don't

[10:31] want someone to confuse

[10:33] my coping mechanisms

[10:36] >> with my uh lack of integrity

[10:41] and credibility and what I do. What I do

[10:45] is from my heart. You know, it's

[10:48] interesting. Remember two years ago I

[10:50] told you that by the time your freshman

[10:53] class graduate I'd probably be dead. I'm

[10:57] still kicking. So look at God. Hey,

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[13:40] When I wake up in the morning, they say,

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[13:51] But you know what? When I make it to the

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[14:00] Guess who won at this very moment?

[14:02] >> But it's a temporary triumph.

[14:04] Increasingly, AIDS is taking the upper

[14:06] hand.

[14:07] >> And I'm at that level where I just don't

[14:09] feel okay.

[14:10] >> My weight is bad. My appetite is bad.

[14:13] >> So, what are you doing?

[14:14] >> I'm trying. I am trying so hard to eat.

[14:16] >> No, it's like you have to just eat all

[14:18] the time.

[14:19] >> Try so hard to eat. And

[14:21] >> Ray's doctor, Marge Cohen, says the

[14:23] weight loss makes her more vulnerable.

[14:26] She has had some mild infections. Um

[14:30] she's had pneumonia and she's required

[14:34] um you know a lot of uh just support to

[14:38] try to maintain her immune system as

[14:40] best as it can.

[14:42] >> With no private health insurance, Ry is

[14:44] a patient at Cook County Hospital's

[14:46] Women and Children's HIV clinic. Like

[14:49] Ry, more than half of the women at the

[14:51] clinic were infected by the men in their

[14:54] lives. Boyfriends, husbands.

[14:57] >> Why me?

[14:58] >> I did what they told me to do. I never I

[15:01] was never out there. I never did

[15:02] anything.

[15:03] >> It's blind. It's Everybody can be

[15:05] infected. Everybody has got a chance to

[15:08] have it. You know, it's just like the

[15:09] lotteryies. Everybody's got a chance.

[15:12] >> A lot of times people don't want you to

[15:14] touch them. They don't want you to eat

[15:14] off their plates. They don't have to

[15:16] come out and just say it, but you could

[15:18] tell. You could tell by the way they

[15:20] hand you the paper plate and the and the

[15:22] plastic fork, you know, instead of the

[15:24] china. The doctor asked me when I went

[15:26] in, do you want to be tested because you

[15:28] lost 10 lbs? I'm like, well, sure, test

[15:31] me. And when the test came back, I was

[15:33] told that I had the um HIV. I'm like,

[15:36] why me?

[15:37] >> But then I also said, why not me?

[15:39] >> As Ry sees it, more women should be

[15:42] asking that question.

[15:43] >> Yeah. Look, none of my girlfriends see

[15:45] themselves at risk cuz they have sex

[15:48] with the right kind of men. I dated the

[15:51] best of men. You know, a Mercedes was

[15:54] required. Huh? $1,200 suit and a six

[15:59] figure income.

[16:02] But all that means is that somebody in a

[16:04] Mercedes and a $1,200 suit infected me.

[16:09] Get a girl some more. I really didn't

[16:11] think someone would want to be with me

[16:13] and marry me and love me and give me

[16:16] unconditional love, but it happened and

[16:19] I've accepted it in my life and I find

[16:22] great comfort and great joy in my

[16:25] husband.

[16:26] >> Aid it up. I'll come.

[16:28] >> Kenny Thornton, who is not infected,

[16:31] married Rey knowing that she had AIDS.

[16:34] >> Kenny's my rock now. When I wake up in

[16:37] the morning and I'm too tired to brush

[16:39] my teeth, Kenny runs my bath water.

[16:42] He washes my body if I need it. He dries

[16:46] me off and he gets me together.

[16:50] >> Still a newlywed, he is already bracing

[16:52] himself for life without Rey. I think

[16:55] it's a a dream deferred,

[16:59] a dream, something that I had always

[17:01] hoped for um

[17:04] from childhood when my brother and I

[17:06] would talk about

[17:09] one of our goals in life was to be

[17:11] happily married and have kids and that

[17:15] sort of a thing. And now that I am

[17:18] happily married, that is is going to be

[17:20] shortlived.

[17:23] >> It's weird.

[17:25] But I do I feel like I lose a part of me

[17:28] every day. I lose a part of me to this

[17:33] disease.

[17:35] And I hide it really well in public,

[17:39] but I'm slipping, baby. I mean, I'm

[17:42] slipping.

[17:43] >> Those closest to Ry encourage her to

[17:45] slow down, to rest more, but they

[17:48] understand why she cannot. The moment

[17:50] she slows down will be the moment that

[17:52] she gets really sick. She's saving

[17:55] people or at least she's out there and

[17:57] given the opportunity to save someone

[18:01] and that keeps her going and we can't

[18:03] take that away from her. It's not easy

[18:06] living with AIDS. It is hard. It is

[18:09] probably the most difficult thing I've

[18:11] had to do in my entire life. It is a

[18:13] battle. And there were many days when I

[18:15] wish I do not have AIDS. But I can't

[18:18] surrender everything I have to this

[18:20] disease. I can't give it up. I just

[18:23] can't say here take all of me. I cannot

[18:26] do that. I can't. I refuse.

[18:31] When we come back, a postcript on Ray

[18:34] Lewis Thornton. And I'll be joined by

[18:36] ABC's Michelle Norris in a moment.

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[21:28] Joining me now, ABC's Michelle Norris.

[21:31] You and I have sat together in the

[21:32] editing room a couple of times over the

[21:34] last few weeks looking at this video of

[21:37] Rey as you bring it in and it struck me

[21:39] and I told you that this is a woman who

[21:41] is very careful about never letting the

[21:44] mask slip and yet I gather that

[21:47] something has happened over the last few

[21:49] weeks that has caused a change.

[21:52] >> Indeed, it's important that she project

[21:55] this image of strength. She has

[21:57] surrounded herself with the emotional

[21:59] equivalent of hot boiling oil because

[22:01] she doesn't want people to know how sick

[22:04] she is, how vulnerable she is, and she

[22:06] maintains this hectic breakneck schedule

[22:09] uh to to try to keep ahead of the

[22:11] disease. But recently, that schedule

[22:13] caught up with her. She returned from a

[22:15] speaking engagement in Iowa, and her

[22:17] health took a turn for the worst.

[22:23] >> What kind of juice you want? Orange.

[22:25] >> Yeah.

[22:27] I'm going to try to eat as much as I

[22:29] can, honey. I promise.

[22:31] >> I was getting enough oxygen,

[22:34] >> but the breathing was really bad. And it

[22:37] was extremely painful for me to uh

[22:41] breathe in to take a deep breath was

[22:43] painful to yarn was painful.

[22:47] >> I never

[22:51] has ever have ever been in a hospital.

[22:54] So, this is all new.

[22:56] >> The doctor gave me oxygen and he told

[22:59] me, "This is going to be more than a

[23:02] test. You're probably going to stay."

[23:04] And I um

[23:07] had the broncoscopy

[23:09] and they saw PCP on my lungs.

[23:13] >> PCP, pumocyus pneumonia, an extremely

[23:17] virulent form of pneumonia that severely

[23:19] impairs the body's respiratory system.

[23:22] >> Here we go. It is the leading cause of

[23:24] death for people with AIDS.

[23:27] >> This is the real stuff

[23:30] >> that AIDS is made out of. You know, in

[23:33] the hospital or IV, not being able to

[23:37] breathe.

[23:39] If I sort of thought I had AIDS, I'm

[23:41] real clear today that I have AIDS. And I

[23:45] think that

[23:47] it not only became clear for me,

[23:51] but a lot of other people in my life.

[23:54] >> Ray's doctors have arrested the

[23:56] infection. She is stable for now.

[23:59] >> Okay. Love you.

[24:02] >> And I don't think people really

[24:04] understand how hard it is.

[24:09] And God's given me a gift to be able to

[24:12] share it.

[24:14] in a way

[24:16] that it helps

[24:19] to change a life. And so

[24:24] they don't have to experience

[24:27] how hard it really is. And that drives

[24:30] me.

[24:32] Ted, she's now back on her feet,

[24:35] although she's taking things much slower

[24:37] now. and she's committed to getting back

[24:39] out there in front of the audiences and

[24:41] spreading that message because as we

[24:42] heard in the piece, that's really what

[24:44] keeps her going.

[24:46] >> The only person on whom she seems to

[24:48] acknowledge any kind of dependence at

[24:51] all right now is her husband. That

[24:54] relationship is quite an extraordinary

[24:56] relationship. He must be quite a

[24:57] remarkable man.

[24:58] >> No, he's amazing. He married Ry knowing

[25:01] that that she had AIDS. And this is one

[25:03] of those great love stories. I mean, you

[25:06] get that sense. These people that

[25:07] communicate without even talking. He

[25:10] knows what he's in for. And and we asked

[25:12] him, we asked him some tough questions.

[25:13] Are you really ready for this? Are you

[25:15] really ready when things get tough? And

[25:17] and he says he's committed. He's going

[25:19] to be there.

[25:20] >> When the time comes that her her really

[25:24] lovely appearance,

[25:26] begins to show some of the ravages of

[25:28] that disease, that's going to call for a

[25:31] different kind of courage. Is she ready

[25:32] for that? Well, she got a taste of that

[25:34] recently when she was in the hospital. I

[25:36] don't know that she's ready for that. I

[25:38] don't know that anyone is ready for

[25:40] that. And one of the tests for her is is

[25:42] whether she'll be able to open up her

[25:44] life at that point. I mean, right now

[25:46] she can stand in front of an audience

[25:48] and say, "You don't want this to happen

[25:50] to you." And it's a mixed message

[25:52] because people see this woman who looks

[25:54] so good. Will she be able to tr to still

[25:57] send that message from a hospital bed?

[25:59] Will she be able to stand up in front of

[26:01] that audience when she can't wear the

[26:03] high heels or when even when she applies

[26:05] the makeup, she doesn't look the way

[26:07] that we've seen her look in in in these

[26:08] spots this evening? That's going to be

[26:10] tough for her.

[26:11] >> In a sense, Michelle, she has changed

[26:13] the focus a little bit of our attention

[26:15] on AIDS. We have tended to look at the

[26:18] drug users, men, gays. She's focusing,

[26:24] yes, on all those groups, but largely on

[26:26] young women. Oh yes, she is focusing on

[26:29] women and she's trying to show women

[26:31] that they are vulnerable, particularly

[26:34] women who don't see themselves as being

[26:36] vulnerable because they're involved in

[26:38] monogous relationships. And we have to

[26:40] remember that that that's Rey's story.

[26:42] And she tries to tell women that even if

[26:45] they stick with one partner, even if

[26:47] they remain faithful to one man, unless

[26:49] they can absolutely 100% guarantee that

[26:54] that partner is being faithful to them,

[26:57] that they're not safe.

[26:58] >> And you have watched and have commented

[27:00] on, and of course, we have tonight seen

[27:03] the kind of empathy that there appears

[27:05] to be between her and some of these

[27:07] young people. a closing note on that for

[27:10] you.

[27:11] >> She reaches them in a way that that no

[27:15] television advertisement, no poster in

[27:18] the hallways of their school seems to

[27:20] reach them. She she grabs that audience.

[27:23] They they understand that they're

[27:25] hearing the real thing when she's up

[27:27] there.

[27:27] >> Michelle, thank you. I'll be back in a

[27:30] moment.

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