TELEVISION - July 22, 1992

Annette’s Story: Making her first television appearance since she announced she has multiple sclerosis, Annette Funicello says tonight on “Entertainment Tonight” that “I don’t want any pity . . . that was a big fear of mine. I didn’t want people to be upset over what has happened to me.” Funicello tells interviewer Mary Hart that “everyone feels Annette has grown up in Disneyland . . . she has this wonderful fairy-tale life and nothing bad is supposed to happen to Annette.” Funicello says she is “fine from the waist up,” but when she walks, “my balance is off to the point where if I don’t have my cane, people think I’m drunk. That hurt me so badly.” The program airs at 7 p.m. on Channel 4.