Within the recreation of affection, Earvin “Magic” Johnson is aware of he gained massive together with his spouse, Cookie Johnson.
“She's my greatest pal moreover being my spouse,” Magic, 66, shared solely with Us Weekly on the HollyRod Foundation's 2025 DesignCare Gala on Saturday, October 4. “Cookie is a caretaker and she or he takes care of myself, our youngsters, our grandchildren and all of her pals. She's a girl of God, and it's a blessing.”
Magic and Cookie met as freshmen at Michigan State College within the late Seventies. The pair would later marry in September 1991.
“I've been along with her for 47 years and married for 34 years,” Magic mentioned. “We're enterprise companions. It's all the pieces rolled into one.”
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In September, Magic and Cookie, 66, celebrated their marriage ceremony anniversary with an intimate lunch on the Bel Air Resort with a few of their closest pals, together with Sugar Ray Leonard and actress Vanessa Calloway.
On the time, each events expressed gratitude for his or her love story that continues to develop yr after yr.
Magic Johnson and Cookie Johnson Courtesy of Magic Johnson/Instagram
“I really like how our love is authentically our personal, I get pleasure from each second collectively, and I wouldn't have it some other approach,” Cookie wrote through Instagram on September 14. “Right here's to our ceaselessly love!!”
Magic added, “An important celebration. Superior meals, superior presentation, and the surface patio was fabulous! It made our thirty fourth anniversary one thing to recollect!”
Earlier than supporting shut pals Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete's annual charity occasion — which raises funds to offer compassionate care to these dwelling with autism and Parkinson's illness — Cookie mirrored on the early days of her romance with Magic.
“For me, I feel I fell in love with the truth that Earvin is a gentleman. He was raised proper,” she informed Us at NYA EAST in Los Angeles. “Even after we had been in faculty, he opened doorways for you. He handled me nicely. He spoils me rotten. And that's one factor I've at all times admired about him.”
Magic Johnson and Cookie Johnson Courtesy of Magic Johnson/Instagram
She additionally respects her husband for being such a “onerous employee” and by no means believing in giving up.
“When any person knocks you down, he simply will get proper again up and he appears to be like ahead and figures it out from there,” Cookie gushed. “The remainder of us are nonetheless down there crying going, ‘Why did they try this? Why me?' And he's like, ‘It's completed. We're shifting ahead. Let's determine it out.'”
Whereas Magic and Cookie had been glad to gush about one another, they had been thrilled to reward Holly, 61, and Rodney, 59, for his or her philanthropic work with the HollyRod Basis.
Based in 1997, the nonprofit continues to advocate and assist the autism and Parkinson's communities.
“We're simply blessed to know them so nicely,” Magic mentioned to Us. “We simply love Holly and Rodney and what they stand for and what they've completed for the group, and we proceed to be blessed to know that they're our pals.”
Cookie added, “[Holly] doesn't simply increase cash, however she is on the market within the subject. She's determining issues. She's serving to to determine the place to place the cash. If you happen to see proper now what she's completed along with her son [RJ] and the way far he's come? It exhibits you the guts that they've and the onerous work that they put in.”
