AVN legal editor Mark Kernes met with Marc Wallice yesterday afternoon. Kernes and Wallice talked for more than an hour. Wallice denies ever knowing or suspecting that he was HIV positive until he saw the results of his April DNA test. Wallice, to this day, is not convinced that he's necessarily "Patient Zero" for any of the other HIV cases that were discovered in the industry in the spring of 1998.
Contrary to earlier reports Wallice says that he wasn't forced to take the DNA test. The reason he hadn't taken one earlier, according to him, was that we was busy on current projects and didn't have the time. He would have gone for a test prior to shooting his next volume of Tails of Perversity, he claims.
However, documents exist showing that Wallice allegedly took ELISA tests on both March 5, 1998 and March 25, 1998. [ELISA tests taking the same amount of time as DNA tests.] Wallice has no explanation as to why the address on both of his March ELISA tests reflects an address for NEVHC [Northeast Valley Health Corporation] that had not been correct for nearly a year. Wallice has promised to contact NEVHC director Mark Henrickson to arrange for the official copy of his HIV test results to be made available to Wallice, Kernes and possibly Wallice's attorney whom he would not name. Wallice has threatened to sue each and every person whom he believes has spread "lies or misinformation" about this HIV test controversy.
