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She is her father's daughter. Rain Pryor came to Connecticut to talk about growing up with the late comedian Richard Pryor. She did it to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis.

by News Channel 8's Jocelyn Maminta
His humor was raw and real, but Richard Pryor's fight against Multiple Sclerosis took him away from the spotlight.

"My mission really is to raise awareness about living with someone who had Multiple Sclerosis," Rain said.

Rain is the middle child of the comic's seven children. Richard Pryor died last December, but she draws strength in knowing there's a sense of purpose.

"I asked him, I said do you want me to still go out there and talk, and he said yes. My dad was always about truth."

And the truth rain says is her father was a loving and generous man.

"You see, like, oh, the drugs, the alcohol and the comedy, the women, because there were lots of them (laughs), but what you don't see is there's a real person underneath that. There was a loving father. He wasn't a great dad, but he was the only dad we had. We love him anyway regardless of his flaws."

Now she's crisscrossing the country to raise money for research and a cure for MS.

"If we can't find a cure right now at least create some sort of medication and treatment for people who have progressive forms of MS like my father."

Rain Pryor is herself an accomplished performer. She was in New Haven Friday as the keynote speaker at a national Multiple Sclerosis Society luncheon.

She is writing a book about her father. Look for that sometime in the fall.
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