1980. Following the film's broadcast in the United States in 1980 Wiles was interviewed on Good Morning America and The Mike Douglas Show. Recent years After Wiles received financial compensation for his birth defects, he and his adoptive parents emigrated to New Zealand. Later, in 1986 at a conference for disabled children, Wiles met Robyn (born 1960), a married nurse who left her husband in June 1988 to be with him. The couple faced a great deal of opposition from both families; Wiles' parents believed that Robyn was only interested in his money, the financial payout that he had received from the thalidomide manufacturers (Distillers Company). However, despite this opposition the couple married on 13 October 1990 at their two-bedroom villa-style home in Hamilton in New Zealand. There were 25 guests - Terry's mother Hazel didn't attend but his father Len did. After the marriage Len and Hazel Wiles severed all contact with the couple and moved back to England in 1993. Terry heard of the death of his adoptive father in 1995 through the Thalidomide Society. He never heard from Hazel Wiles again; she died in Cambridgeshire in 2013. Terry and his wife continue to live in New Zealand, where Terry counselled others with disabilities. In 1997, Channel 4 filmed Terry and Robyn in New Zealand for a documentary entitled Fight For Love, in which they discussed how they met, and how they had to fight their families and the views of society in order to be together. References External links Terry Wiles: Man's Estate - a BBC East documentary from 1980 profiling the life of thalidomide sufferer Terry Wiles - East Anglian Film Archive The British Film Institute entry for Terry Wiles Terry Wiles on the Internet Movie Database Website about 'On Giants's Shoulders' the 1979 film of the life of Terry Wiles A website about the life of Terry Wiles BBC 'Play of the Week' entry for 'On Giant's Shoulders' (1979) 'Time Magazine' review of 'On Giant's Shoulders' 'Leonard Wiles Is a Saint in the Workshop for Adopted Son Terry and Other Victims of Thalidomide' - article on people.com 17 March 1980 1962 births Living people New Zealand people of English descent English people with disabilities New Zealand people with disabilities People with phocomelia English people of African-American descent New Zealand people of African-American descent