Big Brother winner, Dick Donato, opened up about his HIV status to People recently. He was diagnosed in 2011 while on Season 13, which saw former housemates returning.
“They told me that something was wrong with my blood test. They had done two HIV tests. One had come back positive and the other had come back negative. When they told me [I was positive] I just went numb. They had a car take me from CBS to my mother’s house. She was the first person I told.”
Donato’s viral load is undetectable, but he says the stigma around the virus is still hard to deal with;
“People are going to make assumptions about how I got it, and that’s okay. People are afraid to come forward because they’re afraid of the stigma of HIV. I’m not gay and I’ve never stuck a needle in my arm, but at this point, it doesn’t matter. We create a stigma around the disease that makes it hard for people to publicly say they have it.”
(via New Now Next)
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