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Billy Porter Says He Feels 'Free' After Revealing He's HIV-Positive

28.05.2021 - 17:55

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Billy Porter has been full of joy since revealing that he's HIV-positive. The 51-year-old star appeared on Thursday's episode of , just days after he shared that he was diagnosed as HIV-positive 14 years ago.«I've been positive since 2007.

Having lived through the AIDS crisis, it was heavy for me. It was a heavy year, 2007,» he said. «I lived with the shame of it for a really long time.

Last week I released that shame, I released that trauma, and I am a free man. Free. Free.»«I've never felt joy like this before,» Porter continued. «We talk about it in the Black church, [how] this joy that I have, the world didn't give it and the world can't take it away.

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