Living with HIV has been a difficult road for Billy Porter. On Wednesday, the “Pose” star appeared on “The Tamron Hall Show” to talk on TV for the first time about his revelation that he had tested positive for the virus 14 years ago. “2007 we’ll start there, the backstory… was one of the worst years of my life.
I say I was on the precipice of obscurity and wasn’t working a lot in show business. February of that year, I was diagnosed with diabetes.
Type two, hereditary, it’s in my family,” Porter recalled. “By March I was filing bankruptcy papers and by June of that year, 2007, I was diagnosed HIV-positive.” RELATED: Billy Porter Reveals He’s HIV-Positive In ‘THR’ Cover Story: ‘There’s No More Stigma’ Sharing how he came to be diagnosed,
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