Pose star Billy Porter has revealed that he has been living with HIV for 14 years. The 51-year-old said he kept the diagnosis a secret because he believed it would affect his career and revealed he didn't even tell his mother until recently because he was "ashamed".
In a candid essay published in for The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, Billy explained that he used his HIV-positive character Pray Tell in the FX drama Pose as a "surrogate" to "say everything I wanted to say".The award-winning actor discussed the beginnings of his diagnosis, writing: "It was 2007, the worst year of my life.
By February, I had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. By March, I signed bankruptcy papers. And by June, I was diagnosed HIV-positive.
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