Top Celebs Who Have Lost Loved Ones To HIV

The singer revealed to Drum magazine recently that his current album, Naninina, has helped him heal from his tumultuous past of drugs and losing his parents. He revealed to the magazine that when his mother passed away, he was often ashamed to divulge that she had indeed died of HIV. He said: “At some point, I used to lie to people and say my mother died of cancer because I was afraid to say my mother had HIV,” he told the local publication. “I was too scared to say I once took drugs to numb pain.”

The former Rhythm City actress revealed her mother died from the condition in 2005 while awaiting ARVs the health department had run out of at the time. 

 revealed last year that he was HIV positive and had paid an amount totalling millions of dollars to prevent the news from being leaked as he had been diagnosed four years prior to revealing his status. Speaking to NBC, the actor said one woman whom he had paid for sex had taken a photo of his HIV medication in his bathroom and said she would leak it to the press if he didn’t pay up.

In 1991, after being diagnosed at 32, Johnson was one of the first celebrities to disclose his HIV status to the world. At 57, he’s been an example that it’s possible through correct medication to maintain a long-lasting healthy life with the disease. 

The late 3Sum singer, who passed away earlier this year at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town after losing his battle with cancer, In 2011, Koyo disclosed his HIV-positive status to the country. 

Source:https://www.news24.com/amp/truelove/archive/celebs-whove-been-affected-by-hiv-20170728

https://www.thebody.com/health/hiv-positive-celebrities

https://www.healthline.com/health/celebrities-with-hiv

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