Welsh legend Gareth Thomas announces HIV positive
“I am living with HIV; now you have that information that makes me extremely vulnerable, but it does not make me weak.”
He added that while he is being “forced” to announce his condition, he pledged to “fight to educate and break the stigma” surrounding the illness.
“I am asking you to help me to show that everyone lives in fear of people’s reactions and opinions… But that doesn’t mean we should have to hide, but to do this, I really, really need your support,” he said.
One of the legendary names of the Rugby world, Gareth Thomas has announced that he has been fighting HIV for years with an emotion-filled video. Thomas announced in 2009 that he was gay.
Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas announced that he was HIV positive. Thomas, 45, announced in a video on Twitter that he had been living for years with an incurable virus and had repeatedly considered suicide.
Wearing the national team jersey 100 times in his career, 16 years as a professional rugby pitch in the field of Thomas, his life has returned to hell because of illness, stated that the goal of the blackmailers.
Aret I was afraid that people would judge me and look at me like a leper. My life was dark and I thought of suicide many times. Although many people know that they have HIV, they are not ashamed and afraid. I no longer refuse to be among them ”.
Thomas, who said he was threatening to reveal his secret, went public after explaining his illness to his parents and brothers.
