Danny Pintauro Former superstar Of ‘Who’s The Boss?’ reveals To Oprah Winfrey he is HIV-certain

September 27, 2015

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Former child superstar Danny Pintauro revealed that he has been residing with a big secret for more than a decade: he’s HIV-positive.

Pintauro performed Jonathan on the hit family sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” For eight years, Pintauro played the son of a pushed single mom, successful over audiences along with his nerdy allure. but, in the years after “Who’s the Boss?” ended, the once-lighthearted little boy grew into an advanced young man looking to reside a personal life within the public eye, in keeping with Huffington publish.

“i wanted to let you know this a long time in the past, however I wasn’t prepared. I’m prepared now,” Pintauro stated. “I’m HIV-sure, and i’ve been for 12 years.”

one of the most causes that Pintauro did not previously speak publicly about his well being before, he said, is because he used to be not positive if individuals had been prepared for a conversation of this magnitude. “It’s simply a huge deal, you understand? It’s now not one thing that persons are truly talking about right now,” Pintauro mentioned. Pintauro said he incessantly underwent routine HIV checking out each six months. Then, in March of 2003, his entire world modified.

“I used to be residing in new york at the time and entirely clueless to the concept I used to be positive. I went in for a typical checkup,” Pintauro says. “It was once simply common blood work. You go in, and you kind of waited two weeks on pins and needles — or as a minimum I did, as a result of I was simply scared of the theory of getting HIV.”

Pintauro’s experimentation with meth began after he ended a two-yr relationship and wished to pursue sides of his sexuality that had previously “terrified” him. For him – as for many contributors of the homosexual community – it was an easy, if dangerous, repair, consistent with individuals.

“You all of sudden lose all of your inhibitions, you haven’t any limits, you haven’t any boundaries, you’re feeling invincible. you feel extremely heightened relating to your sexuality, and the whole lot sounds and feels thrilling to you. In that subculture of BDSM and bondage, it makes sense that a drug like that might go hand in hand with checking out your limits and making an attempt new issues and getting dark and dirty and horny and all of that,” says the former child star, 39. “So sadly those existence have gotten intertwined, and that’s precisely how I acquired into it in the first position.”

Pintauro tweeted earlier than Saturday’s episode that it could be a “life changing convey.” After the airing, he pointed out himself as an “activist” in an Instagram put up that includes an image of him together with his husband, Wil Tabares, whom he married in 2014.

ultimate meal as a no person. 😉 first meal as an activist. #lifelovelive

a photo posted by Danny Pintauro (@dannypintauro) on Sep 26, 2015 at 6:11pm PDT