Well-known Hollywood actor with HIV - the reporting of it

[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]

Mate, that's not what I was questioning. I realise the reasons why he went public. I was questioning why in this particular week - when the news was dominated by ISIS.

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I think you´re reading too much into this. I don´t think the two things are related.

There is always more than one news story happening each day!

This Charlie Sheen news is sad (and I think he is a very talented actor - steals every scene), but because he is a little bit "off" with whatever drug/alcohol and mental issues he is dealing with, I wouldn't necessarily believe the blackmail stories. I'm not saying it is impossible, but drug abusers also tend to not tell the truth ... So ... Whatever caused the timing of the announcement, we might never know for sure.

It's very sad that he's HIV positive, but he was a careless fool so it's not really all that surprising.

Re. the timing of his disclosure - I don't find it questionable. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

To go off on a tangent a little bit, anyone seen Jenny McCarthy's recent comments about him?

She just really, really needs to shut the hell up.


http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/jenny-mccarthy-on-charlie-sheen-hiv-status

"Jenny McCarthy Has Maybe the Worst Take on Charlie Sheen’s H.I.V. Status"

“Before we do a job,” she told listeners, “we have to sign a piece of paper that says, ‘Do you have cold sores?’ You have to sign a release that says, ‘Yes, I have cold sores;’ you need to show the medication…. Now, being on ‘Two and a Half Men’ myself, and being on the show and playing a love interest, you would think that there would be some type of … I don’t want to say, not criminal issue, but, I don’t even know how to feel about that. I’m like, wait a second, if I have to be up front about a herpe, how could you not be up front about H.I.V.? I look back and I’m like, OK, that would have been some valuable information.”

She went to add, “Look how many people have played his love interest on the show. Not that you can, obviously, get it through kissing, but still, that’s a big deal. Every person I’ve ever slept with, I have like, paperwork, I made everyone get an H.I.V. test because I’m S.T.D.-phobic just because of all the stuff I went through with [my son] Evan’s health…. Playing his love interest on the show, back in the day, I go, ‘Ick! That’s not fair. It’s scary.’ I have sympathy for him because, you know, he’s sick and it’s awful, but man, he’s going to have to take some major accountability with many people in his life.”

My wife has a friend that has firsthand knowledge of Jenny being a bad tipper (3%).

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

To go off on a tangent a little bit, anyone seen Jenny McCarthy's recent comments about him?

She just really, really needs to shut the hell up.


http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/jenny-mccarthy-on-charlie-sheen-hiv-status

"Jenny McCarthy Has Maybe the Worst Take on Charlie Sheen’s H.I.V. Status"

“Before we do a job,” she told listeners, “we have to sign a piece of paper that says, ‘Do you have cold sores?’ You have to sign a release that says, ‘Yes, I have cold sores;’ you need to show the medication…. Now, being on ‘Two and a Half Men’ myself, and being on the show and playing a love interest, you would think that there would be some type of … I don’t want to say, not criminal issue, but, I don’t even know how to feel about that. I’m like, wait a second, if I have to be up front about a herpe, how could you not be up front about H.I.V.? I look back and I’m like, OK, that would have been some valuable information.”

She went to add, “Look how many people have played his love interest on the show. Not that you can, obviously, get it through kissing, but still, that’s a big deal. Every person I’ve ever slept with, I have like, paperwork, I made everyone get an H.I.V. test because I’m S.T.D.-phobic just because of all the stuff I went through with [my son] Evan’s health…. Playing his love interest on the show, back in the day, I go, ‘Ick! That’s not fair. It’s scary.’ I have sympathy for him because, you know, he’s sick and it’s awful, but man, he’s going to have to take some major accountability with many people in his life.”

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Jenny McCarthy is an imbecile. "He's sick" - he's not sick, his viral load is undetectable, he just has a virus which is now functionally cured by taking four pills a day (I'm not going to go into the health problems, such as an increased risk of certain cancers and heart problems, which long-term HIV infection creates, as that's a whole other matter and is not related to the so-called "classic" symptoms of AIDS, but is instead a phenomena which only emerged in the modern days of combined retroviral therapy).

What an uninformed moron. And, sadly, many people know fuck-all about HIV, and have similar reasoning to hers. Their HIV education levels are stuck in the 1980s, and they don't even know the basic difference between HIV and AIDS.

No wonder the poor guy wanted to keep it a secret. I'm beginning to almost feel sorry for him.