"The Real World: New Orleans", the star Danny Roberts is HIV positive

by Christopher Rudolph

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If you were a gay teenager in the early 2000s, you will probably remember Danny Roberts, the roommate of The real world: New Orleans. Now in a new exclusive interview with Weekly entertainmentRoberts was declared HIV positive.

"I spent so much time fighting and fighting for my misconceptions and sectarianism," he says. "It is hard to admit the negative feelings you have felt about a set of people and a state of mind based on invented stories."

Roberts reveals that he discovered that he was HIV-positive in 2011, when he went to his doctor after fainting and waking up in a pool. of blood a weekend.

"My first reaction was a shock. Then I was angry and then a lot of denial … These early years were very difficult and very lonely, "he recalls. "You do not know who to talk to and people do not know what to say. It's not something people have experience with, "he says. "It is also possible that massive judgments are made about the behaviors that led to this and about the type of people that occurs."

The reality star turned digital recruiter said she was undetectable since her diagnosis. Although he was hoping for medical progress in recent years, he admits that living with HIV is like "having an old app crappy cell phone eat your energy. "

Roberts recently moved to New York City with his adopted daughter aged two and a half, and even though he was The real world home almost 20 years ago, he is still close to one of the clients, Kelley Limp, who married Group of five Scott Wolf stars.

"She is my life, my sister," says Roberts EW. "She was one of the first people to whom I spoke and who I spoke to. She was strong and helped me through that. "

Roberts explains that he had "so many negative feelings" to accept being HIV-positive. "I have been on such a path to overcome that. In a way, it really was like my second outing. "