Danny Pintauro, ‘Who’s The Boss’ Star, Contracted HIV After Meth Use: Gay

The actor, now 39, told Oprah he has been HIV-positive for the last 12 years. However, in March 2003, he was diagnosed as HIV-positive, Business Standard reports. “Rosie came out four years after I did – I missed the opportunity to be a beacon of light for gay kids who were going through what I was going through”, he tells Winfrey.

Asked if she is anxiousabout the actor’s HIV-positive diagnosis, the actress shares, “No, I wasn’t anxiousbecause I knew he was taking responsibility for it, and I knew that he was taking care of himself”.

Such gossip, he said, put the two “in a weird position of having to answer…Which was then really deeply offensive”. In a new interview with Fox 5 NY, 66-year-old Light says she’s actually been advising him since he first publicly announced he was gay in 1997, after the National Enquirer threatened to out him. “You can determine how the man is doing”. He said he wanted to tell Oprah and the world “a long time ago” but that he wasn’t ready. He spilled the details in an interview on “Oprah: Where Are They Now“, according to Entertainment Weekly (EW).

Actor Danny Pintauro reveals his fear of contracting HIV prior to receiving the diagnosis. “It’s a weird combination of feelings”, he said. Pintauro has serious goals and intentions, he said, and he wants to start a door-to-door campaign to make a difference with both issues.

“I feel like one of the ways the community is going to listen is for me to be pretty harsh”, Pintauro continued, saying he won’t mince words. He contracted HIV around this time, the report relays. “I don’t want to, like [imply] it’s a fewsort of disease – then it’s like I’m throwing my friends under the bus”. “The first thing he said was, ‘I’m not scared of it at all.'” Pintauro married Will Tabares in 2014.