Rupert Everett Feared That he Had Aids For Years

Openly gay British actor Rupert Everett recently stirred up controversy when he spoke about his opinions on gay parenting, and now he has opened up on another gay issue – AIDs. The actor reveals that in the early 80s he became terrified of contracting AIDs because some people he had been with in the past died from the disease and he candidly comments that he was constantly terrified. Rupert spoke:

“Having been such a s**g and a s**t in the 1970s, then Aids came along and I spent six years in sheer terror… That was part of my landscape then, this terror that was always there. Nearly everyone I slept with was dying, you couldn’t test until about 1986, and that was really the big period of my life.”

Rupert reveals that in the 70s, people had sex very freely and then AIDs made them terrified, something which he says effected his life greatly. He admits he was difficult to work with and could easily be moody or emotional because he found it so hard to live with:

“That’s what all queens went through who’d been in those days beforehand, when everyone f**ked everyone just as a matter of course… Terror makes you behave very strangely. People have forgotten about that. It was absolute terror. Living like that, if something niggled you, you could explode and be really difficult.”