Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas has revealed he has been living with HIV &quo...
- Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas has revealed he has been living with HIV “for years” and appealed for support to “break the stigma” around the condition.
“I’m Gareth Thomas and I want to share my secret with you. Why? Because it’s mine to tell you, not the emails that make my life hell, threatening to tell you before I do, and because I believe in you and I trust you,” he said. Thomas was capped 100 times for Wales in an international career spanning 1995-2007 and also captained the British and Irish Lions in 2005.
“I had a fear people would judge me and treat me like a leper because of a lack of knowledge,” the paper quoted him as saying.“To me, wanting to die was just a natural thought and felt like the easier way out, but you have to confront things. And having a strong support system and the personal strength and experience of overcoming those emotions got me through it.”
Thomas’s revelation comes just over a week before Wales play their first World Cup match against Georgia in Japan, where the former skipper will work as a pundit for broadcaster ITV.
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