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Rupert Everett ran in opposite direction when boyfriend was diagnosed with HIV in 80s Wed. March 10, 2021 7:59 AM by Carlos Santoscoy
Everett, 61, is best known in the U.S. for playing a gay friend in the 1997 film
My Best Friend s Wedding and Lord Arthur Goring in the 1999 movie
An Ideal Husband. Everett wrote, directed, and starred in the 2018 film
The Happy Prince about the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, who spent two years in an English prison for having gay sex.
Appearing on ITV s
Piers Morgan s Life Stories, Everett told host Piers Morgan that he was very lucky to have avoided contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.