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but prefers he/him pronouns, bravely opened up about childhood sexual abuse and his HIV status."It's hard for me to be as open as I want to be when there are certain things I haven't shared publicly," he told theVan Ness shared that when he was a child growing up in the small city of Quincy, Illinois, he was abused by an older boy from church."For a lot of people who are survivors of sexual assault at a young age, we have a lot of compounded trauma," he said.
The years that followed were difficult. Van Ness had a hard time in high school . Once he started college in Arizona, he began using cocaine regularly. And after beginning a career as a hairdresser, Van Ness kept using drugs, including crystal methamphetamines, and went to rehab twice. He told thethat at 25, he fainted while working in a salon. The next day, he went to Planned Parenthood and tested positive for HIV.
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