Kat Von D thought she had HIV for 3 years after being told so by deceptive counselor

31.03.2022 - 23:51 / wonderwall.com

Paris Hilton on the heiress's "Trapped in Treatment" podcast. Paris also famously attended the Utah school, where she alleged that she was physically, mentally and emotionally abused."My experience was probably a little different than yours because my parents put me in there because they were terrified of the tattoo world, you know," Kat told Paris. "And I don't blame them at the time.

There was no TV shows. There was, you know, … the perspective on tattooing was really just about, like, hoodlums and, you know, you're either a hooker or in a gang or something terrible. And so they were terrified and they didn't realize it was just a form of self-expression.

So when I got admitted that was one of the things that they wanted to cure me from."While there as a 15-year-old, a school counselor told Kat she was HIV-positive."I don't know whose idea it was, but at one point the counselor set me aside and basically told me that I had contracted HIV from a tattoo," Kat recalled. "And this was after they take your blood and a stool test and a urine test and all that. And so you're sitting there with somebody who you think is qualified, who absolutely has zero credentials.

And they're telling you news like this. As a 15-year-old, I mean, I was, you know, I can't even believe that that happened."When Kat, now 40, left the school following a six-month stint, no one ever told her the truth, so she went through the next several years of her life believing she was living with HIV."When I did get admitted out, I was never told that that was just a joke that that was false," Kat said, "I went through my entire life up until I got tested again, you know, at the age of 17 or 18. And then realized that, 'Okay, cool.