By Katlego Sekhu
Pearl Thusi joins L Tido’s new podcast for an exclusive interview.
During the sitdown that lasted for an hour and a half, Pearl Thusi opened up about her parents and how they passed on.
The Queen Sono actress revealed that her mom contracted HIV from her dad. She notes that at the time, there was a stigma attached to the disease.
“My parents also went through a lot and as much as it’s important to talk about HIV and the stigmas and the fact that we have progressed so far ahead now – the last thing I need is for people to look at my parents and just think about that…”
Pearl hails her parents for fighting until the very end.
“My dad survived for a long time. Mom had gold stones and for her to have died from it was apparently very suspicious.”
She wishes that as a society, we can get to a point where we openly speak about HIV.
Pearl found out years after her mom’s death that she had HIV. “It was a secret,” she told L Tido.
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