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Ryan Lewis Reveals His Mom is HIV-Positive
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Ryan Lewis is going public with a very personal story. The music producer -- one-half of the Grammy-winning hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis -- revealed on Tuesday, April 22, that his mom, Julie Lewis, is HIV-positive.
Lewis, 26, tweeted the news as part of an announcement about the 30/30 Project, a nonprofit he created with his mom and Macklemore to provide access to affordable healthcare worldwide. "A huge part of what's made me who I am, is something I haven't talked about in interviews, until now," he wrote, along with a link to the fundraising page for the project.
A longer message appears on the organization's official site. "If I could just take a few moments of your time, I'd love to tell you about the strongest woman that I know, my mom, Julie Lewis," the note begins.
It goes on to detail how Julie contracted HIV. "In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body," Lewis writes. "When she was finally diagnosed, she was given only a few years to live."
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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...lemore-2014224
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