EX “LIGHT” ACTOR
“GUIDING” KIDS TO AIDS AWARENESS
Filed by the Associated Press
| An actor who played an HIV-infected character on the Guiding Light soap opera is using himself as Exhibit A when it comes to the dangers of unsafe sex.Scott Fried, who played Bart Mesa on the CBS soap a few years ago, told students at the University of Maryland on Wednesday night that he contracted the AIDS-virus more than a decade ago.”I got infected the first time I had unsafe sex,” said Fried. The actor, who lives in New York, didn’t flinch from warning the students about the dangers of unsafe sex. “If that scares you, good,” he said of his diagnosis. |
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