TikTok Star ‘Gena Tew’ Opens Up About Aids Diagnosis
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Social media influencer Gena Tew has been utilizing her platform on TikTok to share her journey and talk about her AIDS diagnosis with fans.
She first admitted to having AIDS in a TikTok video from March 2022. Tew claimed to have “gone through hell” and to still be in “hell.”
Who is Gena Tew?
A social media sensation named Gena Tew has just under 20,000 Instagram followers and more than 401 thousand TikTok followers. She has been posting videos on social media to update her followers on her journey and to discuss her AIDS diagnosis.
Although Lew’s page isn’t intended to be instructive or a documentary, she does “appreciate that people are receiving awareness of AIDS,” she added. Gena Tew is listed as being 27 years old on Famous Birthdays.
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Gena Tew disclaims her AIDS diagnosis
Tew has answered fans’ inquiries about her AIDS diagnosis and has been transparent about how she contracted it.
I don’t know who gave it to me or where I got it; all I know is that they told me I had to have had it for eight to ten years because I was so ill to the point of death. I was homeless and living in New York City at the time.
Tew claimed that when living in New York, she had been raped and that she had had free tattoos, thus it “may have been from a filthy needle.”
Gena Stew confesses to loss of mobility
Tew’s mobility has been impacted, and she has provided her online followers with numerous updates regarding her wheelchair, including a video she posted in May in which she informed them that she was still unable to walk.
Tew uploaded a video in June from the time she initially discovered she had AIDS while hospitalized. She said that she was unable to talk clearly because she was “so weak.”
Tew informed her followers that she was “still feeble” but “trying every day” at the end of June. In July, Tew informed her followers that she could now propel herself in her wheelchair.
Ankita Khanrah
Ankita Khanrah is a second-year student of the Master of Communication and Journalism (Integrated) programme at the School of Mass Communication, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar.
