Nacho Vidal Claims HIV Diagnosis Was False Positive in New Vid

CYBERSPACE—Porn superstar Nacho Vidal has released the promised follow-up to the video he posted last week in which he acknowledged for the first time that he was the European performer who tested positive for HIV last February, sparking an industry shut-down throughout the continent. In the new video, Vidal asserts that the HIV-positive diagnosis he received at the time was in fact a false positive, rendered as a result of a bout he experienced around the same time with a chronic disease he learned he'd contracted long beforehand called Reiter's syndrome. "It's a virus like herpes," Vidal explains (in Spanish with English subtitles, just as in the preceding video). "Herpes is asleep until one day your defenses get real low and it appears. ... This Reiter's virus was asleep for many years ... don't know how many I had it and didn't know about it." After describing a number of symptoms he says he went through for about a week seven months ago, which would have been the beginning of February—including a high fever, diarrhea, nausea, hemorrhoids, prostatits and a swollen hand—Vidal contends, "With all that stuff happening in my body ... I went for an HIV test. The famous HIV test that tested positive for HIV. "OK," he continues. "There's this thing called false positive ... false positive is when the positive result is false. For any given reason. Something interfered in it ... a flu, a virus, or you feeling very sick, and I had Reiter's syndrome. Not HIV ... Reiter's." Vidal goes on to explain that he continued to suffer with pain for several months before receiving the Reiter's diagnosis. The timeline as he relays it does raise questions, including but not limited to how he was able to shoot seven scenes just prior to getting the HIV-positive test result he now says was false if he was in the sort of physical distress he describes here at the time. Reiter's syndrome—now more commonly known as reactive arthritis—has been linked in medical journals to HIV and other STDs. MedicalNewsToday.com, for one, noted in a 2017 overview that the disease is "one of the first symptoms of HIV infection shown by people who are HIV positive." And an article on WebMD.com states, "In sexually active males, most cases of reactive arthritis follow infection with Chlamydia trachomatis or Ureaplasma urealyticum, both sexually tramistted diseases. ... Besides using condoms during sexual activity, there is no known preventative measure for reactive arthritis." In any event, Vidal seems to imply in this second video that his days of shooting porn are over. "I'm doing this thing of confessing this handicap because I can't work anymore," he says. "I can't work in anything 'cause Reiter's syndrome is a chronic disease ... you have it for life. ... Little by little I've been getting out of this slump. And I'm at this stage of my life where I want to reinvent myself. I HAVE to reinvent myself. "I've tried to produce some porn," he adds. "I just have to take my camera, I don't need to act in it. ... And I've tried, but it doesn't happen, it doesn't materialize. ... To grab a camera and record someone in front of me fucking a girl, and to detect they're faking it, it makes me sick, and I can't work. That's the reason I took a step back from the industry. That's the reason I stopped working, 'cause I can't work. Because I hate falseness. And the porn that we're producing these days is bullshit. Complete bullshit. It's all fake. Just to want to, or trying to make a scene like the ones we used to produce 10 years or maybe 15 years ago, it's impossible now. Prostitution, Viagra, penis injections ... all that bullshit that comes from the amount of excessive pornography has destroyed the entire industry." See the full video below: Screen shot taken from Nacho Vidal's official YouTube channel.