Ashley Tisdale Not HIV Positive

Good news for Disney, Ashley Tisdale does not have HIV.

Earlier in the week, reports claimed that Tisdale had been diagnosed HIV positive, the result of a rhinoplasty procedure last year. Her fans went into panic mode, posting ‘Pray for Ashley’ videos on YouTube.

The rumor was posted to Digg, and took hold from there.

“Los Angeles – American actress and singer Ashley Tisdale, known for her role as Sharpay Evans in the movie High School Musical, has been diagnosed with HIV at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

While details are still sketchy at this time, a spokesman for the hospital said, “Ashley and her family are trying to come to terms with this horrible development. They only ask that you pray for Ashley’s health and to please respect their privacy as the family decides on the next course of action.”

An inside source stated that Ashley may have contracted the virus last year when she underwent a rhinoplasty procedure on November 30, 2007. According to Tisdale, this was done for health-related reasons and not out of a belief in plastic surgery; her “septum was 80 percent deviated” and she had “two small fractures on [her] nose”, and this was interfering with her breathing. She spoke to People magazine about the surgery, saying that it was important to her to be honest with her fans.

While the rhinoplasty procedure doesn’t involve a blood transfusion, the equipment used could have been contaminated. The source stated that Ashley had not been feeling well since last November, often complaining of headaches and a series of minor colds and bacterial infections. All of which she worked through until she was found passed out in her kitchen three days ago.”

Cedars-Sinai deny giving any release. The entire story appears to have been totally fabricated, for what reason, I can only guess.