DIANE REEVE: When I first started dating Philippe,
I was head over heels.
He was very charming.
He made me feel like the only woman on the face of the earth.
OPRAH: Four years into their relationship,
Diane says Philippe began pulling away from her.
She began to suspect him of cheating.
DIANE REEVE: He always had an excuse-- I'll have to do this.
I'll have to do this.
OPRAH: Although Philippe insisted he was being faithful,
Diane's gut told her differently.
DIANE REEVE: Because I was paying for his cell phone,
I checked his voicemail messages.
There were not one but two voicemail messages
from two different women.
And I knew.
So Diane was certain that Philippe was
cheating so she broke it off.
A few days later, she went to see her gynecologist
for a routine exam.
Watch this.
She called me a few days later and said,
you know, I really hate to tell you this,
but your Pap smear came back a little funny.
She told me that I had some precancerous cells
and it was due to an STD.
OPRAH: What happened next would turn the lives
of countless women upside down.
DIANE REEVE: I got a test.
Two days later, my OB-GYN called me and said,
you're HIV positive.
My heart went to the floor.
My knees buckled.
OPRAH: Diane went back through Philippe's cellphone records
and discovered he had been very busy.
He was dating nine other women at the same time.
OPRAH: Philippe's medical records
confirmed he knew he was HIV positive while having sex
with countless unknowing women.
Police charged him with six counts of aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon.
The weapon-- his bodily fluid.
Ten women, all now HIV positive, were willing to testify
against Philippe in open court.
Well, one of those courageous women was Diane Reeve.
She wrote a book about her ex-lover's epic betrayal.
We were in the court room.
The judge read the jury's determination.
And as they said guilty each time,
my heart got a little bit lighter and a little bit
lighter and a little bit lighter,
until, at the end, when they gave
the guilty verdict for the sixth victim, I knew that we had won.
When we all filed charges, none of us used our real names.
We were allowed to use fake names because of the stigma
associated with HIV.
I decided to come out on national television
that I had HIV because I thought it
was important to let people know that it can happen to anybody.
That you don't have to be a gay man.
Don't have to be a drug user.
And you don't even have to be promiscuous.
My life mission has always been about how can I
leave the world a better place.
I have entered into a campaign to help
educate specifically media.
And what I want to get across is that the language
that is used around HIV sometimes
perpetuates the stigma.
Everyone needs to know that you can live well with HIV.