We've avoided too much talk about the recent missteps of George Michael, as it is just too sad to see him turn into the Courtney Love of gay pop. Michael's recent life has been riddled with drugs, bathroom sex, and arrests, and now as we learned recently, no HIV/AIDS test in three years. Deeply saddening to hear, considering this is just one day after National HIV Testing Day.

According to the Sun Michael says in a new BBC2 documentary "he does not believe in tests". Ross Wilson, the producer of the documentary says, "He says he finds the wait for results too harrowing and that he hasn’t had a test since at least 2004 due to his fears it might be positive.” All I can say to that is, let's hope the former rump-shaker was high when he said that.

How did this happen when George Michael was once a champion for HIV/AIDS awareness before it was popular? In 1991 Michael sang a riveting version of "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with Elton John at a benefit for the London Lighthouse AIDS hospice, and the live version of the song would go onto become a number one hit on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1992 it was George Michael who stole the show at the Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert, who passed of complication of HIV/AIDS in November 1991, with his tribute performance of the power ballad "Somebody to Love" — a Freddy Mercury/Queen original.

George Michael was also part of 1992's Red Hot and Dance AIDS charity project and had three songs on the album, including the hit "Too Funky". Michael was instrumental in bringing the album to life, which included songs from Madonna, Seal, Lisa Stansfield and others. In addition, as early as last month George Michael dedicated a concert in Sofia, Bulgaria to Bulgarian nurses who were sentenced to death in Libya for HIV infection charges.

George Michael's dedication to HIV/AIDS work is endless and it is terrible to see the space he is in today. Let's take a look back at one of the greatest moments of his career with George Michael's performance of "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with Elton John, and hope that he pulls out of this rut.