Wendy Williams’ Well being and Non-public Struggles Throughout the Years

How she doin’? Over the years, Wendy Williams has made headlines for a lot more than simply her brutally truthful evaluations and on-air spats together with her A-list interviewees.

The debate display host, who used to be as soon as dubbed “New York’s Surprise Jockette” all over her radio days, has discovered herself face-to-face with a large number of well being and private struggles. She used to be hooked on cocaine for a decade to start with of her occupation, and extra lately has battled Graves’ illness, hyperthyroidism and different bodily illnesses.

Williams’ marriage has additionally been a sizzling matter (no pun meant). For years, she has weathered allegations that her now-ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, used to be dwelling a double existence and have been untrue to her. After the TV manufacturer welcomed a child with any other lady in March 2019, Williams in spite of everything pulled the plug on their 21-year marriage. The previous couple finalized their divorce in January 2020.

The next 12 months, Williams unfolded about the place she stood with Hunter, telling Additional, “He calls every now and then. … I don’t block his quantity regardless that, he’s my son [Kevin Jr.’s] father.”

The pair’s ups and downs had been explored in Williams’ Lifetime biopic, Wendy Williams: The Film, which aired in January 2021. A documentary titled Wendy Williams: What a Mess accompanied the film. Whilst talking with the Los Angeles Occasions in regards to the two motion pictures, the Masked Singer alum referred to them as a “breakup challenge.”

She defined in January 2021, “I’m 56 years outdated. My breakup challenge isn’t destroying my ex-husband. I don’t remorseful about assembly him. We fell in love virtually in an instant. We’ve been thru so much. … I haven’t any regrets about marrying him, and I haven’t any regrets about divorcing him.”

The New Jersey local asserted on the time that she had “outgrown” the connection irrespective of reported scandals. “That’s the easiest way I will be able to describe it,” she mentioned. “And I’ve permitted my enlargement versus combating it.”

Williams didn’t need both film to carry again about her previous — even essentially the most troubling portions. Audience realized that she is the survivor of sexual attack and were given a better have a look at her struggles with substance abuse. The Dancing With the Stars alum additionally recalled receiving “never-ending calls” with supportive messages about her prior miscarriages, which she skilled earlier than welcoming her son in 2000.

“You’d be stunned what number of ladies unfolded and mentioned, ‘Oh, my gosh, Wendy, that came about to me,’” she advised the newspaper. “I’d get stopped within the streets. … It actually turned into very soothing for me to really feel like my loss used to be in a position to assist other folks no longer really feel embarrassed, no longer really feel unsightly or lower than a lady.”

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