Wendy Williams has finally granted an interview amid her ongoing personal and professional woes.
Williams has suffered undisclosed health issues that prevented her from appearing on the most recent season of The Wendy Williams Show. After missing more than half the season, producers fired her and replaced her with Sherri Shepherd as host.
Amid the professional chaos, Williams also launched a lawsuit against her bank, Wells Fargo, alleging that she’d been cut off from her finances. Court filings from the bank suggest Williams may suffer from dementia and be the victim of exploitation.
Now, she has sat down for a pre-taped conversation with Good Morning America to discuss the issues surrounding her health, finances, and show.
Correspondent T.J. Holmes began with the most obvious question: “Wendy, are you of sound mind?”
“Absolutely!” Williams giggled. “Are you?”
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On the subject of her finances, she didn’t hold back her frustration.
“Well, you know, when people want control of their accounts, they say anything, including something crazy like that about me,” she said. “They say that I need somebody to handle my account, and I don’t want that.”
“I want all my money. I want to see all my money that I’ve worked hard for my entire life. My entire life. I don’t lie, I don’t cheat, and I don’t steal. I am an honest, hard-working person.”
“I want to spend more time with my family,” Williams continued. “And you know, working out and waiting for the responses to my money situation and Wells Fargo. And they don’t like that. I’ve worked hard every single day, even on days when you know, I might have a little cold.”
Discussing the subject of her health, Williams further denied any trouble.
“If I was sick because you know, my back–or you know, when I got the lymphedema and stuff like that–I would still do my show. But quickly, not long time, very quickly, it went bad regarding this money thing.”
“[My] health is very well, and I’ve actually had a few appointments,” she added. “You know, I’m 57 now, and I have the mind and body of a 25-year-old.”
The former host then vowed to make a television comeback, though again alluded to vague health issues.
“Well, give me, give me about three months,” she promised. “There are private things that I have to deal with and then I’ll be ready to come back and free and ready to do my thing. Keep watching because I’m going to be back on The Wendy Show, bigger and brighter than ever.”
When asked to address Williams’ claims, Wells Fargo had no comment. The interview also comes as unnamed sources tell Radar Online that producers of The View have offered her a job as co-host of the show.
It’s worth noting that Williams refused to appear on camera for the Good Morning America interview, and did not appear in the studio either. Previous reports indicated that Williams was spending time with her family to recuperate and that she was considering legal action against the producers of her show. Whether or not this new interview will help end her ongoing issues with Wells Fargo or end speculation about her health remains to be seen.
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graphicjack
as soon as I heard her ex was sniffing around ‘helping her’ I smelled a rat. I think the bank is worried he’s trying to steal her money, or maybe they are working with him to steal her money. People are afraid of that guy and I assume there’s a reason for that. Wendy has even ‘joked’ on the show about ‘someone’ trying to tamper with her tea she drinks on the show. There needs to be some investigating on all this. The bank wouldn’t be pulling this unless something was really wrong.
The Accidental Polemicist
Good work, Nancy Drew.
jcool
what i read was that her son had power of attorney, but he’s only 21, so his dad jumped in. kevin sr has no legal power, which may explain the bank’s hesitancy.
Seth
Girl, bye.
Please let the door hit you on the way out.
Doug
Still no explanation whatsoever about why she’s been gone so long from her t.v. show for all this time. I can’t help but be a little apathetic about a woman who (sometimes quite rudely) made it her job to pry into other peoples’ private affairs on radio and tv but won’t reveal anything at all about her own.
winemaker
A bit of advice for Wendy Williams: don’t waste your time on the view. This one time interesting daytime talk show,(imagine if this was an evening thing, it wouldn’t have lasted as long as it has) when it debuted 26 years ago was a civil discussion forum discussing current events and timely topics even with guests that had different views. The original ladies that hosted the show were civil, polite and respectable with the various guests, like grown ups are supposed to act instead of the current bunch of nasty old hags always on the ‘rag’. or like immature and ill mannered teenagers
Over the years the ‘view’ has become a hateful rant trashing everything the so called hosts hate,. For 4 years it was Donald Trump and everything conservative and before that God knows who it was and over the years it has become an ulcer producing headache, indigestion and waste of intelligence and hour of valuable time that’s gone forever.
There used to be a saying that’s pretty much timeless: ‘classy people don’t air their dirty laundry or discuss personal issues in public’. The public doesn’t need to know Wendy Williams’ personal business much less her medical issues that as far as I know are private and should remain private and as for questions about this or any subjects of a personal nature, financial etc., she should say something along the line of none of your God damned business.
Ronbo
It was apparent from the beginning that Wendy’s mental issues were causing both personal problems and attracted public notoriety. I wish her treatment and recovery – in private. Shame on all who encouraged her televised sickness.
As for the View, Winemaker is right. I used to really, really like Whoopi; but, then things changed. Whoopie started attacking journalists for covering political corruption and now she says “they used to arrest people for doing stuff like this” urging her viewers to reject our freedom of speech given in our First Amendment.
And after her recent punishment , she advocaters the state to silencing the free speech and opinions that her producers didn’t like. The solution is not censorship; but, more speech. Pressure was brought to bear and she now support authartiarian controls on what can be said or heard.
I think that 98% of the people on this site are smart enough to form their own opinions. As usual, the love of money is the root of all evil.
Terrycloth
It’s too late to come back..your mental health and drug use is a risk. May have a relapse..she made a living making fun of Celebs. Now people are making fun of her..dosent feel so good does it ?