Wendy Williams Breaks Down, Reveals She Has ‘No Cash’ Left

A brand new trailer launched by Lifetime for the upcoming documentary The place Is Wendy Williams? exhibits that the ex-daytime discuss present host, whose beloved present was cancelled in 2021 amidst experiences of Williams’ declining well being, is clearly struggling. Within the clip, Williams’ household expresses concern that her crew is profiting from her court-appointed monetary guardianship and vulnerability. Williams herself, who within the trailer footage usually seems confused and distressed, says that she’s in dire monetary straits.

“I’ve no cash,” Williams says in a speaking head interview. “I’m gonna let you know one thing, if it occurs to me, it might occur to you.”

In February of 2022, Wells Fargo petitioned a New York decide to nominate a monetary guardian for Williams after the financial institution decided that the discuss present host was an “incapacitated individual.” In August of the identical 12 months, Williams introduced that she was married to an NYPD officer, and a month later reportedly checked into rehab to deal with alcohol abuse points.

Her discuss present, The Wendy Williams Present, ran for 14 seasons and was beloved by followers for the host’s biting takes on popular culture. Williams has battled a 10-year dependancy to cocaine, in addition to problems from Graves’ illness and hyperthyroidism, at separate occasions in her profession.

“She at all times talks about how she desires to work, however I really feel as if she’s labored sufficient,” Williams’ son, Kevin Hunter Jr., says within the trailer.

In one other alarming scene, Williams’ supervisor, Will Selby, holds up an empty liquor bottle and asks the discuss present host, “Did you drink this complete factor in the present day?”

“Hold it there, hold it there,” Williams, mendacity in mattress, solutions. Later, proven being pushed round New York Metropolis, Williams says she’s not sure the place she is.

Main as much as the cancellation of her present in 2021, producers on Wendy Williams needed to textual content executives at their dad or mum firm, Debmar-Mercury, “a minimum of 25” occasions asking whether or not she was sober to movie, based on experiences on the time.

Lifetime has produced two different initiatives centered round Williams’ private battles: 2021’s Wendy Williams: The Film, which documented the aftermath of Williams submitting for divorce from her husband, Kevin Hunter, in 2019 after a number of experiences of Hunter’s infidelity. Lifetime additionally launched the documentary Wendy Williams: What a Mess that very same 12 months.

In June of 2023, Selby informed Leisure Tonight that Williams had returned to a wellness remedy facility—she’s logged a number of stints in recent times—and was “doing her finest to be her finest.”