New trainwreck Wendy Williams documentary on the way

🎶 ooooh I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain…. 🎶

Poor Wendy

But she still has time for a weave.

This is so sad. I enjoyed her talk show for several years. I hope her family can somehow help her.

Do we think it’s drugs or are we going to find out she has a brain tumor?

r5 I believe it's a combination of substance abuse with physical and mental ailments. And the substance abuse is exasperating her other problems. But of course, I'm not a doctor.

Heartbreaking.

I don't care for Wendy Williams, but I'm not actively wishing her harm, either. The one I feel bad for in this situation, is her son Kevin Jr.

How you BooHooing?

R6, it’s “exacerbating.”

What's wrong with her?

r11 She's unwell.

Wendy Williams made a career by slinging mud and outing people. She was especially cruel to others with substance abuse issues while she herself was actively using and abusing.

This is just slow burn karma.

She’s paying with her life.

r10 Thank you. The Data Lounge remains a learning place.

That's obvious R12 - but with what exactly? What's wrong with her?

R13 No such thing as karma, sadly.

Otherwise DJT would be suffering in a gutter.

R16 In all that time you could have used Google.

[quote] Wendy Williams made a career by slinging mud and outing people.

As has Datalounge. Get off your high horse.

She's nowhere near as bad as Perez the giant Olmec head.

For some people, being in front of the camera is the last thing they need. If she'd just led a normal life, she might be much healthier mentally. She looks so sad.

She’ll be much healthier in a convent in the South Seas….

The trailer is soo sad

About a year ago, I seem to recall that a camera crew was following Wendy and she said it was for some "upcoming endeavor". This was when she was really messed up and was seen going into liquor stores and getting into taxis and nodding off on a couch in some gallery. Wendy made it seem like this video was going to be a glimpse into her fabulous life in NY and would be used to promote that new podcast she kept promising but never happened. This was also around the time when she was slurring and stumbling around NYC saying weird shit and was probably too out of it to realize that any video was just going to show someone who needed rehab.

I just thought it was some leech production team saw a trainwreck and wanted to get it all on film and told Wendy it would be fabulous, and she believed it. I think this is that video but I will say that Wendy looks semi-rational in some of the pics in this thread. Maybe she is (getting) better.

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It looks rough. It must feel so awful to have enjoyed such good fortune and success, and then publicly let it slip through your fingers. I didn’t watch her program but I saw her in clips and videos. Before her show she was a DJ in the NYC metro markets, and I think earlier a scrappy “on the scene” entertainment reporter. I remember one clip where she called out to a famous actress, who proceeded to ignore her. Williams turned the camera and said “oh there SHE goes…”

R25 Her demise is hilarious. It’s her best material really. What goes around comes around!

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What is wrong with her eyes? Some thyroid problem?

r27 "What goes around comes around!"

No, sadly it doesn't.

I didn't know she was still alive. She must be in bad shape.

R29 Yes.

R29 Affirmative. She has graves disease which can make the eyes appear prominent, like Barb Bush and Marty Feldman.

She's a monster. How's that fame working out for you, Wendy?

Wendy Williams? Let’s shift over to Wendy O. Williams….

If I hadn't watched Wendy decline while her show was on the air, I would think that she was faking it in the Lifetime thing to make for a "juicier" watch. It is so dramatic it seems like some writer sat down and constructed a pilot where we see a woman who is going through many personal issues, but I saw Wendy go downhill/act strange those last 3-4 years onstage of her daily talk show so I see that this is real life.

But who is behind this doc... Wendy herself or someone looking to make a few bucks by exposing a trainwreck? This doesn't make Wendy look good, but if Wendy is in a declining state, is she too far gone to realize? This is not the process of a phoenix rising from the ashes.

People are speculating her breast implants are a cause of the health problems

I always said her body issues started when she ate a crow on her show. It was so gross and disgusting.

Why is she acting like a nymphomaniac all of a sudden?

😂 whaaaaaat r38?

R40, I think she said that if Kim and Kanye’s marriage lasted longer than Kim’s marriage to Kris Humphries then she would eat crow on the show. They had a chef from New Orleans come to NY and prepare crow for her to eat on the show.

I blame the crow.

She was more coherent in this documentary than she has seemed the past few times she has been on video (such as a TMZ video chat where she seemed very unwell and was barely able to string together a couple of clear sentences). But my question is what was she drinking while lying on her sofa? Cheap bottled sangria, poured into a glass? Kool-Aid with vodka? It was very yellow, and she seemed to really need whatever it was, telling someone who was off camera not to take it away.

The way she would drag Whitney Houston about her drug addiction, lesbianism, etc., on the radio, karma came back to humble her ass. I haven't watched the documentary, but it sounds more entertaining than the first one she did a few years ago.

Never liked her, never watched her.

I thought it's not released until Feb 24th?

Yahoo posted this article about the upcoming doc. A few family members and others give details on Wendy's issues -- a driver tells how he was instructed by Wendy to drive past the studio where her show was taped. Five minutes after going past it, Wendy asked him to drive by again, like she didn't just have him do this already.

Her son says that Wendy has definite cognitive issues, like memory loss, etc. which doctors attribute to years of alcohol abuse. There a 2-3 articles about Wendy linked on Yahoo with some pictures of her back in her radio days and when she first got her TV show. Make sure to scroll down to see Wendy back in the day and gawk at some of the ghetto fabulous outfits, those untamed implants and over the top wigs and accessories. You will have a laugh but it's also sad to see how she has changed physically.

R3 that is a wig, not a weave. It's like a hat, you just slap it on.

R5 she is a RAGING alcoholic. She was going through a bottle of vodka a day.

R16 she has Graves' disease and lymphedema made worse by her alcoholism.

Her show was fabulous. She was real and spoke in a way no one else was willing to. She didn't seem afraid of anything. She didn't have any celebrity friends she said because then she couldn't talk about them. She just did her show and went back to her life in NJ. Even when the story turned to her life, she said she didn't blame those for talking about her because that's how she made her career. She knew she was a hot topic.

She knew her husband was having an affair for years, but the agreement was not to get his girlfriend pregnant, especially since she had had like five miscarriages herself. Anyway her husband announced his girlfriend were pregnant and that was that. I feel bad for her - her mom (who was a regular on the show) died around the same time as her husband left her around the same time her son went off to college. So she went from a family around her to nothing all at once. THAT was the nail in the coffin of her show - it was too much for her to take.

I was never a fan; she seemed to thrive on negativity.

"The Lord don't like ugly." (a/k/a karma).

Karma is a bitch that don’t like Wendy Williams m.

Every time I see Wendy's photo on a feed now I brace myself for the news of her death. It's sad.

I think she should've ended the daytime show around 2018, she still had an excellent run. There were warning signs then that she was cracking; it started with random emotional breakdowns on air and she lost a significant amount of weight. There was no way she could balance the personal drama at home, addiction, and getting on TV every morning. Her pride kept her in the marriage and on TV too long.

I'm glad her son is seeing after her now; I think subconsciously she knew her whole life that her kid would be the only person to really understand her.

I'm going to hold a watch party. I think I can make hors'doeuvres in her likeness with Vienna Sausages for legs.

*hors d'oeuvres 🤦

I’m not a trash-culture connoisseur so I have no idea who she is.

Lifetime's promo department is sparing no expense to get this out to the masses - ABC’s Good Morning America will talk about the doc tomorrow (2/22) morning and talk to her family members. I wonder who they got... her poor burdened young son Kevin Jr., her shifty brother Tommy, her older sister Wanda, who I've never seen.

I would bet money that it will probably be some distant cousin or aunt who was doesn't really know jack squat but is just hyped to get a trip to NY.

I can't watch. Seems exploitative to me. No one needs to see this shit.

[quote] I’m not a trash-culture connoisseur so I have no idea who she is.

And that's why you clicked on this thread, hon?

If Karma came for anyone it was her husband. That was revenge served cold. Even though Wendy is a real mess right now, some wonder if the unraveling of her show was partly planned by her to get back at her husband. I do remember before everything fell apart she mentioned on her show that she would not be doing this forever. She had a good solid ten year run. BUT part of the agreement of her divorce and spousal support was that payments to her husband wouldn't continue if her income changed or was severely affected.

Her husband was living high off all of Wendy's work. He had bought a huge home for his mistress, expensive cars, luxury vacations, handbags. As soon as Wendy stopped her show those payments stopped. In the course of a year his mistress left him and he was online selling items JUST to pay his mortgage. And I am sure he has to pay child support to the women. Whereas Wendy still has a lot of money even though it's under a conservatorship, the payments to her husband stopped and he hasn't gotten anything since.

I see people making Kevin the villain in Wendy's life, but I just can't feel that bad for Wendy because she LET her husband screw around for years, have a mistress, spend her money, take advantage of her. She made him the producer of her show, let him run rampant in the offices. If she decided to turn a blind eye to all of that, I can't muster much sympathy for her. Her husband is a creep but she enabled that behavior. I feel bad for Wendy because of her health and other issues, but I can't get into the "poor Wendy!" mindset and make her a martyr about her marriage.

She was in charge of this marriage and could have left the guy when he had his first affair while she was pregnant.

Wendy has been diagnosed with Aphasia and dementia, same as Bruce Willis.

[quote] And that's why you clicked on this thread, hon?

Yes exactly! It amuses me to scoff at what the hoi polloi watch.

Pat Brown says SHAME ON YOU!

I'm watching this in real time - it just started. Love Wendy or hate her, the first 5 minutes are incredibly cringy, sad and depressing. Buckle up and get your happy pills because this is a hard watch.

This is just sad. Really, really sad.

She forgot to get a weave.

That manager Will Selby seems like a viper yes-man with dollar signs in his eyes.

Wendy is insane. She tells her assistant she needs lipo, calls everyone dumbasses, she’s worse than Leona Hemsley.

Delusional, a drunk, nasty to everyone, Wendy is a gay icon!

Let’s call in some liquor and Blus!

Wendy is our new Liza. Christ.

Her assistant is a Yes Man. She’s the same as Anna Nicole’s Howard.

A friend of mine has a cousin who did hair and make-up for Wendy on her show a few years ago. It was while Wendy was still married, and her husband was at the set all day with her. The cousin liked Wendy a lot, and said she was a very nice woman while they worked together, and a great mom to her young son (who used to be by her side in her dressing room, while she was getting 'made up'). It was her husband that my friend's cousin could not tolerate - he was sexist, rude, vulgar and demeaning to the females on the staff. Wendy would pull the women aside when he wasn't around, and apologize for his behavior. She found him to be condescending and demeaning to his wife - but Wendy would try to laugh it off and pretend it didn't bother her. My friend's cousin finally left after being there for two consecutive seasons. She was happy when Wendy left her husband.

Anyway…

R13 still wins.

Black don’t crack……but it sho can crack up!

She fainted on her show in 2017. I remember that was the beginning of her downfall. Sad last days

🎶 Cry me a river 🎶

[quote] "What is wrong with her eyes? Some thyroid problem?"

Graves Disease, R29.

[quote] "I can't watch. Seems exploitative to me. No one needs to see this shit."

Same, R56.

The anti-vaxxers are using her health and Bruce Wills' as propaganda.

About 2 years before the show ended, Wendy had a Dating Game for herself, as she was openly stating that she missed having a man around. I bet the guy who "won" is so happy that the relationship fizzled out and he didn't get tied to the circus that Wendy's life became -- those years were the beginning of the decline, so maybe the guy saw the writing on the wall and bailed for his own sanity.

I can’t get over how mean Wendy is in this. It’s definitely the illness talking though. She’s so incoherent. It’s like watching an old man in hospice calling nurses every name in the book because they forgot to put ice in their water.

I have a difficult time watching it, though I watched last nights part 1.

Her disorder/disease causes her eye balls to bulge out of her head. She has huge eye balls like a cow.

The zoom in on her feet was horrifying. I know she has lipedema but was that really necessary? I get why she's been wearing runners and high tops now.

I feel bad for her. She was a cunt to be sure, but so was Howard Stern, who came up the same way she did. I don't hear anyone slagging him for it though. Nobody deserves to suffer like that and it seems she's been self destructing with the booze and coke for a long time.

Part 2 is tonight and I'll be tuning in.

I am no fan and found her show borderline disgusting. But I do not wish fronto temporal dementia on anyone.

Niece Alex seems to be the only one who genuinely cares, and that includes WW's son (who is his father's child and equally abhorrent).

Fire all the staff: there is no need for a manager, P.R person, etc. Leeches, all.

That "publicist" is such an obvious vulture (Shawn) that she can't even lie half way convincingly. What a fucking grifter.

How can people like this be kept away from her? Is this the responsibility of her guardian and why aren't they naming and SHAMING them? I think the manager dude genuinely cares and is frustrated as he has lost control thanks to that grifter cunt that's trucking her around. Among others I'm sure. She says her bank account was drained and I'm inclined to believe her.

The truth behind court-ordered guardianship. A truly harrowing read describing how any Tom, Dick or Mary can become a "guardian."

The Retired Pilot Went Into The Hospital. Then His Life Went Into A Tailspin. Many older people are one medical emergency away from a court-appointed guardian taking control of their lives

THE Washington Post November 4, 2023 By Mary Jordan

ORLANDO — "When Douglas Hulse pulled his Ford Mustang convertible into a Florida gas station three years ago, he looked so distressed that someone called 911.

An ambulance rushed him to Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital, where doctors said he had a stroke. At 80, the retired pilot who had flown famous passengers around the country could no longer care for himself.

But Hulse lived alone — as 3 out of 5 Americans in their 80s do.

A hospital can be liable if a patient is discharged into an unsafe environment. Because Hulse lived alone and the hospital officials saw no sign that he had family, that put them in a bind when his health didn’t improve. So they argued in court that he was no longer capable of making his own decisions and needed a guardian — a caretaker with enormous legal power.

When a judge agreed, Hulse lost basic freedoms: He couldn’t spend his own money or decide where to live. The lifelong Republican who had just cast his ballot in the 2020 presidential primary even lost his right to vote. He was quickly moved to a nursing home. His new guardian, a woman he had never met, began selling his house and his belongings."

Read the full article at WAPO. It ain't pretty.

What a monstrous woman. JFC

Oh, my god. Her niece is the only one with any sense and sees what’s going on. There’s one point where she says that her aunt would tell her that there was food and water in the refrigerator and to take what she wanted. The producer tells her alone to go to the refrigerator and she says that she doesn’t want to. The producer tells her that there is no food in the refrigerator.

Her niece totally calls out Wendy’s assistant and sees that she’s getting paid to tell her aunt whatever she wants to hear.

As awful as this documentary is, it’s probably one of the realest one I’ve seen in a long time.

Wendy on the phone: “I flew to Los Angeles with (thinks) the black girl”

She can’t even remember the assistant’s name.

She goes to her star, stands there waiting for people to approach her.

Assistant: “Wendy, do you want to go to the Oscars?”

Wendy: “What’s Oscars?”

R83 she’s not wearing high top sneakers she’s wearing fur fucked uggs with every outfit. It looks like shit especially when Wendy decides to put on her hooker inspired hoochie shorts with the caveman boots. It looks ridiculous at the very least. But she’s sick in the head.

Wendy’s guardian.

About the guardian’s identity - Sabrina Morrissey. They censor it in the documentary.

Wendy’s son is a vegan.

Wendy’s apartment is so narrow.

Wendy’s niece is a newscaster in Florida.

Oh, god, idiot Diane Dimond is in this.

Fox News Republican wannabe Diane Dimond is such a fool. I remember her trashing Obama and playing George W up as a hero during Katrina. lol. She also goes on rants about hate crimes and how we shouldn’t have them - all crime is hate. She would sell her first born to get on television.

She's quite unattractive without makeup.

She’s unattractive with makeup too

[quote] She goes to her star, stands there waiting for people to approach her.

That is even something Valerie Cherish would never sink to doing...

Her star was out in the boonies lol.

I don’t think I’ve seen Diane Dimond, R101, since Jacko died.

A few things:

1. Who the hell with Wendy money keeps ALL of their liquid cash at one bank (Wells Fargo)?? Seriously. Isn't it only insured up to $250k anyway?

2. What type of PR person would even allow this train wreck to be filmed? This documentary was the worst PR imaginable. Fire the PR chick, she's clearly useless and Wendy's image is beyond repair.

3. Wendy constantly traipses around in fur after having done anti-fur ads for PETA. Real nice! PETA should sue for their money back.

Actually, the documentary helps the family. They want the public to see what is really going on.

Of course this is their version depending on who’s side the Lifetime crew is on.

Alice the Goon wore furry uggs too.

I never watched Lifetime before the WW doc, but I know it is infamous for its trashy and tacky movies, many based on real-life situations. I had no idea how crappy those productions are until I saw some of the commercials for movies upcoming on the channel while watching the doc.

One had NeNe Leakes and Denise Richards as two rich bitches stranded on an island and being hunted. The other one was a remake of Single White Female but with two large black women in the title roles. The 30 seconds I watched of that movie was cringy - the actresses were embarrassingly amateurish and... ooof. OMG those movies looked bad.

I don't think Wendy knows what "podcast" is.

She was saying “podcast” years ago online while they were filming this documentary. Everyone was making fun of it years ago.

Watching part 3 where Wendy was in California, she reminded me of the character Norma Desmond. In the movie Sunset Boulevard, Norma is an old movie star who is always dreaming of getting back in front of the cameras, but doesn't realize that her days are over.

Wendy stumbling the streets of CA, visiting studios to make contacts, and asking folks if they know who she is was sad. Also, hearing her constantly mumbling that she needs to get working again, she is Norma v2. Poor dear.

"Even if they don't know the Wendy Williams Show, everybody instantly falls in love with me." ::proceeds to treat every single person she comes into contact with like complete & utter trash::

She should be Trumps VP

I binged this last night and it was .... disturbing. Not to be naive, but I hope she can somewhat bounce back from these cognitive/mental/physical health issues to have a meaningful live away from the entertainment industry? Dementia and aphasia sound like a sinking ship though. Her guardianship situation was/is truly fucked up as things didn't need to get that bad and could have been prevented to some extent. Yes, I get that nobody was forcing a bottle of vodka a day down her throat.

R117 with dementia it’s going to get progressively worse. There’s no bouncing back from this. She may have her good days or even good weeks but she’s not going to get better.

Podcast! I'm gonna do podcast!

[quote] Podcast! I'm gonna do podcast!

And book that Oscar guy. He sounds fun...

R210, but only if I can wear my coochie cutters, Gucci t-shirt and furry boots.

Those fur boots look so ridiculous

I love that in that wreck of a body of hers, she's still impressed by the fact she's got thigh gap.

[quote]Those fur boots look so ridiculous

They are the only things sold off-the-rack that will fit her feet.

Youtube psychologist Dr. Grande has given his opinion on the WW situation.

I’ve seen enough of this

I watched 2 nights worth

Same R126. I didn't realize the episode I watched in the last month or so was a precursor to this new multi-part documentary. Now that I have watched all of the episodes of the newer one, I have to say that Wendy is nuts and is in need for 24/7 nursing, probably in some kind of home. I am skeptical of the staff around her throughout the documentary, and frankly am unsure of her own family's trustworthiness, save her sister who seems genuine.

More crap happening to Wendy - seen on today's Yahoo News:

1)  The IRS is coming for her - they put a lien on her NYC apartment for over half a million dollars in unpaid taxes from 2019 and 2021.   2) The ex-husband is going back to court to obtain 2 years of spousal support money he feels he is still owed.  This punkass will not stop trying to put his fingers back into Wendy's purse.

Maybe the Guardianship place will get a good lawyer and put her assets into a trust or say that her funds will be needed for her future care, then freeze that male golddigger out for good.

There was a recent story detailing some things happening with Wendy and family. Here's some highlights:

Wendy Williams’ extravagant New York City penthouse is off the market. The former talk show host’s 2,400 square foot property in the Financial District, which was purchased in July 2021 for $4.5 million, was sold by her guardian on Friday for $3.75 million, according to records accessed by The Post.

The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home boasts a terrace overlooking the Hudson River, as well as floor-to-ceiling windows. The condo overlooks the Hudson River. It features a luxurious terrace; it boasts more than 2,400 square feet.

Wendy Williams’ guardian demands Kevin Hunter return $112K after he was ‘overpaid’ in divorce. He hired a forensic accountant to go over Wendy's finances in a bid to find out where her money is going and to prove that he's still owed money in their alimony settlement.

Wendy Williams’ son, Kevin Hunter Jr., served with eviction notice from luxe Miami apartment. Lastly, Wendy Williams’ guardian claims A+E Networks exploited talk show host in new legal filing

There are many people closer to me with mental issues. The world is full of them. This isn't news in my book. I can't care about someone just because they once were on a bad TV show.