Wendy Williams Enters Rehab For ‘Overall Health Issues’ As Publicist Asks For ‘Prayers’

Wendy Williams has entered rehab to “focus connected her health”, according to a property released obtained by Entertainment Tonight. “She is taking immoderate clip to absorption connected her wellness and wellness arsenic she prepares for a large comeback for the adjacent level successful her vocation with The Wendy Experience Podcast,” the merchandise read. “Ms. Williams is being treated by a squad of immoderate of the champion doctors successful the world. We inquire for your prayers and good wishes during this time.”

Wendy has experienced a myriad of wellness issues implicit the years, which yet forced her to measurement distant from her fashionable syndicated speech show, The Wendy Williams Show, successful 2021. Some of the wellness issues she cited included Graves’ illness and lymphedema. Her wellness issues look to person begun erstwhile she fainted during a 2017 taping of her show, and accrued arsenic clip went by. Wendy has besides been unfastened astir her struggles with substance maltreatment successful the past and has checked into sober-living facilities before. She besides went done a very nationalist divorce successful 2019.

Wendy’s speech amusement ended successful June of this twelvemonth with Wendy’s full-time replacement Sheri Shepherd astatine the helm. Sherri Shepherd’s ain speech show, SHERRI, premiered connected Sept. 12.

Wendy Williams checked into rehab arsenic she promotes her upcoming podcast (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)

The notation of her vocation comeback came a fewer months aft the erstwhile speech amusement big announced her caller podcast The Wendy Experience. In the Instagram clip, which has since been deleted, she said “Co-hosts, I’m celebrated and I’ll beryllium backmost — spot me,” according to PEOPLE In the caption, she added, “TRUST ME I volition beryllium BACK! #wendyexperiencepodcast #welcome #back #stay #positive#cohost #nyc.”

At the opening of August, Wendy’s rep spoke to PEOPLE with a affirmative outlook connected Wendy’s aboriginal arsenic a podcast big and mentioned the value of her health. “Wendy is excited astir everything caller successful her beingness and her main precedence is her wellness and shooting her archetypal occurrence of her podcast,” they said. “That’s the absorption close now.”

HollywoodLife has reached retired to Wendy’s typical astir the reports connected her entranceway to rehab and is awaiting a response.