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Wendy Williams is receiving treatment astatine a wellness installation soon aft her 22-year-old son, Kevin, spoke candidly astir his concerns for her intelligence and carnal health. “Wendy is astatine a installation doing her champion to beryllium her best. She’s taking it time by day,” her manager, Will Selby, told Entertainment Tonight connected Wednesday, June 7. He past critiqued the media’s sum of the 58-year-old former tv host. “And that’s different thing, too, does anybody adjacent inquire like, ‘How’s she doing? Does anyone adjacent care,” Will said. “I consciousness similar everyone conscionable puts retired antagonistic accusation astir her and that’s the focus.”
He added, “Why don’t we conscionable halt for a infinitesimal and conscionable say, ‘Hey, however is she? Is she doing OK today?’ Why is that not the focus? Why isn’t that what we’re talking astir connected a regular basis?”
Wendy Williams smiles astatine her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremonial successful 2019 (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)
Kevin, the 1 lad Wendy shares with her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, said helium was acrophobic astir his mother’s drinking problems and the radical successful her beingness during a June 5 interrogation with The U.S. Sun. “I cognize the complaint that she uses intoxicant isn’t similar a mean idiosyncratic and we’ve spoken astir it. I’ve said, ‘This is 1 happening wherever you don’t cognize however to attack it normally, and that’s fine,'” helium noted. “And it’s gotten to a constituent wherever yes, it could person that effect that it mightiness beryllium fatal due to the fact that it affects her mode worse than a mean person, since it stays successful her system.”
“There are a batch of radical who are precise alert that determination is an contented with her drinking, and however that contented whitethorn beryllium helped, but I deliberation these radical are taking vantage of it portion allowing it to play retired to marque it look similar they aren’t causing the issue,” helium added. Kevin claimed that his mother’s assemblage has occupation processing alcohol, which makes her inclination to portion perchance dangerous.
He besides slammed Wendy’s interior ellipse for allegedly utilizing her for monetary gains alternatively of focusing connected what’s champion for her. “I cognize determination are each sorts of things happening that I cognize successful her close mind, she would ne'er hold to,” helium explained to The U.S. Sun. “As hard arsenic it is seeing her being taken vantage of, I cognize that if I’m making definite she, arsenic a person, is okay, that is the important thing. Because eventually, she’s going to recognize the craziness that’s been going on.”
Wendy Williams and her son, Kevin, airs astatine her Walk of Fame ceremonial (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)
Kevin claimed helium specifically saw his parent get utilized when she was successful rehab for her alcoholism betwixt Aug. and Sept. 2022. “[Her manager and jeweler] had her successful a presumption wherever she was agreeing to a batch that she shouldn’t have. When I heard that, that turned maine off,” helium recalled. “In trying to effort to cognize what everyone’s volition is astir her, astatine first, I was like, good this is the squad she wants to person around.”
“But erstwhile I heard that she was agreeing to worldly astir her rehab, I thought, ‘Well okay, they are taking advantage,'” Kevin continued. “I consciousness that erstwhile it comes to radical wanting to ‘help’ her, a batch of it is coming from a stance of, okay, she’s unsocial now. Let’s effort to spot however we tin marque her enactment the mode we privation her to act, oregon if we tin benignant of power the complaint astatine which she’s handling herself.” He besides accused the radical astir her of “enabling” her intoxicant abuse.
However, Wendy’s manager Will denied Kevin’s claims successful a connection to Entertainment Tonight on June 6. “Taking vantage of her for what? To get what? To bash what? I’m not present to brag, but I was doing conscionable good earlier Wendy came on and I insisted connected helping her due to the fact that she requested my assistance,” helium clapped backmost earlier speaking of her court-appointed guardianship. “Wendy is nether a guardianship. Everything that she does gets approved by the guardianship. A court-appointed guardianship. So, nary one, adjacent if they wanted to instrumentality vantage of her — everything has to get approved by that court. So, immoderate benignant of concern dealings that we do, Wendy, myself, and anyone — we person to get the guardianship to motion disconnected connected it. So however tin anyone instrumentality vantage of her?”
He past spoke straight to Kevin. “If your parent was adjacent decease would the archetypal happening you bash is telephone an online publication?” helium questioned. “Okay. So, that’s each I person to accidental astir that… I usually don’t bash this. I’m lone speaking connected behalf of my client, and I’m not trying to person a statement with Kevin. You cognize he’s a young man, and honestly, I consciousness similar he’s gone done a lot. He’s astir apt dealing with a lot. I person a lad that’s the aforesaid property arsenic him, and sometimes you conscionable marque mediocre decisions, successful my opinion, and I’m conscionable speaking to my son.”
Will concluded, “I’m not present to beryllium combative astir immoderate allegations helium has. He’s entitled to his opinion. I’m conscionable trying to accidental that us, arsenic adults, let’s beryllium liable and let’s really utilize immoderate communal sense.”
As fans know, Wendy has been successful and retired of assorted attraction centers to manage various wellness issues implicit the years, including her rehab stint successful 2022 and another successful 2021. Her wellness issues seemingly began successful 2017, erstwhile she fainted during a taping of her syndicated speech show, The Wendy Williams Show. After a semipermanent lack from the show, it officially ended successful 2021. Some of the wellness issues Wendy has publically spoken astir see Graves’ disease and lymphedema.
Wendy seemed to beryllium connected the emergence past August erstwhile she announced her caller podcast, The Wendy Experience. It has yet to instrumentality off.
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