Wendy Williams receives treatment for cognitive problems

Entertainment

By Michael Starr

Former talk show host Wendy Williams is in an unnamed facility to treat cognitive problems and has very little contact with her family. according to people.

Williams, 59, star of the upcoming Lifetime docuseries “Where’s Wendy Williams?”, talks to her sister and niece, but only if she calls them, since they don’t know where she’s being treated.

“I talked to her yesterday and I talk to her very regularly when she comes to me,” said her sister, Wanda Finnie. “She is, from what I understand, in an environment of well-being and healing.”

“Where is Wendy Williams?”, which will air in four parts on Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m., shows Williams in the midst of alcohol addiction and struggling with her mental health, memory and ability to communicate effectively, according to People.

He is under the care of a court-appointed legal guardian who oversees his finances and health decisions.

“We can’t communicate with her, but she can communicate with us,” Finnie told People. “And she is in a place of emotional healing.

“She’s not the person you see in this movie,” he said of the Lifetime documentary.

Williams’ niece Alex Finnie, executive producer of “Where’s Wendy Williams?” — She told People that she is proud of Williams “for taking control of her narrative, because my aunt has always been a very public person and has been an open book, and we have all seen the images in the last few months and really few years. of what she’s been like in a spiral… So for her to really put her voice here and take ownership of what happened, of where she is currently… I think she’s powerful.”

“I don’t know what’s working, but I do know that when she approached me, she was a noticeably different person than what we see in that documentary,” Wanda said.

Alex added: “It sounds really cool. Listening to my aunt now in terms of how clear she is, how focused she is on the importance of family and reality in terms of facing and understanding where she is physically, mentally and emotionally, it’s like a 180 degree turn. ”.

Williams hosted the highly rated “Wendy Williams Show” from 2009 to 2022, when she left amid erratic behavior and multiple health issues.

In late June 2022, Williams revealed to TMZ that she lost approximately 95% of feeling in her swollen feet due to her battle with lymphedema while battling Graves’ disease, an immune disorder that causes an overproduction of thyroid hormones.

Williams first went public with his Graves diagnosis in 2018, after faint in the air during an October 2017 live taping (to which he later returned and finished the show).

In April 2019, Williams filed for divorce from her husband of 22 years, Kevin Hunter, 49, amid revelations that she was expecting a baby with her longtime lover, Sharina Hudson.

“The Wendy Williams Show” was replaced by “Sherri,” hosted by Sherri Shepherd, which airs at 10 a.m. weekdays on WNYW/Channel 5.