The Queen of Hot Topics finally reported on herself.
Following the Saturday premiere of “Wendy Williams: The Movie” on Lifetime, Wendy Williams talked about her incredible and often chaotic life in the documentary “Wendy Williams: What a Mess!”
While it was packed with her signature sass and attitude, she also offered more than just a cryptic phrase about her life and ex-husband, Kevin Hunter.
“This has been a year out of hell in a good way,” Williams, 56, opened the documentary while tied to her lymphedema machine.
Munching on Doritos and caviar, which she described as a “ party in your ghetto mouth, ” Williams used her own words to describe everything from her countless miscarriages to learning about Hunter’s new baby.
Here are the nine biggest revelations:
Williams’ struggles with her weight and subsequent eating disorder
Williams’s parents, Shirley Skinner Williams and Thomas Williams Sr., often criticized the future radio and TV host about her weight and forced her to weigh herself every day.
“Wendy is overweight,” her mother, who has since passed away, bluntly recalled her daughter’s childhood.
Her parents packed Wendy tuna and mustard with some grapes for lunch while she was in first grade, but she would secretly buy ice cream and other snacks. To manipulate the scale while weighing, she leaned to the side.
Ultimately, the criticism took its toll and she developed bulimia. One night her brother Tommy caught her, but that didn’t stop her. She eventually stopped throwing up because she read in a tabloid that the teeth of a famous star were starting to rot from the vomit.
“I am a toothinista,” said Wendy in the documentary.
Her interview with Whitney Houston was the turning point in her career
In a now legendary 2003 interview, Wendy spoke over the phone to an outraged Houston before her radio show about her drug abuse, Bobby Brown’s struggles with the law and how it affects their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, and more.
The tense conversation revealed a side of the legendary singer that no one had seen before, and the interview catapulted Wendy’s career.
Unbeknownst to many, what was considered a success for everyone was a dark time for the presenter of a daytime talk show.
“I was overwhelmed with overwhelm,” said Wendy.
Sherrick allegedly raped Wendy
During Wendy’s press tour prior to the Lifetime premieres, Wendy claimed that artist Sherrick “raped” her. The widow of the R&B singer, who died in 1999, told Page Six that the claims were “painful.”
“Sherrick was a beautiful man, a genius with an angelic voice,” said Lynne Conner Smith. “We have three wonderful children. This is quite painful not only for us, but also for his nieces and siblings. “
It was a surprising choice for Wendy to reveal the identity of her alleged rapist, which she wouldn’t do in the documentary because he’s a one-hit wonder.
Wendy nearly died of her drug addiction
Wendy began snorting cocaine as a means of staying awake on her nighttime radio shifts. She would do it five days a week for years, but eventually the habit hit her.
“It wasn’t a big deal and no big deal became a big deal,” she said in the documentary.
One night she passed out and hit her head in the radio station bathroom when no one was there to help her.
“Actually, it’s a miracle I’m sitting here now,” she said of the accident.
Wendy’s pregnancy is struggling
Wendy suffered numerous pregnancy losses with Hunter before they got married.
During her first pregnancy with Hunter, she miscarried after five weeks. When Wendy became pregnant again, she lost her second child at five months. Feeling that it was God’s plan for them to get married, Hunter and Wendy secretly married without telling their family until after the ceremony.
Tragically, Wendy suffered a second pregnancy loss at five months and, as she sobbed, remembered giving birth to a stillborn baby.
“I don’t know that many people who could go through what she was going through then,” said Wendy’s sister, Wanda.
She eventually gave birth to Kevin Hunter Jr. in 2000.
Wendy’s love of plastic surgery
Longtime fans know that Wendy is no stranger to going under the knife for a pinch / tuck, but she got incredibly candid about everything she did, why she did it, and when she did it.
During the documentary, Wendy revealed that she had told Hunter, who she described as ‘hustler hot’ on their first or second date, that she intended to get breast implants and liposuction – honesty seemed to be the best policy for her from day one. his – a few months later, and he supported.
A few years later after the birth of their son, Kevin Hunter Jr., Wendy Hunter caught cheating and decided to improve her body, so she went for a tummy tuck and more liposuction.
Kevin Hunter becomes “very controlling” and reportedly verbally abusive
Hunter, who managed Williams ‘career throughout their marriage, began cutting people out of Williams’ life, including longtime friend and fellow DJ Mister Cee, who appeared in the documentary. Former Williams producer Arthur Evans said Hunter became “very controlling,” claiming he was feared by many.
Ultimately, Hunter was banned from Wendy’s radio station for allegedly verbally abusing Williams and the radio management.
Williams also revealed that her longtime security guard, James, was “fired” because Hunter thought he and Wendy were getting too close.
“I was an emotionally abused woman,” she said in the documentary, “and it was horribly abused.”
Wendy stated definitively that Hunter never physically abused her.
“He’s not a woman beater,” she said. “He’s just a strange man with a lot of problems.”
Wendy broke her shoulder in 2018. At the time, rumors circulated that Hunter was the real cause of the injury, but in the documentary, Wendy claimed she fell and broke her arm “on my own”.
Hunter attended every production meeting on the “Wendy Williams Show,” but one time he was late, so Wendy started without him. When Hunter appeared, he broke the glass office table in rage.
“We were partly in denial and partly hoping it would work out,” Debmar-Mercury co-president Ira Bernstein said of Hunter.
Halloween slump in the air
On Halloween 2017, Wendy, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, passed out on live TV.
Her spokesman at the time said it was a result of dehydration. In the documentary, she didn’t say what caused it, but she did say that it was when she decided to forgive Hunter for his infidelity up to that point, because he came in and picked her up as a ‘maiden in need’ and encouraged her to finish the show.
Hunter’s infidelity
When Wendy first found out that Hunter had lived with Sharina Hudson in a house just 14 miles from their family home in New Jersey, Wendy came to the house and sealed their mailbox and painted it with “Kevin + Wendy 4 Ever!” ” on the garage door.
Though devastated, Wendy was willing to see past the alleged affair until one day she saw Hudson in her Livingston, New Jersey, driveway taking photos for some unknown reason. Wendy looked closer and saw a baby bump.
Wendy drank three bottles of wine before her husband got home and lost it.
“I went ham,” she said of her interaction with Hunter.
She began to drink more and more, and Hunter first sent her to rehab in Florida and then checked her into the sober-living facility in Queens when she had to resume filming. Williams said she was clean about the austere house only because the paparazzi had followed her.
What fans didn’t know, however, was that her drivers to and from the ‘halfway house’ were ‘terrible people’, who disconnected the phone line from her office and did not want to connect her to the outside world in any way.
She also revealed that during her stay her father had a stroke for a week and her mother each other for a week.
After she got well and left the sober facility, Williams knew she had to file for divorce.
After her divorce, Williams sold their New Jersey home and moved to her “ bachelorette block ” in New York City, where she swims every day.
“I love my building,” she said of the Financial District apartment. “It makes me feel worthy.”
A Hunter representative told Lifetime that Williams’ claims were false or inaccurate.