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Wendy Williams has always been mess—but she usually was the first person to tell you as much. After all, who else but Wendy could executive produce her own Lifetime TV special, “Wendy Williams: What A Mess,” and follow that up with a movie dramatizing her struggles with addiction, a cheating husband, and all the public (sometimes literal) fallout in between.
Now after several years out of the spotlight, a new two-part Lifetime documentary on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 promises to take audiences behind the scenes and reveal exactly what has been ailing Wendy as she struggles to get back on her feet.
“I have no money,” Wendy is heard saying in the documentary, alluding to the rumors of her being in a financial guardianship. “And I’m going to tell you something, if if happens to me it can happen to you.”And just as quickly as a trailer for the doc went up, it was taken down. But the internet is forever and clips from the trailer have already been circulating in anticipation on X, formerly known as Twitter.
As much as her eponymous “The Wendy Williams Show” went out with a whimper—and Tamron Hall, Sherri Shepherd (as potentially the next Oprah) and Jennifer Hudson now vying for her target audience—the absence of Wendy’s directness has left a big hole in daytime TV and an even bigger hole in Black culture.
Make no mistake, Wendy’s larger-than-life personality was absolutely edited down and formatted to fit mainstream TV. Yet even as she balanced her newfound marketability against her past as a radio shock jock, she always kept Black culture a focal point of the day’s “hot topics,” and in many ways Black culture was better for it.
Will you be watching the documentary?