- Wendy Williams’ son, Kevin Hunter Jr., 23, revealed for the first time his mother is grappling with alcohol-induced dementia and was personally told by doctors
- Her care team stated the dementia diagnosis occurred in 2023 with the news only being made public last week, just before the documentary aired
- The film had set out to chronicle Williams’ comeback in 2022 but had to halt filming in April 2023 due to her entering a facility for cognitive issues
Wendy Williams‘ son confirmed that his mother is suffering from alcohol-induced dementia for the very first time during Sunday night’s Lifetime documentary ‘Where is Wendy Williams?’
Kevin Hunter Jr., 23, revealed doctors have told him that alcohol had begun to affect ‘her headspace and her brain.’
‘I was able to really learn more about things going on with my mother internally. They basically said that because she was drinking so much, it was starting to affect her headspace and her brain. So, I think they said it was alcohol-induced dementia.’
The diagnosis by doctors goes some way in explaining Williams’ often unsociable and erratic behavior which, in the intrusive new documentary, has showcased her burping, sleeping the day away in bed with bottles of alcohol by her side and lashing out at over the slightest transgressions.
Williams was first told of her alcohol-related brain damage diagnosis years earlier in 2019 during her time at a rehab center in Delray Beach although her care team have said her’ dementia diagnosis only happened in 2023.
Williams’ niece Alex Finnie also revealed she was told of her aunts diagnosis in fall 2022.
‘All I know is that it was dementia. You look back at little things, and it’s a slow roll. It’s little things like, “When’s your birthday again?’ You know? ‘What’s his name again?” -But after seeing my aunt and really spending time with her in a state where she’s in right now, I quickly realized that things were just not normal. It’s heartbreaking.
‘When it’s come to my aunt’s dementia, there are three things that didn’t help her: divorce, the pandemic and then losing my grandmother,’ Alex explains.
In one of the more shocking incidents of the documentary, which details her struggles with alcohol abuse and mental health in recent years, Williams could be dining out with her publicist Shawn Zanotti.
Eating at a restaurant overlooking Los Angeles, Williams could be seen consuming several glasses of vodka with her lunch, before openly burping out loud, on camera.
Following her lunch, Williams and Zanotti head to Universal Studios in Los Angeles to pitch a new talk show as part of the star’s ‘bounce back’.
NBC Universal declined to comment on her meeting with the producers.
Williams seemingly loses all sense of where she is as she can be heard stressing how she doesn’t want the show to be filmed ‘here in Miami’ – despite her being in LA.
When asked by producers if there was any concern over the amount of alcohol she was consuming, Zanotti replies: ‘Wendy knows her limits.’
Other family members would beg to differ including her son and nephew Travis Finnie who openly declare Williams ‘has a drinking problem.’
The devastating diagnosis was made public towards the end of last week, days before the airing of the four-and-a-half hour documentary.
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