Almost a year after she left daytime television, Wendy Williams is ready to share her story in a new Lifetime documentary.
The network released a heartbreaking trailer for Where Is Wendy Williams?, per TooFab, that shows Williams struggling with life under her guardianship. The trailer shows her surrounded by her loved ones, including her son, Kevin Hunter Jr., and her sister, Wanda.
“I have no money and let me tell you, if it can happen to me, it can happen to you,” Williams says in the trailer.
The documentary appears to be a vulnerable look into Williams’ life since leaving television and being put under a court-ordered guardianship. Her family expresses concern for her multiple times throughout the trailer, saying that she has been surrounded “by yes people” and could be at risk under her new guardian.
“I feel like the guardian has not done a good job of protecting my mom,” her son comments at one point.
At another, her sister tearfully says, “I think that the guardianship system is broken. We are her family and you tell me that I’m not capable of taking care of my sister. What would you do? What should I do?”
The trailer also appears to imply that Williams is still struggling with drinking after having gone to rehab last June, on top of other possible health issues.
“Anyone can tell this is not just alcohol, this is something more,” a loved one says in the trailer.
The Wendy Williams Show came to an end in 2022 after she took a hiatus to focus on her health. At the time, she was reportedly struggling with addiction, as well as Grave’s disease and lymphedema.
A series of guest hosts took over her show until it ultimately ended in June 2022, with Sherri Shepard set to inherit her time slot on the network.
Williams was placed under a court-ordered guardianship after her bank, Wells Fargo, argued that she was “incapacitated” and the “victim of undue influence and financial exploitation.”
At the time, Williams accused a financial advisor at the bank of lying to keep her from accessing her accounts. During a 2022 appearance on Good Morning America, the daytime host expressed that she fully expected to return to television.
“When people want control of [your] accounts, they say anything, including something crazy like that about me,” she said.
Where Is Wendy Williams? is expected to premiere on Lifetime Feb. 24 and 25.
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