Inside the final days at #TheWendyWilliamsShow
Wendy Williams was one of daytime’s most successful personalities. Then, one day she was gone. Now, insiders reveal for the first time what really happened thr.cm/eVGiTxS
Executives Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein reveal a series of heartbreaking conversations with Wendy Williams where they’d have to explain to her again and again, right up until finale day, that her show was ending thr.cm/eVGiTxS
At the top of season 13, Wendy Williams joined a staff-wide Zoom call where she is said to have been rambling and increasingly incoherent. “People were sort of freaked out,” Debmar-Mercury’s Lonnie Burstein says thr.cm/eVGiTxS
Multiple sources say Wendy Williams was in and out of hospitals last year, as doctors tried to determine why she was experiencing symptoms including nonlinear speech, memory loss and even hallucinations: “We don’t know truly what the issue is” thr.cm/eVGiTxS
Prior to Wendy Williams' exit, show sources reveal they found alcohol bottles in ceiling tiles and other "weird places," and her sobriety on-air was in question on "at least 25" occasions thr.cm/eVGiTxS
Producers at #TheWendyWilliamsShow grappled with how to say goodbye; what was never seriously considered was bringing Wendy Williams back for the final show thr.cm/eVGiTxS
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