The Hollywood Reporter Profile picture
The Hollywood Reporter is the premier destination & most widely trusted resource for entertainment news, reviews, videos & more.

Aug 17, 2022, 6 tweets

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

Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.

A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.

Keep scrolling