{"id":92359,"date":"2024-02-25T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92359"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:03:49","slug":"where-is-wendy-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/02\/25\/where-is-wendy-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Wendy Williams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am certainly no medical doctor \u2013 although I\u2019ve slept with more than my share.&nbsp; But I\u2019m gonna tackle this <strong>Wendy Williams <\/strong>situation.&nbsp; Full disclosure \u2013 a family friend had frontal lobe dementia, so while not exactly what Wendy has, this is something I know a bit about.&nbsp; The causes of dementia are unclear, but frontal lobe issues are exacerbated by alcohol and drug abuse.&nbsp; Last week, Williams allegedly went public with a diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal degeneration.&nbsp; I say \u201callegedly\u201d, because I have no idea who is speaking for Wendy.&nbsp; Unless I see her say it herself, I don\u2019t know \u2013 and even if I see her say it, I still ain\u2019t so sure.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, <em>Lifetime <\/em>aired the documentary, <strong><em>Where is Wendy Williams?<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Many people have criticized the network for airing this show.&nbsp; Well, that offends me \u2013 because Wendy signed the contract for this and is an executive producer, which means she also got paid handsomely.&nbsp; I presume so did her son, <strong>Kevin Jr<\/strong>. \u2013 he\u2019s also listed as an executive producer and participated.&nbsp; I\u2019m not sure if <strong>Kevin Sr<\/strong>. got paid, but I bet money exchanged hands.&nbsp; Yes, you might say Wendy\u2019s not in her right mind to make those decisions.&nbsp; Except she signed this contract pre-2020.&nbsp; Back then, she had a three-project deal with <em>Lifetime<\/em>.&nbsp; The first was a dramatization of her life, <strong><em>Wendy Williams \u2013 The Movie<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; At the same time, she did a documentary called, <strong><em>Wendy Williams \u2013 What a Mess!<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; This latest doc fulfills her contract \u2013 and is also a mess.&nbsp; It should be noted that it began shooting just after her show got cancelled (June 2022) and ended when she was admitted to an unknown \u201cfacility\u201d (April 2023).&nbsp; As to the content, that could be another full column.&nbsp; While I would like to hope I\u2019m wrong, I think we all know how this story ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am certainly no medical doctor \u2013 although I\u2019ve slept with more than my share.&nbsp; But I\u2019m gonna tackle this Wendy Williams situation.&nbsp; Full disclosure \u2013 a family friend had frontal lobe dementia, so while not exactly what Wendy has, this is something I know a bit about.&nbsp; The causes of dementia are unclear, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92361,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92359\/revisions\/92361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}