Wendy Williams is returning to television. Two years after canceling her hit talk show, the former “The Wendy Williams Show” host and her family are addressing the speculation regarding Williams’ health and cognitive abilities in a new Lifetime documentary, “Where Is Wendy Williams?” coming out Feb. 24, 2024.
In 2022, a film crew set out to chronicle the next stage of Williams’ career and her plans to release a new podcast, but the two-part documentary’s tone shifts as Williams’ health takes a lead role, according to People.
By 2023, documentary production was forced to stop and pivot when Williams entered a treatment facility for “cognitive issues” and her family lost contact with her, People reported.
“My mom has done a great job making it seem like everything is OK always,” Williams’ son, Kevin Hunter Jr., said in the film’s trailer. “But, in reality, there’s something wrong going on.” At one point in the documentary, Williams’ driver wonders if her’ memory is faltering, according to People.
Since canceling her daytime talk show, Williams, 59, has kept relatively quiet about her wellbeing despite mounting rumors. But come Saturday, viewers will get updates on her health and how she got here. Until then, here’s what we know about Williams’ health:
Williams revealed she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease in 2018
In February 2018, the talk show host announced she’d be taking a three-week break from “The Wendy Williams Show” because she had been diagnosed with Graves’ disease. About a week before, she’d canceled several shows due to experiencing flu-like symptoms. At the time, a rep for her show told TODAY.com in a statement that she’d had Graves’ disease for “many years.”
“Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that stimulates the receptors on the thyroid gland to make more thyroid hormones,” Dr. Deena Gupta-Adimoolam, a specialist in…
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