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How America's bitchiest talk show host got bitten back: Wendy Williams earned $10m a season to mercilessly attack A-listers and even out them as gay. Then voracious addictions left her broke... and now her weary family reveal their fears for the worst
As a woman who's shown no mercy when it comes to dissecting the celebrity scandals of others, she would surely be the first to observe that she's seen better days...
The financial guardianship which a New York judge placed on her in 2022 - after she was determined to be an 'incapacitated person' – was the culmination of myriad problems including a decades-long cocaine addiction, alcoholism, and complications from Graves' disease – an immune system disorder. By 1990, she had a morning show on a New York's Kiss FM - the first of a string of Big Apple and Philadelphia music stations where her scurrilous gossiping about celebrities and rappers – her specialty was outing macho performers as gay – started fierce feuds and drew demands from the likes of Bill Cosby and music-mogul Russell Simmons that she be taken off-air. In fact, she had her most infamous on-air spat, with Whitney Houston, in 2003 after she grilled the superstar about her troubled marriage to rapper Bobby Brown, her sex life and her breast implants, which Williams indelicately compared to 'two baseballs on a stick'.
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