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The View's Sunny Hostin says Wendy Williams' family is desperate to 'get closer' to the TV host amid her battle with dementia - as she admits it was 'painful' to watch her friend in 'throes of her addiction' during Lifetime doc


Sunny, 55, watched the documentary - which shows Wendy admitting to downing a bottle of vodka - with the star's niece because she 'wanted to understand what happened' to her friend.

The mother-of-two defended Wendy's relatives and stressed that the TV host was the one who signed a deal to make three documentaries 'before she was incapacitated', and also questioned the legal guardianship that she is currently under. 'She wanted her family to be involved in it and it was supposed to be a show about her comeback, but she was in the throes of addiction and I think we also need to remember that the pandemic happened, that her husband had an affair and had a baby with another woman and they got divorced.' As the women discussed how the documentary might have helped families who 'may be going through this kind of crisis', Alyssa Farah Griffin was keen to share her thoughts but was careful not to criticize Wendy's relatives, whilst opening up about her own sibling.

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