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TV's ghoulish new low: Dementia-hit Wendy Williams is reduced to a sideshow freak as relatives crawl into her fading spotlight. And, blasts MAUREEN CALLAHAN, it's a heartless and cynical violation even by Hollywood's dirty standards
Wendy Williams built a career saying terrible things, reveling in other people's misfortune, castigating celebrities even as she sought to be one...
The documentary was a last-ditch attempt to salvage her reputation, shredded after a lengthy public meltdown involving heavy substance abuse; an on-air collapse, while dressed as the Statue of Liberty; her husband's lengthy extramarital affair, which produced a child; being photographed passed out drunk in a Louis Vuitton store; a grim stint in a run-down communal sober house; and reports that staffers on her show often found liquor bottles stashed all over the set, even under the ceiling panels. She had an unlikely fan in John Oliver, who called her 'an oasis of truth in a world full of lies' — even though she had outed a famous rapper's wife as having cancer (she hadn't told some family members yet) or other celebrities as gay, or mocked their looks, weight, lack of intelligence. Now her sister Wanda and her niece are spilling to People about her addictions and medical issues — and it's all timed to this documentary, which stopped filming in April 2023 after the crew discovered Williams at home, eyes rolled back in her head.
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