Is Wendy Williams really okay? Staffers are reportedly worried about the talk show host’s health after she collapsed on live television.
Wendy suffered a frightening health scare during her live Halloween show on Tuesday (Oct. 31). While dressed as the Statue of Liberty, she became overheated in her costume and began to slur her words, shake, stagger, and eventually fainted in front of her studio audience and viewers watching on TV.
This clip of Wendy Williams though ?? I've never seen anyone pass out like this before ? pic.twitter.com/WB2QKk2wtF
— ? Sal ? (@xosalxox) October 31, 2017
Though she was able to carry on with the rest of the show, Page Six reports some Wendy Williams Show staffers are seriously concerned about her health.
“Wendy has become very thin recently, and the show staff wonders if she is under a lot of personal stress,” a source told the publication.
They also wonder if the scary incident is linked to a September report that Wendy’s husband and business partner, Kevin Hunter, has allegedly been cheating on her for the past 10 years.
A year-long investigation by the Daily Mail claims Hunter leads a “double life” and is in a relationship with 32-year-old massage therapist Sharina Hudson. He allegedly even purchased a $765,000 home for her just miles away from the home he shares with Wendy.
However, Wendy and Hunter have both denied the allegations. A spokesperson for Wendy simply described Hudson as a family friend and defended his client’s marriage. “One plus one does not equal three,” he said. “This woman is a friend but there is no ‘there’ there.”
It has also been reported that Wendy fired several Wendy Williams Show employees for leaking the story to the Daily Mail.
Wendy returned to her purple chair today (November 1st), assuring the audience that she is perfectly fine despite collapsing on air:
“No, that was not a joke. I don’t want to fall, I’m a tall woman and it’s long way down” Williams began. She described how she felt a hot, a little dizzy, and “weird” during the commercial break before she fainted. To the people who noticed she was reaching up for head, Williams says, she says it’s because she promised herself two things: “First of all, this is never gonna happen again,” she said. “Second of all, if it’s going down, it’s got to be as cute as I can make it, so I’m going down with the crown.”
She says paramedics behind the scenes told her not to move but that she wanted to finish out the show, later saying her staff treated her like “Diana Ross.” After the show was over, she says, she was “low on hydrogen” so paramedics “filled her with electrolytes mixed with regular water” but everything was reportedly fine. “I’m a 53-year-old middle-aged woman going what middle-aged women go through, if you know what I mean!” she told the audience. “The costume got hot, right before I passed out I felt like I was in the middle of a campfire.”
She added, to the haters: “For people who thought I was stroking out, trying to get this purple chair next, nope. I’m here for a long time.”
So that’s it people: According to Wendy, she’s just a 53-year-old woman going through what 53-year-old women go through! What do you guys think?
