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Wendy Williams says she wanted to divorce her ex-husband Kevin Hunter after 2 years into their 21-year marriage

Growing up, chances are you watched Wendy Williams dominate the radio airwaves then be rewarded with her own dominating t.v. show.

For 35 years, Wendy Williams took the media by storm, ending with her winning millions of hearts on her daytime talk show, “The Wendy Williams Show.”

Then in 2021 life at Wendy knew it came to a screeching halt. Not only did Wendy get divorced in 2021 but she was also rudely ousted from her talk show in 2022.

To speak her story, Williams let fans into her hot topic-filled life with a biopic movie called, “Wendy Williams: The Movie,” followed by her eponymous documentary, “What A Mess!”

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In both projects, the 56-year-old media mogul bares it all, sharing personal struggles that she’s faced throughout her life, including weight challenges that started as a child, cocaine addiction, alleged rape, several miscarriages, and her tumultuous relationship with her now ex-husband and former manager Kevin Hunter.

Wendy Knew She Married The Wrong Man But Kept Going

While her marriage began to publicly unravel several years ago due to alleged infidelity and abuse, Williams told Insider that privately she had been executing her divorce plans for nearly two decades. The two wed in 1997.

When asked at what point in her 21-year marriage she felt like her happiness had become compromised, Williams emphatically said, “the second year because that’s when I finally got successfully pregnant with [my son] young Kevin and gave birth to him.”

“I went into the delivery room knowing in my mind, ‘I’m planning my divorce,'” she continued. “Kevin was a serial cheat. He cheated when I dated him. He cheated when I married him. He cheated while I was on bed rest during the entire nine months of me being pregnant.”

Williams, who finalized her divorce from Hunter in 2019, claimed her ex cheated because he “got too comfortable.” But despite problems at home, Williams said she made a conscious decision to stay because of her now 20-year-old son, Kevin Hunter Jr.

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“I couldn’t [leave] because the bigger the talk show got, and the more I would look into my son’s eyes … the more I decided to give of myself and I figured I’d get it on the back end, so to speak,” the daytime talk show host, who’s set to remain on air until 2022, told Insider.

But after the two became estranged, Williams said she hoped to set a good example for her son.

The Wendy Williams Movie

“I prayed young Kevin would be smarter than his parents and that I would be able to execute the proper divorce and be the proper single mother,” she said.

Still, the talk show host said Hunter “will always be my friend because we must be civil to each other because we are Kevin’s parents.”

“I don’t regret meeting Kevin. I don’t regret falling in love. I don’t regret staying with him for all 25 years — 21 of them married,” Williams added.

Despite going through a very public divorce while filming, Williams was so committed to the authenticity of her biopic that she invited Hunter to travel to Vancouver where they were filming.

“He was definitely invited by me as well as Lifetime, with a promissory note from me that he would not be talked about in any other way, but my truth in the documentary and depicted in any other way but my truth in the movie,” she added.

Still, Lifetime confirmed to Insider that Hunter declined to participate.

As for moving on to her next phase of life now that her son is out of the home and away at college, Williams is wasting no time on getting exactly what she wants.

“At 56 years old, you don’t have too many more chances to get your life together. So, I will continue to be my own best friend until the day I die because only I know what’s best for me,” she said. “My [late] mother didn’t know what was best for me. My sister doesn’t know what’s best. You don’t know what’s best. My bosses never knew what’s best for me. Only I know what’s best for me.”

“I’m extremely happy that I’m still relevant enough that I’m able to come through some pretty … double doors and say, ‘How you doing?’ and still be young, fun, and pop culture relevant,” she added.

MOVIE LESSONS

I am just now watching the movie. Here are my thoughts.

One thing I’ve learned about relationships is that most women go 20 years in and out of relationships. Never respected, because they don’t have a consistent “good man.” But the woman who is married for 20-years, even if being cheated on, as long as the public thinks it’s all good, she’s covered and she wins.

Most men are irrelevant other than being a fake cover to get respect from the world. A woman needs to be covered in this world.

Everything you want is on the other side of FEAR. Wendy decided to stop living in fear and that took her a long way.

Drugs and alcohol make humans fearless. But the key to life is to be fearless in the arms of God. To walk past the fear with FAITH.

Wendy partied, but she still worked hard and never missed a day of work on her come-up.

Wendy didn’t give up on herself no matter what. She showed up, was persistent and created her own luck.

The thing about a man who cheats on you, is that as time goes on, he gets further and further away from you, the more successful you become, the more he needs to feed his ego… Eventually he cheats with the right woman and likes her enough to divorce you or completely stop caring about you, because she’s number one.

So if that’s the lifestyle you choose, I guess you’d better get ready.

Get ready to never give your whole heart. Get ready for when he’s done hiding anything. Get ready to be laughed at.

But I guess it’s better to live the dream for awhile than to never live it at all.

And despite all Kevin did to build Wendy up and tear her down, the minute she wasn’t covered by him, it was open season to cancel her.

And that’s why a woman must always choose a good man and jump ship to a new one when he’s not being good to her.

Men are temporary unless he’s treating you right.

You can’t be a superstar woman with a bad man.

Wendy’s story also reminds me to keep doing things that are in alignment with my heart. She, Kevin Samuels and Tasha K all took a certain path. That path doesn’t seem to end well.

However God bless Wendy Williams. Her business and come-up are extremely inspiring. No judgement. Just lessons.

BLESSINGS IN OTHES LESSONS

I ended up looking at Sharina’s instagram page and she only has 15,000 followers.

Noticed some people know the deal, and they still support her. But the thing is I realize I used to beat up on myself so much for this and that, when I’ve done everything by myself from the ground up.

A lot of us run circles around people who have access to way more than us and are more famous than us.

Despite the money and fame…. I used to beat myself up because I felt I should be further along. But God looks out for his kids. Many of you are doing great without being a celebrity, knowing a celebrity or having millions in the bank. Keep Going and realize how amazing you are.

And that’s my take on the Wendy Williams movie.

Wendy Williams’ Ex Kevin Hunter Says She Wasn’t Given Enough Time To Recover From His Infidelity And Her Health Issues

Watching how the Wendy Williams show was snatched off the air, is something I never imagined that I would see. Neither did Williams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter.

is revealing more about why he believes The Wendy Williams Show went off the air, and he includes himself as one of the reasons.

In a recent interview with YouTube personality Choke No Joke, Hunter said that the production company behind The Wendy Williams Show, Debmar-Mercury, was not interested in supporting Williams after her health became even more problematic.

“[The show] ended because of the negligence of her production company in regards to realizing how severe her health was,” he said. “And when you’re in a situation where [you’re] just busy trying to divide and conquer, [you] remove something instead of focusing on what’s really going on.”

“I mean everybody unfortunately got a chance to see her pass out on national television and it was mortifying and you would think after that happened they would have put certain things in place,” he continued. “In some sort of department to deal with any kind of crisis or any kind of help she may really need.”

Hunter said that the reason Williams passed out in that now-infamous clip from her Halloween episode was “a mixture of…her thyroid condition, being overworked, dehydration, and just not taking care of yourself.”

“Now luckily, soon after that, with the proper hydration and you know, getting her heart rate stable, she was fine,” he continued. “But it was a scary sign then, and like I said, you would think that from then, they would put certain things in place in case it gets worse.”

He also said it was “disheartening” for him to see so many guest hosts take over Williams’ purple chair when she was out tending to her health during the final season, calling it “a race for the seat.”

“It was real disheartening because most of the people would not reach out to see if you’re doing good,” he said. “When it becomes a race for the seat, you can’t take it. In any other business, you can’t just remove something that was great and just put something else there.”

Hunter stated that when he was working as Williams’ manager, he would make sure to protect Williams’ position by getting people in who would “fill that void properly,” such as suggesting Williams’ friend Nick Cannon host during a period of time when Williams was away during a prior season.

But what’s the most interesting is that Hunter addressed his part in the deterioration of Williams’ mental health. Toward the end of the show’s run, news came to light of Hunter’s relationship with his longtime mistress, including the birth of a child outside of Hunter’s marriage. Hunter said that Williams didn’t have enough time to process the changes in their relationship or focus on her sobriety.

“In a perfect world, Debmar-Mercury, in the midst of my situation with having a baby and getting through a divorce, with her situation of coming out of a sober house…they did not take or give her time that a person woul dneed going through the severe amount of crisis,” he said.

Watch the full interview below.

Wendy Williams Admits She Knew Kevin Was Cheating & Had Mistresses The Entire Time

For years rumor had it that Wendy Williams ex-husband Kevin Hunter was cheating on her. One time Evelyn Lozada revealed that Kevin actually walked into her store in Miami and bought another woman a pair of shoes.

Turns out Wendy was not in the dark about her husband cheating ways. She stayed by Kevin’s side because she didn’t want to be alone.

On a promo tour for the release of her biopic, “Wendy Williams: The Movie,”, Wendy recently stopped by EXTRA and went into more details about Kevin’s cheating.

“Kevin cheated on me while I was pregnant with my son… and I found out and I could’ve divorce him then, but I said, ‘No, I have a son and I’m not going to have any more children’… I didn’t want him to leave me by myself.” She went on, “And I knew Billy, it was not till death do us part,” adding, “Kevin was a serial cheater, Kevin had different mistresses… This last one was the one he had the longest term relationship with.”

Interesting how much pain she endured by not jumping ship right away. A woman’s desire to STAY TOGETHER, causes her to build her own pain and constant embarrassment.

What’s most interesting about the interview is the point when Wendy was asked about being raped.

Extra asked, “There’s a moment in the documentary where they’re like say his name… and you go, ‘You want me to say his name?’ and then in the end you decide not to. This day and age, with the movements that are happening, why would you protect this person?”

Wendy told him, “The reason I didn’t say his name in the documentary is because I couldn’t believe I was saying so much about everybody and everything.”

I believe Wendy is saying so much, because she’s on a journey of healing herself. She’s accustomed to speaking on everyone else’s business, but only revealing so much about her own.

Las week Wendy actually revealed that she was date raped by the late R&B singer Sherrick who died in 1999.

Describing meeting Sherrick during an interview, Williams, 56, told People how she was “mesmerised” by the singer at the time.

“He mesmerised me with his twinkling eyes,” she said. “He flipped the interview around to where he was interviewing me – I was just gaga over this man and he asked me to go to an opening party, an album release party, with him that night.”

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William’s biopic is set to be released on Lifetime on Jan. 30 and will reportedly feature the incident.