'Where Is Wendy Williams' _ Biggest Bombshells From Lifetime Doc

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00:00 This is my third time crying.

00:02 And I cried the other day.

00:06 I will smoke when I smoke, and I will liquor when I liquor.

00:09 Wendy, would you want to go to the Oscars?

00:11 What's Oscars?

00:12 In the documentary, it was revealed that she has dementia.

00:15 So I think they said it was alcohol-induced dementia.

00:18 What did you see while you were shooting?

00:20 It was a complex and sensitive journey,

00:22 because we did not know when we started that she had dementia.

00:26 And we were deeply concerned as we filmed.

00:29 I'm real makeup.

00:30 Look, even when I do this, do you see a thigh gap?

00:34 It was illuminating watching this, in that you say,

00:36 "Well, what in the hell is going on with guardianships?"

00:39 That's the thing that's interesting to us,

00:41 is that a legal guardianship is in place,

00:44 but there didn't seem to be a lot of guardianing.

00:47 And so this is the reality of a time span.

00:50 Did you want to wear your Chanel sweater,

00:51 or are you talking about your Chanel jewelry?

00:53 Please, go away.

00:55 And we know it's not easy for a lot of people to watch,

00:58 but once we were in it, we felt like we were more scared

01:02 about what would happen if we stopped filming

01:04 than if we continued.

01:06 [Crying]

01:07 Can you--can you please come? Please?

01:11 At the end, the guardian did arrange to take her

01:13 to a facility to get help.

01:15 Just one day before Lifetime premiered

01:17 "Where is Wendy Williams?"

01:18 the talk show host's care team released a statement

01:21 on her behalf, thanking fans for their overwhelming support.

01:25 Wendy's been in a wellness facility

01:27 that specializes in cognitive issues since last April.

01:31 With the spotlight on the star's health,

01:33 the question is, were there warning signs?

01:35 Do you want to start drinking?

01:37 No.

01:38 When you watched the documentary,

01:40 did you notice that you could see her declining

01:45 and the dementia setting in?

01:47 You see that she's getting more frail.

01:50 She's not making as much sense.

01:53 I haven't treated her, of course,

01:55 but what I would say is that some of the things

01:57 that she did probably killed off a lot of nerve cells

02:01 ahead of time.

02:03 Why don't we order in some liquor?

02:05 No.

02:06 We haven't been able to speak to her in, gosh,

02:08 over six months now since we stopped filming with her,

02:10 but the family has been speaking to her more regularly,

02:13 and they've shared that she does sound better.

02:16 She's excited about her future.

02:18 You know, she talks about the possibility

02:20 of getting back to work, but like I always remind her,

02:23 first and foremost is your health.

02:26 [music playing]

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