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Wendy Williams Reconnects With Son in Miami Despite Money Mishandling Claims | TMZ Live
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2/17/2025
Wendy Williams was all about family bonding, spotted reuniting with her son, Kevin Hunter Jr., in Miami ... despite her belief he’d financially taken advantage of her.
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00:00
We have been telling you about Wendy Williams.
00:02
We dropped a documentary, which is on Tubi,
00:05
which essentially shows Wendy confined to a room
00:09
and has been for months and months and months.
00:11
At the assisted living facility.
00:12
She had freedom this weekend.
00:14
She went from New York to Miami.
00:16
That's her at Miami International Airport
00:19
after she arrived to celebrate her dad's 94th birthday.
00:23
And it was very interesting to see her out in public
00:27
like this for the first time in a long time.
00:31
And to see and hear the reaction of people,
00:35
of fans seeing her in the airport.
00:37
It was, and Wendy reacting to some of it.
00:40
She didn't say much, but she's definitely hearing
00:44
what people were saying to her.
00:45
And, you know, they're walking away saying,
00:49
oh my God, it's the old Wendy Williams.
00:51
She's in that scooter, by the way,
00:53
because she has lymphedema,
00:55
which makes it difficult for her to walk.
00:57
To walk long distances.
00:58
You know, she got it.
00:59
Got the lymphedema?
01:00
High heels.
01:01
She got it from high heels.
01:02
And, warning, and she is,
01:08
she's not really confined to it.
01:10
She can, in fact, she could walk short distances, but.
01:13
In the documentary, she stood for over an hour.
01:15
Right.
01:16
By the window.
01:17
Still walking through Miami Airport.
01:18
So she celebrated her dad's birthday,
01:22
but she also spent time with her son, Kevin.
01:27
Which we were anticipating.
01:29
In fact, you had spoken to her about this,
01:31
that once she got to Miami, would she see Kevin Jr.?
01:35
And she did.
01:36
Had a very nice lunch with him.
01:38
She said that, I think Wendy wanted to make it clear,
01:40
she loves her son.
01:42
But, obviously, the contentious part of their relationship
01:45
is that, allegedly, the things he did
01:48
is part of why she ended up in this guardianship
01:50
to begin with.
01:51
We talked about this at some length in the documentary.
01:54
My son, you know, he overstepped his boundaries
01:58
in terms of me, you understand?
02:00
He overstepped his boundaries,
02:02
and he was inappropriately using my money
02:07
without telling me crap about it.
02:10
You know, like, is he stealing from me?
02:13
That's when my money got frozen at Wells Fargo, thank God.
02:16
No more money stealing from my son and the other people.
02:20
He has a way of getting with, you know,
02:24
a couple of other people, you know what I'm saying?
02:26
My son is not the only one, you know what I'm saying,
02:28
involved with my money.
02:30
So, Kevin denies misappropriating.
02:33
The judge said he had made a lot of mistakes
02:36
when it came to, or apologized for things
02:38
he had done with her money,
02:39
and that the judge did not trust him
02:42
to handle it in the future.
02:43
Right.
02:44
But, obviously, they were, at least,
02:48
on good enough terms to enjoy lunch together,
02:51
and I imagine he's gonna be at the birthday party as well.
02:54
Well, the birthday party was yesterday.
02:56
Right, he was at the party, right.
02:57
The birthday party was yesterday.
02:58
That lunch was separate, that was not the birthday party.
03:00
Right, and she's on her way back today
03:02
from Miami to New York, where she is going to go back
03:06
to this assisted living facility, to the memory unit,
03:11
and we told you that she's already signed an affidavit
03:15
asking that the guardianship end,
03:17
hasn't been filed with the court yet,
03:19
we expect it will be soon.
03:20
It's an important moment for her, right,
03:22
that she got out, she comported herself very well,
03:24
seemed to have a nice time,
03:25
seemed to be as lucid as we've ever seen her.
03:29
Really important, right?
03:30
I mean, there was always a little bit of a risk,
03:32
something might go wrong that might reinforce
03:35
some of the beliefs that the facility had about her,
03:37
and that the guardians had about her,
03:39
so it's really a great thing to see her doing so well.
03:41
You know, Jason, the one thing I was thinking about,
03:44
and I'm not suggesting it,
03:46
but if she just stayed in Miami,
03:50
I don't think the New York court system
03:51
would have any jurisdiction over her,
03:53
because you can only extradite somebody if it's a felony,
03:56
and this isn't even a criminal matter, it's a civil matter.
04:00
So she wants to live in New York, she said that,
04:03
and I have no idea whether that even entered her mind,
04:06
but it just occurred to me when I watched the video there.
04:10
Imagine if she was on the lam from the memory facility,
04:13
that would be some sort of turn of events.
04:16
Speaking of the memory facility, we have a new recording.
04:19
Yes, some answers as to why Wendy is being confined
04:24
on the floor of this memory care unit
04:27
at the assisted living facility.
04:29
It just never made sense, even when you were talking to her,
04:31
and she doesn't, in the documentary,
04:33
didn't seem to understand why she was there.
04:36
We have some answers now, and it has to do with alcohol,
04:39
and Wendy's incident when she first moved into this place,
04:45
that there's a bar on one of the floors, on the top floor.
04:49
It's a bar restaurant, and this is just a few days
04:53
after she checked in there.
04:55
They had put her on the third floor, we're told.
04:58
Where you can come and go.
04:59
Where you can come and go, and again,
05:01
we got this from somebody who works there,
05:04
who has firsthand knowledge of a lot of this stuff.
05:07
And actually, we have a second source as well on this thing.
05:10
And she went up to the restaurant,
05:13
and we are told she got drunk.
05:16
And when that happened, the supervisors were furious
05:21
that the bartender allowed her to drink,
05:24
because we've told you she.
05:25
This was at a time when Wendy had issues with alcohol.
05:28
And clearly, the staff at the assisted,
05:31
or at least the managers,
05:33
knew this at the assisted living facility.
05:35
They were furious that she even served.
05:37
So they decided at that point, we're told,
05:40
to put her in the fifth floor memory unit,
05:44
because that unit, you can't get in the elevator
05:48
without somebody turning the key, who works on the floor.
05:52
And they needed to keep tabs on her.
05:54
The problem was the memory unit was full,
05:56
and they kept her on the third floor until it opened up.
06:00
But when they kept her on the third floor
06:02
after that incident, they had a guard standing by her room,
06:06
and telling her that the restaurant's under construction,
06:09
you can't go up there.
06:10
So the solution was putting her in the memory unit,
06:14
even though her memory,
06:15
according to one employee in particular,
06:19
and by the way, I spoke with her a bunch of times.
06:21
Right, this is what you had been saying.
06:22
But the employee is saying,
06:25
Wendy does not have good days or bad days.
06:26
As the guardian had said, that was their response.
06:30
That's right, that she's the same all the time.
06:35
And you can tell her something today,
06:38
and two weeks later, she'll remember it.
06:40
So she's in the memory unit, and you know, it is-
06:44
But not because of the frontotemporal dementia.
06:47
Right, because if it were from the dementia,
06:50
they would have put her there from the jump.
06:52
Right. And they didn't.
06:53
Hi, I'm Maricelia from Sacramento, California.
06:55
I think in light of this new information,
06:58
it's good to see Wendy Williams out and about,
07:00
enjoying time with her family.
07:02
And maybe they'll look into this and give her a chance.
07:04
Maybe she was scared,
07:05
and that's why she turned to the alcohol.
07:08
But I, for one, am somebody rooting for Wendy Williams
07:10
to get back on her feet.
07:11
And it's good to see her back out
07:13
with her family and friends.
07:14
Yeah, but short-lived.
07:15
It was a 48-hour pass.
07:18
You look at it, and you go like,
07:19
oh, that's so nice for her.
07:20
But then you also remember,
07:22
that's gonna be over in 48 hours.
07:23
And in a way, it's even more difficult,
07:25
because it reminds her what life can be like,
07:28
and then she goes back into this facility.
07:30
So it's tough.
07:31
We'll see how long it takes.
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