Everything Wendy Williams’ Son Kevin Said in Lifetime Doc
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00:00 "I feel like the guardian has not done a good job of protecting my mom. As long as she has people
00:04 around who are yes people, I know that she's not getting the help that she needs or getting better."
00:08 Wendy Williams' son, Kevin Hunter Jr., speaking out for the first time about his mom's condition.
00:15 In the shocking Lifetime documentary, Where is Wendy Williams?
00:19 "I'm afraid that she could die."
00:21 "There was no way we were gonna proceed with this without the family completely on board."
00:28 In rare interviews, Kevin shares his worry over Wendy's many health struggles,
00:33 as we see heartbreaking footage of his mom struggling to make sense.
00:37 "I'm gonna be doing such fun things on my new TV show.
00:40 And I'm gonna have, you know, I don't want to just write it because it will
00:47 get off, you know what I'm saying? So I like a paint thing. Yeah, just to paint."
00:57 "She looked confused. And she looked skinny. Like she needs a break."
01:04 "We spent a lot of time with the family and it really was important to understand their point
01:09 of view and their concerns and as they learned along the way as well."
01:14 One of Kevin's biggest concerns? Wendy's alcohol addiction.
01:18 "So what's the tension between you and Kevin?"
01:20 "Nothing. Except for he hates liquor."
01:25 "They basically said that because she was drinking so much,
01:28 it was starting to affect her head space and her brain. So I think they said it was alcohol-induced
01:34 dementia. Yeah." Wendy's health care team announcing last week the self-professed
01:41 queen of all media has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, along with aphasia,
01:47 a disease causing a gradual loss of speech and the ability to understand language.
01:52 What can be done to help her? "There's very little that we have to treat this.
01:58 What we can do is support. We can give the best care, love. But the question is,
02:05 how do you stop this process? And we really have to put more into that."
02:10 "What do you miss the most about Kevin? Do you laugh a lot?"
02:13 "We have the best time. When I die, everything is for him."
02:20 "I think it was confusing for all of us because Wendy would have moments of clarity
02:25 where she seemed fine, like the old Wendy we knew. And then there were times when she was
02:29 completely a different person." And Kevin, who's the son of Wendy and her ex-husband,
02:35 he previously oversaw his mom's care until 2022. She's been under a guardianship ever since.
02:42 "I want the family to become the guardian." "And you guys are ready to take care of her?"
02:45 "100%. As long as she has people around who are yes people, the same thing is always going to
02:51 occur where she would ultimately just find any excuse to be by herself so she can get back to
02:57 Draker." Kevin also addressing headlines that he stole money from his mom, which some say then
03:04 triggered the guardianship. "I've never taken it without her consent. I've always liked her and
03:09 she's always wanted me to like, you know, spend her, like spend her money." "I've got so much
03:16 money. I want it for my son." "I want to give some love to my son, Kevin. It's me and you, kid."
03:27 And while Wendy is seen speculating her career's next chapter, Kevin wants her to slow down.
03:34 "She always talks about how she wants to work. I feel as though she's worked enough."
03:40 "You ready?" "Her health needs to be the number one priority, not her getting a talk show."
03:48 "I want to put my mom in a situation where working isn't the thing that kills her."
03:53 "I also think that it's important, you know, that it's an issue that so many of us are struggling
03:59 with and to be able to shed light on that and to show the reality of what it's like to, you know,
04:06 have a loved one who has dementia and is struggling with addiction. I really do believe that we
04:10 perhaps we stayed to help make sure that she got the help she needed because she was not during
04:15 the time that we were there."