How Wendy Williams Lastly Obtained Her Groove Again After Devastating Heartbreak

Wendy Williams cannot cease smiling. 

On the July eight episode of The Wendy Williams Present, the discuss present host drew thunderous applause when she revealed she’s “formally off the market.”

“I do know!” Williams stated, protecting her face because the viewers cheered. “I am not in love, however there’s someone that I am loopy about.”

Williams, who turns 55 on July 18, then began crying tears of happiness, a welcome sight for her followers after the emotional turmoil the Emmy-nominee has shared with them since submitting for divorce from her longtime husband Kevin Hunter in April. 

Like she stated in Could, Williams is “reclaiming” her life since her resolution to finish her 21-year marriage to Hunter, who was her supervisor the govt producer of The Wendy Williams Present and father of 18-year-old son Kevin Jr.

Unable to withstand dishing on her new romance, whereas denying the report that she was courting 27-year-old Marc Tomblin, saying “OK, mom would not take care of kids.” (Although an eyewitness spilled to  E! Information that the duo had been “holding palms and she or he held his arm your complete time” throughout an outing in NYC after being launched to one another by Blac Chyna.)

She continued, “And he is started working. It helps that he’s a health care provider,” Wendy revealed. “I am not gonna say yet another phrase, you are not gonna blow this for me. You are not gonna blow this for me. However he has been married, his children are of their 20s. Like, he is…and sure, he is black. I do know you are questioning. He is black, sure.”

For viewers and members of Williams’ inside circle, the host’s giddiness and tears of pleasure had been a welcome sight. 

“Wendy actually resides her greatest life proper now,” a supply instructed E! Information. “She returned from her summer season hiatus stronger than ever and loves dwelling in New York Metropolis.”

Our insider continued, “Her workers and pals are actually comfortable for her.”

Williams’ upbeat perspective is in stark distinction from her demeanor on her eponymous present simply ever months in the past, when she tearfully addressed Hunter’s alleged infidelity and her struggles together with her sobriety after infinite hypothesis about her absence and parade of tabloid rumors.

And that got here after virtually three months of silence from outspoken host, following an admittedly “lower than stellar” present in December. 

“I promise you a greater Wendy in 2019,” Williams vowed on the time. “I’ll get some a lot wanted relaxation and therapeutic over these subsequent couple of weeks. (Sure I’m undoubtedly juicing over the following couple of weeks). Sorry once more. I like you all!”

However the brand new yr began with Williams, a four-time Daytime Emmy nominee for Excellent Leisure Speak Present Host, MIA from her hit present, with varied visitor hosts stepping in, together with Jerry O’Connell, Nick Cannon and others. 

Her hiatus was initially slated to be a number of weeks, as she had introduced her day off earlier than heading into the vacation season—and was then prolonged resulting from a very painful hairline fracture in her higher arm.

However then her deliberate return was delayed once more, resulting from ongoing well being points, an announcement launched by Williams and her household stated on the time, revealing a she had a flare-up of her Graves’ illness.

“As Wendy Williams Hunter beforehand shared, she fractured her shoulder and has been on the mend. Over the previous few days, Wendy has skilled issues relating to her Graves’ Illness that may require remedy,” the assertion learn. “Wendy will probably be below the strict supervision of her physicians, and as a part of her care, there will probably be important time spent within the hospital. Regardless of her robust want to return, she is taking a crucial, prolonged break from her present to give attention to her private and bodily well-being.”

In March, Williams lastly returned to her present, with the previous “three-gram-a-day cocaine” person revealing she’d been dwelling in a sober home “for a while now, and even at this time and past.” 

Opening as much as her viewers, she continued, “If you see me come to work, glammed up, proper after the present I am going throughout the road, I do my Pilates. I instructed you, two hours a day or prefer to care for my physique. And you recognize I’ve had a battle with cocaine in my previous. And I by no means went to a spot to get the remedy. I do not understand how, besides God was sitting on my shoulder and I simply stopped.”

And he or she decidedly shut down break up rumors.

“Anyone who’s been married for 5 minutes or 500 years, you recognize marriages have ebbs and flows. Marriages aren’t simple…Do not ask me about mine till you see this gone,” she stated pointing to the ring affixed to the fourth finger of her left hand. “And it ain’t going wherever—not on this lifetime.”

Hunter additionally spoke out towards the rumors of hassle of their marriage, telling Leisure Tonight, “Wendy is doing properly. We’re doing properly as a household. We’re shifting ahead with engaged on her sobriety and doing the work to assist others, not simply ourselves. It’s a household course of. Anyone that has to take care of this is aware of this a household course of… and we’re coping with it and shifting ahead.”

However then Williams’ ring grew to become the supply of infinite hypothesis as she would alternate between proudly sporting it and taking it off, and and fewer than one month after her return to daytime, Williams filed for divorce from Hunter, who was served with the papers on the studio the place the discuss present is taped. The ring was formally gone. 

“There exists irreconcilable variations between the events which have prompted the breakdown of the wedding for a interval of six months and which make it seem that the wedding needs to be dissolved as there isn’t any cheap prospect of reconciliation,” Williams’ divorce submitting acknowledged.

On the time, a supply revealed to us that the choice to file for divorce got here after “Wendy and Kevin had a confrontation over his alleged mistress. Kevin admitted to the affair and to fathering the kid.”

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His alleged admission despatched Williams “over-the-edge and she or he relapsed,” the insider added. “After recovering from the relapse, Wendy made the tough resolution to divorce Kevin. It was a really arduous selection for her, however she lastly realized she needed to put her well being and well-being first.”

Her resolution to finish her marriage over her husband’s infidelity wasn’t stunning for individuals who learn her 2001 memoir, Wendy’s Obtained the Warmth, through which she revealed Hunter had cheated on her shortly after she gave start to their son Kevin Jr., vowing she would “stroll out for good” if an affair developed right into a full-blown relationship. 

However in 2013, Williams insisted on Vlad TV in 2013 that his prior infidelity and her subsequent forgiveness made their “marriage stronger. No, I am not again to the lady I used to be earlier than him, as a result of once you get stung like that, you by no means return to who you had been. Solely a idiot does.”

Everyone knows the saying: idiot me as soon as…

In an announcement to E! Information after the divorce submitting information broke, Williams’ private rep stated, “Thanks to everybody for respecting the household’s privateness throughout this time. Kevin is supportive of Wendy and they’re working by this course of collectively.”

In his personal assertion, Hunter stated, “28 years in the past I met a tremendous girl: Wendy Williams. On the time, I did not understand that she wouldn’t solely grow to be my spouse, however would additionally change the face of leisure and the world,” Hunter stated in an announcement to E! Information Tuesday. “I’ve devoted most of our lives to the enterprise empire that’s Wendy Williams Hunter, an individual that I really love and respect unconditionally.

“I’m not happy with my current actions and take full accountability and apologize to my spouse, my household and her wonderful followers,” he continued. “I’m going by a time of self-reflection and am making an attempt to proper some wrongs.”

However as Williams was eradicating Hunter from her private life, he was additionally being pushed out of her private one, with a present spokesperson confirming to E! Information after her divorce submitting that, “Kevin Hunter is not an govt producer on The Wendy Williams Present. Debmar-Mercury needs him properly in his future endeavors.”

Again in 2013, a supply had instructed the New York Day by day Information that Hunter had grow to be a controlling presence on the set, requiring that visitor bookings and different key choices be run by him first, and it was unfathomable to those that knew Williams because the robust pressure to be reckoned with that she often is that she was permitting him to behave that approach. Round that point Love B Scott additionally reported that present executives would slightly Hunter not be there.

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And after his departure from the present following Williams’ following, a supply instructed us, “Having Kevin on set was worrying and made for a tense working setting. Wendy is relieved.”

That aid was felt by viewers members who attended her first taping after submitting for divorce, with one telling us, “Wendy was so unbelievably unbelievable at this time. She got here out and went into what is going on on on the sober home and Kevin in a approach which you can inform she’s, like, again.”

In fact, Williams knew what everybody was all for.  As per the foundations and rules of the “Sizzling Matters bureau,” Williams stated, “now my enterprise is your enterprise.” She began laughing, including, “It is kinda humorous!”

She went on to disclose her plans for “an entire new life” as she continued to give attention to her sobriety. 

“Addressing my sobriety, my habit head-on, has actually helped me kind out each single compartment in my life,” Williams instructed her viewers, which applauded enthusiastically as she took a sip of tea. “I’ve a dedication to me and my son to come back out of right here higher, stronger and sooner than ever—and by the best way, I’ll nonetheless commit—’trigger you may overlook about my enterprise any second now—I commit that the motto of this present will at all times be ‘their enterprise is our enterprise!'”

Single for the primary time in over 25 years, Williams targeted on her well being and sobriety, ultimately shifting into “the last word bachelorette pad excessive atop every little thing” with a “actually, actually good view” in New York Metropolis after leaving the sober home she was dwelling in and the New Jersey residence she shared with Hunter.

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In Could, Williams shared together with her viewers that she was having fun with the one life, saying, “I am going out so much as a result of I’m an excellent time lady. I prefer to have enjoyable. I’m proper now a younger and fairly New York Metropolis lady.”

And earlier than assembly her new beau, Williams was “rediscovering my love of males…”I do date and I date fairly typically.”

She then added males from her present have been to her residence to assist her unpack and transfer bins. “The parade of males will proceed,” Williams stated.

As Williams was busy reclaiming her life, Hunter filed a counter-claim, looking for spousal and youngster assist for his or her now-19-year-old son. 

Nonetheless, the household was again within the headlines on Could 22 when it was reported that Kevin. Jr. was arrested for allegedly getting right into a bodily battle along with his dad in New Jersey, with Kevin Sr. later telling TMZ, “I like my son very a lot and I can’t be pursuing this matter legally. Issues aren’t at all times how they seem.”

In July, the easy assault case towards the teenager was dismissed, who had beforehand pleaded not responsible to the fees. 

“The police weren’t witnesses to what occurred and so they got here onto the scene after the very fact,” his lawyer Raymond Hamlin instructed E! Information. “If you do not have a first-hand historian you may’t prosecute and the daddy by no means needed to prosecute his personal son. They’ve reconciled since. Issues occur in households at instances, sadly, however they’re good now.”

The lawyer added that the daddy and son “got here in collectively” and had been “laughing and joking round with one another.”

Kevin Jr. is at present residence from school and sees each of his mother and father, and his mother is concentrated on her new life as a single mother, absolutely conscious of the general public’s curiosity in her private life after years of spilling the tea on celebrities.

“It is arduous to say ‘give privateness’ as a result of I do not give privateness once I’m doing the remainder of the tales, so that you do what you need—you at all times do,” she stated on her present in Could. 

Go away it to the purveyor of Sizzling Matters to grow to be the most popular one of many summer season. 

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