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