‘Wendy Williams Show’ producers refused to help with her addiction: Kevin Hunter

Wendy Williams’ ex-husband claims producers of “The Wendy Williams Show” would not “sign off” on agreeing to get the talk show host help to aid her recovery from addiction issues

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Kevin Hunter tells Page Six exclusively that Debmar-Mercury didn’t want to engage in any activity that would take Williams away from her iconic purple chair.

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“Debmar would not support Wendy’s recovery efforts with the family,” Hunter says. “They would not sign off on anything that would’ve helped her recovery efforts.”

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Hunter, 50, further claims that Williams’ family attended an intervention of sorts with Debmar-Mercury in which he and the group discussed how to further aid Williams

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Williams, 58, battled drug and alcohol addiction throughout her career. She was sober until she appeared to relapse in late 2018 or early 2019.

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At the time, she went on hiatus from her show for two months but claimed it was to treat her Graves’ disease.

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While Williams has not spoken about her addiction issues, she shared in June that she has only “five percent” of feeling in her feet due to lymphedema, caused her to use wheelchair

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