Wendy Williams recently showed us all how serious her lymphedema has become in a surprise moment during a TMZ interview.
For over a decade, Wendy Williams established herself as a controversial voice whose hot takes about celebrities and social issues often caused widespread outrage and prompted calls for The Wendy Williams Show to be cancelled .
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Nonetheless, she was able to maintain enough of a fanbase that her show remained successful, but she was nonetheless forced to step away from it.
And as she recently made abundantly clear, that had less to do with any industry politics or public backlashes than it did with several health problems that seemed to strike at once.
But she also revealed that one of them seems more persistent and debilitating than the rest and showed us just what that means for her daily life.
While speaking to TMZ founder Harvey Levin and producer Charles Latibeaudiere, Williams addressed where she is now after ending her 13-year tenure on ‘The Wendy Williams Show.’
And as Entertainment Tonight reported, she mentioned that she is “100% retired” from not only the show but television in general.
Although she indicated some openness to a guest-hosting opportunity, he said that she will instead focus on starting a podcast that she could run from essentially anywhere in the world.
In her words, “When you’re famous, podcasts will make more money for me, being famous, than doing the Wendy Williams Show.”
And as she mentioned in the interview , another possibility would involve using her connections with the Home Shopping Network and QVC to launch a line of sneakers intended for those living with lymphedema.
She then mentioned that this is a condition she suffers from and asked the hosts of TMZ Live if they were familiar with it. When they said they weren’t, Williams replied, “All right, you don’t know lymphedema? All right, I’ll show you.”
She then proceeded to lift up one of her feet, which looked about as swollen as the one on the left.
According to the Mayo Clinic, this happens when protein-rich fluid that should normally be drained out by the lymphatic system builds up and causes infections and potential mobility issues in the arms, legs, abdomen, neck, chest, or even genitalia.
In Williams’ case, it has primarily affected her feet and left her in a state that she described by saying, “It’s up and down. I can only feel maybe five percent of my feet. Do you understand?”
And while Williams added that she may one day need to use a wheelchair due to how severe her lymphedema has become, she said she can still stand on her own.
Nonetheless, she said that recent times have seen her feel better physically and even told the TMZ Live hosts that she was doing better health-wise than they were.
In any case, it certainly sounds like she’s more focused on what she wants to do than what may happen to her now that she lives with lymphedema.
h/t: TMZ
