“I really want to be back on television,” she says in the trailer, which also features her son, Kevin Hunter Jr. It continues with Williams, now 59, sharing details about her financial struggles. “I have no money, and I’m gonna tell you something,” she says, while looking into the camera. “If it happens to me, it could happen to you.”

In a recent interview with People magazine on Wednesday, her family broke their silence by talking about how alcohol played a large part in her downward spiral. “We’ve all seen the images over the last few months – and, really, few years – of what has seemed like a spiral for my aunt,” Williams’ niece Alex Finnie told the publication. “It was shocking and heartbreaking to see her in this state.”

Williams started her career in radio in the late 1980s, and rose to fame in the early 2000s with her popular radio show The Wendy Williams Experience, which would segue into daytime television in 2008 with The Wendy Williams Show.

Here’s what you need to know about Wendy Williams ahead of the documentary’s release on February 24.

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Who is Wendy Williams?

Wendy Williams is an American broadcaster, media personality, producer and author. In 2009, she was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. She has been nominated for several Daytime Emmy nominations for The Wendy Williams Show, per People.

It was announced in February 2022 that Williams’ talk show would officially end its run, with Sherri Shepherd taking Williams’ slot for good, per Parade.

Why is Wendy Williams considered controversial?

Those who watch pop culture highlights on YouTube will be more than familiar with Wendy Williams and her controversial interviews over the years.

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“I am often accused of being the person who says things that people really want to say but maybe are too scared to say it,” she told The New York Times Magazine in 2019.

Who was Wendy Williams married to?

Does Wendy Williams have Graves disease?

In 2020, Williams opened up about her battle with hyperthyroidism and Graves’ disease in an interview with Good Morning America. “It was a perfect storm that had been brewing in my body … since late July,” she explained, referring to the fact that she fainted live on air during a show three years before.

“My internist told me I am, if not the worst case of deficient vitamin D that she’s ever seen in her career,” she added. “I have vertigo, which I’ve had all my life and that was affecting my equilibrium. And it was just a mess going on inside of my body, but I’m saved.”

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Why did Wendy Williams lose her fortune?

As hinted at in the documentary’s trailer, it appears Williams is struggling financially, though why exactly is still unclear. As reported by TMZ, Williams was placed under financial guardianship in 2022 after Wells Fargo bank claimed she was a “victim of undue influence and financial exploitation”, so some fan blogs are speculating that this is the most likely reason – or at least one of the reasons – for her financial woes.