Reactions To Wendy Williams Docuseries | The View

so last week the niece of Wendy Williams Alex finny was on the show uh Wendy's been a friend of ours for many years and Alex was here to talk about the docu series produced by Wendy and her family focusing on her mental and physical health issues the second part aired Sunday night now will putting this out there uh show families who may be going through this kind of Crisis that they're not alone and how they can uh move forward to try to get help that is the question I think it absolutely highli

ghts a problem that we first many of us first understood or saw with Britney Spears to see this now it's so painful to watch I I I think we all know um not personally I'm just a fan of Wendy's but um I loved her for years to see anybody go through this and to see a family go through this but it shines a light that only a Wendy Williams or a Britney Spears could a lot of families go through these things and they suffer with with no platform no voice and by the way who's going to watch a documenta

ry on a conservatorship if it's not Wendy Williams or someone else like this is bringing eyes to something that's been going on for a long time and I honestly learned about it when Britney Spears went through it so I think it is important so I was really conflicted I watched the whole thing and I want to start by saying we met her family I have no doubt they had the best of intentions in this they love her and you you see that and you feel that in in meeting them but um I've talked about my sist

er was an addict for over a decade she's now 11 years clean but when you're in the throws of addiction you are not yourself I remember looking her in her eyes and that was not my sister in those moments there are years of her life she doesn't remember there are major family events she doesn't remember and I have a hard time believing that I just for me personally I would never want her darkest lowest points to be seen by anyone outside of the closest circle of people who love her and it was it w

as triggering to watch to be honest I turned off the final episode cuz it just it just brought back some painful memory it was not easy to watch I'll tell you that friend of mine who was a drug counselor used to say addictions Trump relationships MH that's true yeah because you you know you want that whatever it is but um I just want to say that um I always thought Wendy was a singular talent that she was able to do something that I could not do for example somebody who can just talk and talk an

d talk and not get a response necessarily just whatever would come into her head and just keep and make it interesting to listen to I have to always have a response yeah I I I felt similarly I I I had the pleasure of being um Wendy's legal eagle on her radio show so we've known each other for a long she do it like four hours on a radio she talk to a wall a wall and um and I had the the pleasure of of getting to know her and um you know as a professionally and also personally so it was very painf

ul for me to watch and as most of you know I went to see it uh and watch it with her niece because I I wanted to understand what happened to my friend and um I I I think that if anything good comes from it what people should know is that she signed this deal to do these three documentaries when she before she was incapacitated right so this is something that she wanted to do she wanted her family to be involved and it was supposed to be a show about her comeback but she was in the throws of addi

ction and and I I I think we also need to remember that a pandemic happened that her husband had an affair and had a baby with another woman and they got divorced yeah and oh I remember they have we also have to remember that she lost her mother who was her best friend so we're seeing a Confluence that I think would take anyone out but she's still standing okay she's still standing and she is in this guardianship her family clearly loves her um they're they're saying that she's calling them they

're unable to call her but she is calling them this conservative ship this guardianship where is she they don't know because of the guardianship uh because of the guardianship system and that's to my next point I think when someone's going through dementia I have two people in my family uh one who is presently in facility and another person who has passed away so I'm very familiar with dementia and being around family members actually can be quite helpful yeah right it brings back memories peopl

e of this was they want to get closer and they want to get closer to her and so I think what do Nobody Knows the family does not know the guardian has the records are sealed the guardian has placed a seal on it and if you watch the documentary please take note of the woman that is a um she's an expert in guardianship I think her name was Diane uh Johnson and and in my ear please tell me what's right she says that 90% of people in in guardianships do not get out of them 90% And so that's a system

that may be broken and it's a system that maybe we need to look at a little bit more and I just wish all the best and for her and I hope I get to see my but there's something wrong with the fact that nobody knows where she is because if that happened to somebody you loved why would you not want to know where they are for this question yeah they were showcasing that she was better when she was with them at times because obviously with exception families are the ones that as collaboratively are l

ooking out for your best interest and they had her doing well and then every time she went back they lost control so show sorry real quickly showcasing that I think allows people to know that this is happening to people but see remember Britney Spears I was part of the free Britney movement I I was horrified I thought you know her children were taken from her and her parents are taking money from her and free Britney we've seen a free Britney now out of the conservatorship is she still suffering

sometimes I wonder it seems that she is still suffering suffering is going to be inevitable it's whether she's capable of making decision and is she capable because we've seen some some things that H has happened have happened that's questionable the guardianships no no they just they feel so extreme it seems like there's not a meeting in the middle like if you have a family that loves you like Wendy Williams clearly does not one that's taking advantage of you there should be a middle ground wh

ere yes there's a custodian but the family has a say they have access the Britney case was one where it was the family that was exploiting her and that's where I feel like you need an outside sort of mediator or person involved because not everyone is blessed with great families that love you and Aren't kind ofing in AIT of ayeris society as guilty of this I'm more guilty than anyone at the table kind of like the housewives a lot I love Housewives I like following celebrity gossip but part of me

is like maybe we shouldn't demand to see so much of public figures like maybe it is not our business what Wendy is going through and the experiences she's had and I think there's a bit that the viewers should check themsel of like is this for good why am I indulging this if it's a person who's truly suffering but you know the the producer I have a note here that says one of The Producers said if we'd known she had dementia no one would have rolled a camera right well when I was watching episode

one you could say something was wrong I me she was very like you know rude to people people that she normally would not be rude these are all these are edited yeah this is all edited so who knows what the outcome was supposed to be I mean she had so many different diseases lymphedema Graves disease Aphasia frontal temporal as well as alcohol she's going through a lot of stuff and we're hopefully yes and the family knew all of that and they made the decision together to show this process because

she thought it was going to go in a different direction you know look Wendy's where she needs to be right now would we like the family to have more access absolutely because we want to make sure that they're as comfortable with what's happening as she is and they can't get they can't get to her and that's concerning for any family member so we're going to continue to keep our fingers crossed and hope that this resolves itself because it's not it's not an easy thing and yes I was going to get to

that part but yes and our best wishes and good wishes because as I said she's been a friend of the show and a friend to quite a few of us for quite some time so