Wendy Williams was noticed driving a mobility scooter in a uncommon public look on Thursday, December 19, as she attended her son’s, Kevin Hunter Jr., faculty commencement.
As reported by TMZ, the beloved discuss present host was in attendance for Kevin’s commencement from Florida Worldwide College in Miami, Florida, on Thursday. She was seen adorned in a glittery black gown and jewellery as she rode a mobility scooter, full with a Louis Vuitton monogrammed cup holder.
Williams shares Kevin along with her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, whom she was married to for 20 years earlier than submitting for divorce in April 2019. On the commencement ceremony, Williams was joined by her father, Thomas Williams Sr., and her sister, Wanda Finnie. Williams was seen wiping away tears as Kevin took to the stage.
Her look on the occasion comes amid her dementia battle and claims that she is “completely incapacitated.” In February, the previous Wendy Williams Present host revealed she had been recognized with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia.
Wendy Williams with son Kevin Hunter Jr.; David Livingston/Getty Photos
“Aphasia, a situation affecting language and communication talents, and frontotemporal dementia, a progressive dysfunction impacting conduct and cognitive features, have already introduced vital hurdles in Wendy’s life,” learn a press release on the time.
Williams took an indefinite go away of absence from The Wendy Williams Present in 2021 as a result of her varied medical points. Final month, Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, filed court docket paperwork that check with Williams as “an acclaimed entertainer who, tragically, has been troubled by early-onset dementia and, because of this, has turn into cognitively impaired and completely incapacitated.”
The court docket submitting got here amid Morrisey’s authorized battle with Lifetime over the The place Is Wendy Williams? documentary, which aired in February. Simply days earlier than the movie was launched, Morrissey’s group filed a restraining order in opposition to the TV community. Nevertheless, the request was overturned, as a choose discovered that stopping the movie could be an “impermissible prior restraint on speech that violates the First Modification of the establishment.”
Regardless of the claims of Williams being completely incapacitated, she was noticed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, earlier this week. She was all smiles at the back of an SUV whereas her nephew, Travis Finnie, picked up an order from Sho’nuff Oysters. Previous to that, she was final seen in public on August 19, when she stopped by the holistic retailer Bolingo Stability in Newark, New Jersey, with Kevin.