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Wendy Williams is still on an indefinite hiatus from her eponymous talk show as she undergoes treatment for Graves’ disease and continues to heal from a shoulder fracture. Since she’s gone off of the grid, as we previously mentioned, there have been all sorts of questions and stories about whether or not her time away, and that shoulder injury, have anything to do with her husband, Kevin Hunter. It has been alleged in the past that not only does Hunter have a mistress (Sharina Hudson), but it’s also been alleged that he has been abusive to Williams.
In a lawsuit against Hunter and Williams from 2008 by former The Wendy Williams Experience employee Nicole Spence, she stated that Hunter created a “hostile work environment” and claimed she saw him put his hands on Williams, punching her in the face and attacking her in a parking lot shared by employees.
In her complaint, she said that on one occasion, he told everyone to leave and “Openly physically abused Ms. Williams, pinning her against the wall with his hand around her neck, choking her while repeatedly pounding his fist into the wall directly behind her head.” The case was reportedly dismissed with prejudice in October 2008 (so as to not be refiled in the future).
And recently, someone else who worked very closely with Williams and Hunter is saying she needs to get out of that situation. That person is The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne tha god. He worked on Wendy Williams’ radio show before being laid off. And while his relationship with Williams crumbled (she publicly said she didn’t know him), he said he doesn’t have beef with her. As for Hunter though, that’s a whole other story.
“I don’t f–k with Kevin. I think he’s a terrible human being,” Charlamagne told The New York Post earlier this month. While he wouldn’t go further about why he felt that way, he did send a message to his former friend in response to allegations that he’s abusive.
“I will just tell you that I hope Wendy Williams wakes up before one day she doesn’t wake up.”
This isn’t the first time Charlamagne has talked about Hunter. In his book Black Privilege, he called Williams’ husband “aggressive” in his tactics.
“He was always extremely aggressive in trying to get more money out of situations,” he wrote. “He’d yell at and often threaten people till he got what he wanted … I can’t lie: It’s worked for him and Wendy. But it wasn’t how I wanted to do business.”
Despite all the stories, Williams did make it clear that she’s standing by her man. When Nick Cannon was a guest host recently, he relayed the message that she said she wasn’t going to focus on the negativity out there.
“I had a conversation with her and her whole family and she said she wanted to speak as a family unit,” he said. “Her, I talked to Kevin, little Kevin, they said they all good. The love and the passion is still there ’cause that’s what you need in times like this is your family to stick together with you.”
“There can be negativity out there, and she hears the things about people talking about her family unit and ‘What’s going on?’ and she was like, ‘You know what? We don’t want to bring that negative energy when you’re trying to heal,'” he added. “You need your family and you need your friends in moments like this. That’s when love is truly tested, when you know I’m going to stick through this regardless of what’s going on.”
