- Wendy Williams opened up to the women of The View about her divorce and experience living in a sober house.
- She said she was addicted to cocaine 25 years ago, but hasn’t struggled with drug addiction since then.
- She said the sober house experience helped her “plot on” what she would do with her life next.
Wendy Williams has made headlines recently for her divorce and time in a sober living house. And today, she made an appearance on The View to discuss the past few months of her life. (Wendy is set to return for the 11th season of her own daytime talk show on Monday, Sept. 16th.)
ICYMI, it’s been kind of a rough year for Wendy: In April she filed for divorce from her husband of 22 years after he fathered a child with another woman. She has also been open about her battle with lymphedema, which causes swelling in her legs.
She opened up about her very public ordeals with the ladies of The View on Thursday, starting with her divorce after 22 years of marriage: “Infidelity is one thing. A baby is a whole ‘nother topic, okay” she said on the show. “I’m not changing Pampers. I want to be pampered.”
She added. “If we don’t laugh then we’ll cry. I’ve learned from my mother how to make lemons from lemonade…what am I supposed to do? Stay in the house and cry all day? …People do change, and it’s now time for me to move on with my life.”
She says she had no doubts about filing for divorce once she learned of the baby.
“I didn’t even go back and forth with oh do I stay, maybe there’s marriage counseling or something. Nooooo. You do this? Get out!” she said.
She also addressed her drug use and her time in a sober living house. View host Joy Behar said, “You’ve been addicted to various substances,” and Wendy interrupted her saying, “No just one, cocaine. That’s been so over, like over 25 years ago,” she said.
She says she sought out sober living during her divorce as a place where she could “plot on” the next part of her life. She described it as “like rehab without wine” or “rehab where they take your phone and lock it in a safe, so people can’t call me and inject their opinions on my life.”
“It’s been a very, very difficult time. I couldn’t talk to my mom. Who wants to burden her? I couldn’t talk to my sister. And most of my girlfriends would have said, ‘You should have left him a longggg time ago.'”
Wendy explained that she stuck around for her son, Kevin Jr., though.
“I said, I will stay here. I will make sure his braces get tightened properly. I will cook the best I can at night. I will moisturize. I will drive him to the SAT prep courses. I will help him do his essays for college. And now he goes to college in Miami, and now it’s time to pull the trigger. And the trigger has been pulled.”
