Wendy Williams has checked back into rehab to treat her substance abuse issues amid her fallout with production company Debmar-Mercury, Page Six has exclusively learned.
“It’s gotten worse,” our source shares. “She went from wine to straight-up vodka.”
It’s unknown where Williams is receiving treatment, but she previously sought help from centers in Florida and Long Island City, New York.
We’re told Williams’ health and addiction issues worsened after her former daytime talk show’s production company allegedly “refused” to get her help.
“They turned their backs on her,” our source now explains. “They had too much control over someone so vulnerable.”
Williams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter previously claimed to Page Six that Debmar-Mercury wouldn’t engage in any behaviors that would take the shock jock, 58, away from her once-iconic purple chair.
“Debmar would not support Wendy’s recovery efforts with the family,” Hunter told us in July. “They would not sign off on anything that would’ve helped her recovery efforts.”
Hunter, 50, further claimed that Williams’ family attended an intervention of sorts with Debmar-Mercury during which he and the group discussed how to aid Williams in her battle with alcoholism.
“They sat in a meeting with her whole family, including her now-deceased mom, and would not sign off on the recovery efforts that would’ve helped Wendy also get well and live and be sober,” he told us. “They basically said, ‘If you don’t stop drinking, you’re going to lose the show.’”
Praying for her speedy recovery.
