Wendy Williams got honest about her health condition in a June 28 interview with TMZ. She opened up to TMZ’s Harvey Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere about her persisting struggle with lymphedema.
“You know I have lymphedema; you know what that is, correct?” Williams asked her pair of interviewers on TMZ Live. Upon receiving a no in response, she proceeded to show them. “All right, you don’t know lymphedema? All right, I’ll show you,” Williams reached down below the camera and lifted her foot; shockingly, it was swollen, an effect of the disease.
“Ok, lymphedema is this. Do you see this right here? Look. No, look closely.” She ensured the two men understood just one physical effect of the disease. “Do you see this? It’s up and down. I can only feel maybe five percent of my feet. Do you understand?”
She continued to show off her swollen foot and explain how much pain came with her condition. “Which means, normally, I would be in a wheelchair,” she shared proudly. “I’m not in a wheelchair. I stand up.”
Despite the seriousness of the condition, she was just as quick-witted and bright as you’d expect the used-to-be talk show host to be. When asked about how she was – she replied, “Better than you,”
Williams isn’t allowing her disease to stop her, though. She told TMZ that she wants to start a podcast, and she believes it has the potential to make her more money from it than The Wendy Williams Show.
“When you’re famous, podcasts will make more money for me, being famous, than doing The Wendy Williams Show,” Williams said, “So, podcasts. Where will I go? I’m not sure. Europe, you know. France. Wherever I want to go,” She continued to confirm that she was entirely done with television. “Excuse me, I am 100 percent retired in The Wendy Williams Show, and I do not want to be on TV except for guest hosting,” she assured TMZ.
According to cancer.gov, lymphedema is defined as “the build-up of fluid in soft body tissues when the lymph system is damaged or blocked.” it typically results in significant swelling and tenderness in many cases.
