I swear, the Wendy Williams-divorce story is one of the darkest stories we’ve ever covered. Beyond whatever you might think of Wendy’s brand as a talk show host, can we all just come together and say that Wendy went through ten kinds of hell at the hands of her husband? Kevin Hunter just sounds like a complete monster – controlling, abusive, unfaithful, sadistic and awful. He got his long-time mistress pregnant and when the mistress gave birth, Wendy was reportedly devastated. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back, allegedly. But everything leading up to that was awful too, the reports of physical and emotional abuse, drug dependence and more. And here’s another part of it – apparently, some people were concerned that Kevin Hunter was poisoning Wendy during her months-long hiatus from her show:

Cops paid Wendy Williams a visit to check on her after a random caller alleged her husband, Kevin Hunter, was poisoning the talk show host. According to the police report … the outrageous call, made back in January, came from someone claiming to work for Williams’ production company. The caller believed Kevin was slipping Wendy something harmful, and he or she wanted cops to check on her.

The report says 2 officers went to Williams’ New Jersey residence and were greeted by Hunter, who was hesitant to let them in for the welfare check because he said Wendy was sick and recovering from a health problem. Cops say they explained to Hunter they were required to speak with Williams due to the anonymous call. When he allowed them to enter, they found Williams in bed “with the blanket covering from neck to toe.”

According to the report … one of the officers asked Kevin to leave the bedroom so they could talk to Wendy alone, but he didn’t want to leave her side. As for the health problem she had — Wendy told cops she was recovering from a broken shoulder. An officer eventually asked her if there was any truth to the anonymous tip she was being poisoned, and Wendy responded with something like … “Well, I’m very popular.” When the cop repeated the question, the report says she became tearful, but denied there was any truth to it. The cops left after Wendy told them once more she was okay.

[From TMZ]

So, the idea is not just that Kevin Hunter emotionally and physically abused Wendy, but that she’s the victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, or perhaps just the victim of… I don’t know what to call it, some kind of poisoning. I believe it – the weirdness around Wendy’s hiatus was never completely explained, and then there was the whole living-in-a-sober-house thing which was either her attempt to get out of Hunter’s grasp or HIS attempt to shuffle her off because of his mistress’s pregnancy. This is probably only a small sliver of all of the sh-t that Wendy was going through. It’s awful.

Update: some people disagree with my armchair diagnosis of Munchausen’s by Proxy, which I just think is one possibility (as I said above). It just seems to me like if TMZ’s story is true, he wasn’t trying to kill her, he was trying to make her really sick. But I don’t know and no one really does.

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