LEMON DROP | Wendy Williams, Without Apology
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How did Wendy Williams arrange the surprise dinner invitation to Don Lemon?
So recently I had dinner with Wendy Williams. Wendy called me up and said, hey, I need to get out of this place. I need to get out of this place. Will you take me to dinner on Thursday? My niece will be here and we can go out and it'll be great. And yes, I said, of course, I said yes. And I can't even imagine how she feels right being in that place. You know, she's in this conservatorship or guardianship and it's very strange. She's in this memory unit and she's been reaching out to people to try to get help with it. And now she has as her personal attorney, Joe Takapina. And so I honestly, I said yes. And then i forgot and i got a text from i didn't get a text i got a missed call because she can't text i got a missed call from wendy saying and i and it reminded me like oh my gosh yes this is thursday and i'm supposed to have dinner with wendy and so i contacted her niece um and i didn't hear back and then i was in the middle of the show and i get a text right about to finish my show
in the evening, and I get a text from Joe Tacofino, who's our attorney, saying, you know, call me ASAP. And so I did, and he said, wait a minute, I can't get to go to dinner with Wendy, but you can? Which is bizarre, because I think what happened was that the conservator said, by the way, this is my Wendy mug, And just so you know, my 10 o'clock show, my live show, 10 o'clock Eastern show called Hot Topics. It is an ode to the Wendy Williams Hot Topics. So I borrowed from her what she borrowed from Barbara Walters on The View. But anyways, so according to what I just read, I didn't know the full story last night because I didn't ask. I don't pry because I'm not it's not about reporting on Wendy. I don't give you details about her life.
I just tell you about what I feel I can share about our conversation, our conversations. But I don't think they would let her go with her attorney, who is Joe Takapina, who's her personal attorney. But somehow they would let her niece meet me. I don't know if that's true, but that's what it's been written about. I think it's on TMZ, so check it out. But we had a fantastic dinner. I managed to get a reservation the last minute we met up. And I'm glad I did because I saw Wendy. It's different when interviewing her and talking to her on the phone. But I've known Wendy for a long time. We're not best friends, but we've known each other for a while. And I think as it goes for friendships with Wendy, I think maybe...
she's not that close to many people, even family members. So, you know, just the fact that I do have interactions with her, I think is pretty important and pretty special.
What happened when Don almost forgot the dinner and who intervened?
So we went to dinner and I was so glad to see her because she looks really great. She looks so much better. When she came to visit me at my house, she was not in a good way. She was going through the divorce and she just did not, she was not in a good head space. She was dealing with some issues that I won't share, whatever, anyway. And now she's a completely different person. She's lighter, she's freer. Her energy was better. You know, you can feel people, you can feel like what they're going through and all those things. She just felt lighter, better and freer, but not as free as she can be. And she was happy to be there. And she said, Don, I'm gonna eat everything in the place. And she kind of did. And it was great.
I'm happy she did. You know, the chef, the restaurant brought a little tray over of an appetizer and they said, Oh, this is courtesy of the chef or whatever. And she ate that. And then she said, can we get another one? And we laughed, everyone laughed. It was great. And so, um, she got a big meal. It was an Italian restaurant and it was, I, I was, it was good that she ate because she said the food in the place where she is, is not great. Uh, she compares it to like, you know, she says it's like an old folks home, her words. Um,
Why is Wendy Williams reportedly under a conservatorship and how did that affect the dinner plans?
And like, she feels like she's in jail. You've heard that before too. So I'm not sharing anything that's, that is not, you know, out there in the public, except for like, this was as I'm taping this, it was last night that I had dinner with her and I, I wrote about it and I'm going to read it to you, but it really was eyeopening to me about a lot of things about people who go through things about resilience and,
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Chapters
4 chapters
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How did Wendy Williams arrange the surprise dinner invitation to Don Lemon?
0:01–2:40
2
What happened when Don almost forgot the dinner and who intervened?
2:40–3:54
3
Why is Wendy Williams reportedly under a conservatorship and how did that affect the dinner plans?
3:54–10:22
4
What was Wendy’s energy and appearance like when Don first saw her at the restaurant?
10:22–14:03
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