Did Wendy Williams attend mother Shirley's funeral? Brother alleges she didn't, talk show host responds angrily
Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams is definitely mad at her brother. On ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ on Monday, January 18, the 56-year-old took some digs at her brother Tommy Williams. A visibly angry Wendy spoke directly to him through the broadcast, saying, “Tommy, let me tell you something right now, all you are is my brother. You better stop talking the way you’re talking because now it’s dripping into my comment page.”
Why is Wendy angry with Tommy?
Wendy and Tommy’s mother, Shirley Williams, passed away in December 2020. On Sunday, during an Instagram Live session, Tommy revealed that Wendy did not attend their mother’s funeral, even though her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, did. “My mother always said stand by your family and your sisters,” Tommy said in the video. “But what makes somebody not go to their mother’s funeral?”
He added, “I don’t understand not giving a salute to the one person who was always there and showed you support. I don’t understand how a person cannot go to a funeral and hold up the one person or the family member that you do have, the parent that you do have left, and just move on. Keep it moving. I don’t understand how to keep living somebody who could cause that type of pain.”
"She spends time doing what she wants to do, that's why I'm caught up in my thoughts because why wouldn't you come to your mother's funeral? Why?" Tommy further said. "It's not their fault. And I have a father he needs because I've got to fill that gap that he felt that day." He also added, “Wendy's ex, Kevin, came out to support the family and I appreciate that. There's no malice that I have towards him, never will be there.”
Continuing his disapproval of Wendy’s absence at the funeral, he said, “It's life. She may be a celebrity. She may be on stage. She's a child of somebody's as well. She's a sister. She's an aunt. She's a mother. And it's all laid out on stage.”
On Monday, Wendy gave him a piece of her mind. She said of her brother, “He’s pegging me to being a person that I am not. Honey, you don’t want me to start pegging you for being the person that you are. With full-blown receipts. I could fill the audience with receipts, with the leftovers all the way around the block.”
She added, “You are my brother, let’s keep it that way. If you wanna talk on the internet, then you talk about the things you think you know about yourself. You don’t wanna talk about the things that I know about you, for sure.”
She also said on the show, “Do you know that I have better feelings for my ex-husband, Kevin, than I do for my own brother? Now, you know that’s saying something... He’s got a blog for this and a blog for that, and then one where he needs Jesus and he goes all Kumbaya, and then he goes back… to talking about me.”
She ended the subject with, “There is nothing that you could say about me that either I haven’t already said in my 35-plus years, that you’ve been jealous of, of holding this microphone. Or that you won’t find out the rest, in full totality, on January 30th on Lifetime,” referring to her upcoming biographical film, ‘Wendy Williams: What a Mess’. But curiously, Wendy, at no point, spoke about whether or not she attended the funeral.