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Wendy Williams says Nicki Minaj 'ruined' her brand by marrying a sex offender as she reignites feud with rapper

Wendy sparked a feud with Nicki back in November after the TV host made a series of comments about Kenneth Petty's criminal history
UPDATED MAR 19, 2020
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Wendy Williams has once again attacked rapper Nicki Minaj, adding fuel to their ongoing feud while filming her talk show on Tuesday. The 55-year-old host first told her audience how she would make Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty the first topic of her Hot Topics segment for the following day, Page Six reports.

However, Williams then launched a tirade against Nicki, reiterating her opinion that the rapper "should've never married" the registered sex offender who is also convicted of manslaughter.

Wendy Williams attends the Chiara Boni front row during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery II at Spring Studios on September 07, 2019, in New York City. (Getty Images)

"Well apparently the way this show is going today, we did not have enough time to get to Nicki Minaj's [husband]," Wendy said from her set. "But let me tell you something Nicki. That's going to be my first story tomorrow and I'm going to lead with this: You should've never married him because now you've ruined everything about what your brand could be."

"Again, you are never going to stand a chance when you are with a man who pulls a knife at rape point," she continued. "A registered sex offender, you are never going to stand a chance with the public."

"There's only one thing worse than touching children and pulling knives and that's murder," she added. "By the way, he did go to jail for manslaughter. Oh, I think I just did the story."

Wendy then directed her viewers to dig up more information on Petty for the upcoming episode.

"No, get to digging. There's more on it," she said. "Everybody get to digging. Get to digging."

Internet sleuths uncovered Petty's criminal past when Minaj began dating him in 2018. The couple went on to tie the knot in October 2019.

According to the New York State's Sex Offender Registry, the 41-year-old is a "registered Level 2 sex offender."

As reported by USA Today, Petty's offense was an "attempted first-degree rape" that took place in 1994 and resulted in him serving "just under four years in prison" before his January 1999 release. But Petty would return to jail in 2006 for seven years on a charge of "first-degree manslaughter." 

Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty attend the Marc Jacobs Fall 2020 runway show during New York Fashion Week on February 12, 2020, in New York City. (Getty Images)

Wendy sparked a feud with Nicki back in November, after she made a series of comments about Petty's criminal history. "He served seven years in prison and he's also a sex offender," she said on her show. "So that means that he — is a manslaughter a killer? Okay, so he's a killer and a sex offender. Well Nicki, congratulations."

In response, Nicki hit back at Williams during an episode of her own Queen Radio show.

"Every time you mention him you feel the need to bring these things up," she said in response to Wendy's comments. "I didn't know that in our society, you have to be plagued by your past. I didn't know that people can't turn over a new leaf."

"I didn't know that your viciousness and evilness was this deep-rooted, this deep-seeded," Nicki added.

She then brought up Wendy's own tumultuous past. "When a woman isn't really being loved at home, the viciousness is a different type," she said at the time. "So I really wanted to pray for you today, because look at where you are now in your life. Look at what age you are."

Wendy divorced Kevin Hunter, her husband of 22 years, after he fathered a child with his mistress. 

"You paid for that man's mistress for all these years. You paid for her shopping sprees, you paid for her hotels, you probably even paid for her GYN bills … you paid to have that baby delivered," Nicki noted.

"I was one of those black women supporting you when that came out," she continued. "If I were you, I would go and pray, ask for forgiveness. You can report the news — people do it all the time — report the news without the level of viciousness and trying to play dumb and doing all this nonsense," she added.

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