(Photo: Getty Images / YouTube via Tommy Williams)
Wendy Williams called his brother on his talk show Monday morning after he claimed she did not attend her mother’s funeral.
In a rare moment of family drama on public display, Williams took a few minutes to address his younger brother, Tommy Williams, who made headlines days before after embarrassing Wendy for allegedly not attending his mother’s funeral.
Like theGrio previously reported, Wendy Williams’s mother, Shirley Williams, passed away last year.
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“What prevents someone from attending their mother’s funeral? I can’t understand not giving a greeting to the one person who has always been there and shown his support, ”said Tommy in a video on YouTube. “I don’t understand how you can just move on and act like nothing has happened.”
Tommy Williams said that Wendy attended her mother’s vigil ceremony – which usually takes place before a funeral service – with her son Kevin Hunter Jr. He made a point of mentioning that her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter Sr., attended the funeral despite his absence.
In The Wendy Williams ShowWilliams acknowledged the online conversation that his brother’s video created and decided to talk about him live.
“I was just looking to see what people had to say about last week’s shows or the dresses or the guests we had … We do a good production here,” said Williams. “I’m running my own WendyShow.com business and I’m seeing a lot of comments about ‘your brother doesn’t like you’ or ‘you better take care of yourself because your brother is in one’ or ‘Wendy, I can’t believe you’re the one kind of person. ‘”
Looking directly at the camera, Wendy Williams spoke directly to her brother: “Tommy, let me say something now – all you are is my brother. You better stop talking the way you’re talking, because now it’s dripping on my comments page. “
She continued: “He is identifying me as a person that I am not. Honey, you don’t want me to start considering you the person you are – with full receipts. I could fill the public with receipts with leftovers from around the block.
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“You are my brother, let’s keep it that way. If you want to talk on the internet, then you talk about the things you think you know about yourself. You don’t want to talk about the things I know about you … for sure. “
The TV’s severe and tense moment was followed by a bit of Wendy humor.
“By the way, did you like my dress, Tommy?” said the talk show diva.
Wendy Williams announced her mother’s death in December, telling the public that she had died “many weeks ago” during the pandemic.
Mrs. Williams appeared regularly in The Wendy Williams Show over its 12 years on the air. The love between Wendy and Shirley Williams is often on full display on the daytime talk show, like Shirley and her husband Thomas Williams Sr. appeared on camera as special guests in the live audience.
And while, like most celebrity moms, Shirley Williams, a retired teacher, remained behind the scenes in her daughter’s meteoric career, she often won over audiences and Wendy’s fans with her captivating personality and humor.
A particularly memorable moment between Wendy and her mother ended with the talk show host in tears. In 2010, Shirley Williams shared a story with viewers about how Wendy’s birth brought “a ray of sunshine” to her family, as it did just a few months before Shirley Williams’s mother died of colon cancer.
“In 1964, my family was full of stress and a lot of darkness because my mother was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was not a good time for my family. But then a ray of sunshine entered our lives, ”said Shirley Williams at the time.
“What a wonderful blessing it was for us that one was ready to be taken in October and the other brought a ray of sunshine and hope and a wonderful and bubbly personality.”
Wendy also shared that when she was born in July, her mother was on a summer vacation as a teacher and still had the job of taking care of a newborn and simultaneously driving more than an hour from her home in Ocean Township, New Jersey to see her dying mother in Elizabeth.
“While a life was lost, a life was won,” Wendy Williams added. “And maybe that’s why my mom says I got so bubbly because I was there to inject a new ray and light … into our family.”
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