{"id":271354,"date":"2019-04-16T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1033029"},"modified":"2019-04-16T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:31:00","slug":"kevin-hunter-breaks-his-silence-after-wendy-williams-files-for-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kevin-hunter-breaks-his-silence-after-wendy-williams-files-for-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hunter Breaks His Silence After Wendy Williams Files for Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.395489548955\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017826\/rs_634x1024-170926070157-634.Wendy-Williams-Kevin-Hunter-JR-092617.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter\" alt=\"Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">AP Photo\/Charles Sykes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.234762979684\">\n<p><strong>Kevin Hunter<\/strong> has spoken.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week since <strong>Wendy&nbsp;Williams<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029102\/wendy-williams-files-for-divorce-from-kevin-hunter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed for divorce from her&nbsp;husband<\/a>&nbsp;of more than two decades, Hunter has addressed the news with a message of support for his longtime partner and mother of his 19-year-old son.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, I didn&#8217;t realize that she would not only become my wife, but would also change the face of entertainment and the world,&#8221; he said in a statement to E! News. &#8220;I have dedicated most of our lives to the business empire that is Wendy Williams Hunter, a person that I truly love and respect unconditionally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1026694\/wendy-williams-husband-kevin-hunter-reportedly-welcomes-child-with-alleged-mistress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports of his alleged infidelity<\/a>, Hunter continued, &#8220;I am not proud of my recent actions and take full accountability and apologize to my wife, my family and her amazing fans. I am going through a time of self-reflection and am trying to right some wrongs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>The <em>Wendy Williams&nbsp;<\/em><em>Show<\/em> executive producer concluded, &#8220;No matter what the outcome is or what the future holds, we are still The Hunter Family and I will continue to work with and fully support my wife in this business and through any and all obstacles she may face living her new life of sobriety, while I also work on mine. I ask that you please give me and my family privacy as we heal. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.398766700925\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018624\/rs_634x1024-180724124249-634-wendy-williams-mv-72418.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter \" alt=\"Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Bernard Smalls for The Hunter Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.247854077253\">\n<p>Last month, the longtime media maven revealed to her viewers that she has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1024799\/tearful-wendy-williams-reveals-she-s-living-in-a-sober-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been secretly living in a sober house<\/a>. On Monday, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1031854\/wendy-williams-is-moving-out-of-her-sober-house-after-filing-for-divorce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced she is going to move out<\/a> in a few days.&nbsp;&#8220;You know I&#8217;ve been dealing with issues with addiction, alcoholism and I have a whole new life that I planned for myself and my son,&#8221; Williams said as she was met with roaring cheers from the audience.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody has things in their life that they&#8217;re embarrassed to share with the world. Or they&#8217;re frightened to share with the world. Or they&#8217;re not ready to share with the world,&#8221; she told her guests. &#8220;And addressing my sobriety, my addiction head on has really helped me sort out every single compartment of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams made no mention of her ex during the candid talk, a glaring omission given the divorce news. As she told the audience,&nbsp;&#8220;I have a commitment to me and my son to come out of here better, stronger and faster than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033029\/kevin-hunter-breaks-his-silence-after-wendy-williams-files-for-divorce?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Photo\/Charles Sykes Kevin Hunter has spoken.&nbsp; Less than a week since Wendy&nbsp;Williams filed for divorce from her&nbsp;husband&nbsp;of more than two decades, Hunter has addressed the news with a message of support for his longtime partner and mother of his 19-year-old son.&nbsp; &#8220;28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 00:59:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}