{"id":271389,"date":"2019-04-16T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1033197"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:13:16","slug":"inside-wendy-williams-difficult-decision-to-divorce-kevin-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-wendy-williams-difficult-decision-to-divorce-kevin-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Wendy Williams&#8217; &#8221;Difficult Decision&#8221; to Divorce Kevin Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.976166832175\">\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=\"31.893292682927\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/wendy_williams\">Wendy Williams<\/a><\/strong> is putting her &#8220;health and well-being first,&#8221; despite making the &#8220;difficult decision&#8221; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029102\/wendy-williams-files-for-divorce-from-kevin-hunter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">divorce her husband<\/a> of two decades, <strong>Kevin Hunter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the 54-year-old talk show host called it quits with her partner, whom is also the co-producer of <em>The Wendy Williams Show<\/em> and father of her 19-year-old son, <strong>Kevin Jr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems, however, Williams is ready to move on after filing for divorce on April 11. &#8220;Wendy has signed a lease for a new home in NYC,&#8221; a source reveals to E! News.<\/p>\n<p>Although, this process hasn&#8217;t been easy, as the same insider shares, &#8220;Several weeks ago, Wendy and Kevin had a confrontation over his alleged mistress. Kevin admitted to the affair and to fathering the child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, the news sent Williams &#8220;over-the-edge and she relapsed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After recovering from the relapse, Wendy made the difficult decision to divorce Kevin. It was a very hard choice for her, but she finally realized she had to put her health and well-being first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.926605504587\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.0825688073394\">\n<p>Last month reports surfaced that Hunter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1026694\/wendy-williams-husband-kevin-hunter-reportedly-welcomes-child-with-alleged-mistress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly welcomed a baby<\/a> with his supposed mistress, <strong>Sharina Hudson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.900651465798\">\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\/201924\/rs_634x1024-190304074032-634x1024-wendywilliams-gj-3-4-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Wendy Williams\" alt=\"Wendy Williams\"><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.882736156352\">\n<p>On&nbsp;Tuesday, Kevin released a statement to E! News&nbsp;about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033029\/kevin-hunter-breaks-his-silence-after-wendy-williams-files-for-divorce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his alleged&nbsp;infidelity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#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<p>The television producer&nbsp;also spoke highly of his longtime wife, despite their divorce.<\/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>Last month, the 54-year-old media maven revealed to her&nbsp;audience and viewers&nbsp;that she was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1024799\/tearful-wendy-williams-reveals-she-s-living-in-a-sober-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secretly living in a sober house<\/a>. On Monday, she shared&nbsp;<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\">she was moving out soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>&#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;&nbsp;the talk show host said.<\/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 the audience. &#8220;And addressing my sobriety, my addiction head on has really helped me sort out every single compartment of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Hunter confessed&nbsp;he&#8217;ll always &#8220;support&#8221; Wendy &#8220;no matter&#8221; what happens.<\/p>\n<p>&#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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Closing his statement, he said, &#8220;I ask that you please give me and my family privacy as we heal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033197\/inside-wendy-williams-difficult-decision-to-divorce-kevin-hunter?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 Wendy Williams is putting her &#8220;health and well-being first,&#8221; despite making the &#8220;difficult decision&#8221; to divorce her husband of two decades, Kevin Hunter. Last week, the 54-year-old talk show host called it quits with her partner, whom is also the co-producer of The Wendy Williams Show and father of her 19-year-old son, [&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-271389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 01:48:08","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\/271389","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=271389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}