Look Back at Wendy Williams’ Biggest Celebrity Feuds: Joaquin Phoenix, Beyoncé and More

The rapper came under fire in 2019 after he posted a picture of Williams wearing a black bikini and wrote, “They say it’s a hot girl summer.” Many accused Bow Wow of body-shaming Williams. However, she wasn’t afraid to clap back. “Please refrain from your body shame,” she said at the time. “You don’t have to like it, but someone does.” 

After Williams referred to Nicki Minaj‘s husband Kenneth Petty as a “killer” and a “sex offender,” Minaj fired back, calling her “demonic” and “vicious.”

“It’s not about doing your job,” Minaj said on Queen Radio. “There are people who report the news and there are people who do it with an evil intent in their heart, viciousness. And I pray for you because I know you’re hurting and I know you must be sick and humiliated.”

She later added, “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.” 

In 2015, Williams was accused of body-shaming Ariana Grande.

“She’s 21. She’ll forever look 12,” Williams said. “And I don’t mean that in a good way. It’s nice to look younger than you are, but when you look too young and then you’re short—she’s only like 4’11”. I don’t look at her as, like, a woman.” 

The comment fueled so much backlash that the hashtag #CancelWendyWilliams was trending.

After Williams accused the reality star of staging her 2015 hospitalization and “mini stroke” to gain sympathy for Dancing With the Stars, Zolciak-Biermann clapped back. “Absolutely appalling!! @wendywilliams how disgusting for you to insinuate I ‘faked’ my mini stroke on your show this morning!! You mad cause I didn’t come on your show! This clearly shows your warped mentality!!”

After Williams dissed Leakes over her Birkin bag in 2014, Leakes issues a reply.

“What you need to do is stop spewing hate!” she wrote in part of an open letter. “When it comes to gossip you are the lowest of the low!” She also explained the bag was for charity.

After Williams commented on LeAnn Rimes‘ relationship with Eddie Cibrian in 2013, the singer clapped back.

“All I know is Wendy Williams done pissed my mamma off! I don’t wanna be in her path. To say, ‘I’ve reserved myself a place in hell?!’ I’m incredibly disappointed to see someone with that kind of platform use it for such negativity and could be so mean and judgmental about a situation they know nothing about,” Rimes tweeted.
 
She then added, “I don’t like how it happened either, said it a million times, but this is out of control.”

In 2013, Williams commented on Lil Kim’s face.

“Do you want to talk about Lil’ Kim and that face of hers? It’s filled so tight now, Kim, it looks like a pin would just pop you,” she said. She later added, “Kim, in my mind, I know your goal was always to look like La Toya Jackson. You’ve out-La Toya’d La Toya in your new look, and don’t blame Photoshopping. Blame your plastic surgeon, girl.”

The rapper then blasted the TV host.

“@WendyWilliams Bitch Y didn’t u show the side by side pic,” the Grammy-winner posted. “This pic is photoshopped & U know it. U hating Bitch.”

 In 2012, the talk show host described herself as a “Beyoncé fan” and expressed her intent to watch her HBO documentary. However, she felt the Beyhive’s sting after she made a comment about the singer’s voice. 

 “I’m watching because, fortunately, one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning. So, I’ll be able to understand what she says,” she told her audience at the time. “You know Beyoncé can’t talk. Beyoncé sounds like she has a fifth-grade education. She can’t talk.”

Fans were also buzzing after Williams alleged Queen B and Jay-Z had paid Rachel Roy to stir up some drama ahead of the release of Lemonade.

“So Rachel Roy, first of all, you’re not this fighting girl,” Williams began. “Unless you’re on Jay Z and Beyoncé’s payroll, and they pay you to mix it up for I guess sales for the Lemonade.”

In his 2005 track “Mr. Nice Guy,” Will Smith rapped, “Wendy Williams, you don’t know me/ I’m not your punching bag/You gon’ blow me up girl you better leave me alone/Before I buy your radio station and send you home.” When asked how she felt about the insults in Smith’s song—as well as the insults in songs by Mariah Carey, Tupac and Jay-Z—Williams told The Hollywood Reporter, “Without those song mentions, I might not be on TV right now. There is a large segment who may have never heard about me on the radio, but they heard Tupac tell me I needed to go to Jenny Craig. Or Mariah Carey tell me that I’m all up in her business. So I love them for that.”