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Exclusive: Wendy Williams taking legal action because her medical records leaked? · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: Well, I just got back from Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: I've been traveling, traveling, traveling, and I was there with
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  Speaker 1: my family, My cousin and who's also my god sister
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  Speaker 1: alreadya married her husband.
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  Speaker 1: was just, you know, looking at my other cousins that
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  Speaker 1: were there, and I was just like, wow, we really
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  Speaker 1: we're grown up now, Like we are, We're adults, Like
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  Speaker 1: the conversations we were having about buying homes and just
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  Speaker 1: were here, We're grown as hell now. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a good time, always a good time. My family, y'all
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  Speaker 1: know I love I talk a lot about my family
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast, so you guys know that I'm super
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  Speaker 1: close to my family. So it was a great time.
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  Speaker 1: First time that I took off of work. Look, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say it loud. I took off of work for
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  Speaker 1: a day at the breakfast club, and I felt so
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  Speaker 1: guilty doing it. I felt so guilty. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like a failure. But we closed out the
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  Speaker 1: wedding weekend.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just party.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good time to celebrate us all being
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  Speaker 1: together and being there and all the things.
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  Speaker 2: And I wanted to be able to be present a bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to do that working in you know, this
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  Speaker 1: You know. It just can be a lot to deal
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  Speaker 1: with while also trying to be fully locked into a fan.
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  Speaker 1: So it felt good to actually be able to take
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  Speaker 1: the day. And I was telling my friend who was
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  Speaker 1: there with me that, like me and him were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the trip, and I was saying that the full
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  Speaker 1: time I was there, I didn't really feel like vacation.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't feel like vacation honestly until Sunday. Saturday was
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  Speaker 1: like semi Sunday, I felt like, Okay, I'm on a vacation,
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  Speaker 1: Like I can actually disconnect and stop watching what's happening
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  Speaker 1: in the world and all the things. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do more of that. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that balance looks like in this industry.
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  Speaker 1: So that's one of the conversations I want to bring
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  Speaker 1: here to Brown Girl Grinding into the Laces with Lona Rosa,
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  Speaker 1: is that balance of things. You know, as I'm growing
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  Speaker 1: and I'm learning this industry and you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: things right, but getting on back to the latest talking
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  Speaker 1: about balance and family, Wendy Williams. It's so crazy because
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  Speaker 1: every time I think about, am I doing something wrong
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  Speaker 1: by taking a break, or by prioritizing myself or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. I swear y'all I think about Wendy Williams.
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  Speaker 1: I always do. Not that I'm comparing myself to her,
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  Speaker 1: but just seeing you know, how it didn't being very
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  Speaker 1: well known that she didn't put her health first over career,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we see where she is with family
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out getting out of the conservatorship,
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  Speaker 1: just all those things. I have so many thoughts in
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  Speaker 1: my mind every time I think about just how strenuous
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  Speaker 1: working in a fast faced industry can be, and where
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  Speaker 1: I don't want things to end up. But also just
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  Speaker 1: watching her and just wishing the best for her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where it works out, whether she stays in
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  Speaker 1: the guardianship or she does not, just wishing the best
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  Speaker 1: for her.
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  Speaker 2: So over the weekend, in the end.
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  Speaker 1: Of last week, we had talked about Wendy Williams because
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  Speaker 1: there was a report that came out that Wendy Williams
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  Speaker 1: had completed all of the testing and the scans that
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  Speaker 1: were needed to determine whether or not she was competent
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  Speaker 1: enough to make her own decisions and should she or
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  Speaker 1: should she not be in the guardianship. Now, last week
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  Speaker 1: talked about this just for a quick recap, I told
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  Speaker 1: you guys that nothing has actually been decided on the
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  Speaker 1: guardianship indefinitely. So right now there is a hold on
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  Speaker 1: the guardianship. So Wendy Williams will be in the guardianship
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  Speaker 1: until November, and then in November the judge will make
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  Speaker 1: a decision long term. Now, according to the reports that
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  Speaker 1: went down last week and again, there was a letter
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  Speaker 1: that was submitted to the judge that was from her guardian.
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  Speaker 1: The letter basically said, or her guardian's attorney, excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: And the letter basically said, look, testing is complete. Here
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  Speaker 1: are all the things we think that you should deal
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  Speaker 1: with first when it comes to our guardians and then
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  Speaker 1: we can go back to that a he lawsuit, But
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  Speaker 1: first we need to know what's about to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Who are we about to deal with. Is Wendy going
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  Speaker 2: to be in a conservative ship or is she not?
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  Speaker 1: What's about to happen with her husband, Kevin Hunter Senior
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  Speaker 1: and his asks for money and everything he's said about
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  Speaker 1: the guardianship. Her family has issues with the guardianship, Like,
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  Speaker 1: let's deal with all the mess figure out who's about
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: We only need one chef in the kitchen. Who's it
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  Speaker 2: going to be?
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  Speaker 1: And then we move forward with all the smaller things,
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit and all the things against A and E currently,
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  Speaker 1: which is because of that Wendy Williams documentary that they did.
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  Speaker 2: So fast forward.
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  Speaker 1: When we talked about that, I had mentioned and I
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  Speaker 1: reported this on the Breakfast Club. I also talked a
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  Speaker 1: bit about it here, but I mentioned that in the
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  Speaker 1: paperwork that was submitted to the judge that we were
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  Speaker 1: able to see the media, there was no mention of
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  Speaker 1: her actual test results. However, there was an exclusive report
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  Speaker 1: that was put out there about People magazine. They had
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  Speaker 1: it on a source that Wendy Williams testing had read
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  Speaker 1: that she actually was diagnosed with frontual temporal dementia A again,
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  Speaker 1: which is what she was saying she did not have,
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  Speaker 1: and which is why she was saying she wanted the
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  Speaker 1: independent testing done now. Her attorney, Joe Tecapina, released a
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  Speaker 1: statement to me and if you're the outlets, and he
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  Speaker 1: said that those test results were BS that the claim
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  Speaker 1: that the testing was done was BS.
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  Speaker 2: The testing has not been completed.
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  Speaker 1: He alleges it has not been completed by an independent doctor,
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  Speaker 1: which is what was ordered.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I don't know what's going on there. I try
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  Speaker 2: to reach it back out to.
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  Speaker 1: The attorney for the conservatorship to clarify some things. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't said anything. But I reached back out the Joe
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  Speaker 1: Techapina because one of the things that happened over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend was, you know, Wendy Williams was out and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you know, she's been out looking good and
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  Speaker 1: being able to do dinner with friends and all the
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  Speaker 1: you know those things. So that's good to see that
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  Speaker 1: she's getting some time outside of the facility where she's
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  Speaker 1: living here in New York. But she was out and about.
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  Speaker 1: She ran into TMC and she ran into a few
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  Speaker 1: other outlets. But she gave an interview to page six
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  Speaker 1: where she talked about the fact that because her attorney
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  Speaker 1: when he gave me the statement about the testing and
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  Speaker 1: responsible to those reports, he was pissed. He was so
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  Speaker 1: upset that her medical anything was being discussed. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell y'all, I talked to Joe Takapina today, just
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  Speaker 1: touching base, seeing what's going on, trying to get an update,
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  Speaker 1: and he said to me, I want to read verbatim.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy Williams and her legal team are definitely exploring the
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  Speaker 1: idea of taking legal action following Wendy's medical reports being
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  Speaker 1: allegedly leaked to the media. Now again, the reports that
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  Speaker 1: he's referring to, it's not I don't believe it's the
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  Speaker 1: letter to the judge. It can't be because that letter
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything besides the tests were complete. But he
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  Speaker 1: might be, you know, he might have something to argue there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure on that, but I
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  Speaker 1: know more directly, he's referring to the sourced information I
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  Speaker 1: was given to People magazine about the actual test results,
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  Speaker 1: because he's a legend at that report is not accurate,
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  Speaker 1: and he's saying, even if it's not accurate, that's still
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  Speaker 1: a hippo violation for Wendy. So they're definitely exploring the
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  Speaker 1: thought of taking legal action when it comes to this
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  Speaker 1: whole conversation, because legally, no one should have known what any.
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  Speaker 2: Results were at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's supposed to be a private situation, So let me
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  Speaker 1: just tell y'all, Joe Takapina has been you know, every
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  Speaker 1: I've been reaching out to him ever since I've met him,
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  Speaker 1: following the work that he did with Asap Rocky, and
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  Speaker 1: he is very He's a very thorough attorney. Like if
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  Speaker 1: he says he's going to do something, he does it,
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  Speaker 1: he does it two hundred to three hundred percent. So
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  Speaker 1: her attorneys were very upset about the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: information had leaked. So we got to just wait to see.
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  Speaker 2: What's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, me asking him, Hey, are
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  Speaker 1: you guys going to take legal action? That was the
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  Speaker 1: first thing I thought of, only because I'm like with
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  Speaker 1: Britney Spirits, we didn't know what was going on with
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  Speaker 1: her at all. And then we get the information about Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously that's supposed to be something that's protected, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's in their favor or it's not. If she wants
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  Speaker 1: to share it, that's different, but it's up to her
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  Speaker 1: to want to make that decision to do that. So
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  Speaker 1: I kind of knew that something in that lane might be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being discussed. So I just asked him today
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  Speaker 1: and he when I say, very thorough and very to
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  Speaker 1: the point he had no problem. First thing he shot
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  Speaker 1: back was we definitely aren't exploring that, and like I'm
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  Speaker 1: you know, just keep me posted on that. But it's
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  Speaker 1: just a very unfortunate situation because either way this goes,
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  Speaker 1: whether Wendy does need the guardianship or she doesn't, it's
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  Speaker 1: just unfortunate because it does seem like, you know, her
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  Speaker 1: life is just different now. It's very different than what
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  Speaker 1: we got to witness for all of the years in
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  Speaker 1: the decades of Wendy Williams. And I know from having
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  Speaker 1: conversations with her a while back that this is not
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  Speaker 1: a place that anybody wants to be in, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, no one wants to have to
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  Speaker 1: navigate all the things she's having to navigate and do
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  Speaker 1: it publicly whatsoever. But you know, she's here now and
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  Speaker 1: she continuing to try and build a team around her.
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  Speaker 1: I know she had mentioned in this clip another attorney's name,
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  Speaker 1: which I had never heard this attorney's name before, So
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  Speaker 1: this must be because Joe Tekapina is her personal attorney.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't been granted the ability to be her attorney
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  Speaker 1: in the guardianship. So the Guardian the other attorney that
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  Speaker 1: she mentioned, I'm sure is the attorney that is more
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  Speaker 1: directly working with her on the guardianship. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: she's trying to get a team together, trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just unfortunate to see because who wants to
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  Speaker 2: live like this.
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  Speaker 1: No one wants to be able to not balance their
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  Speaker 1: personal time their family with work and health and all
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  Speaker 1: the things.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems like for Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: Things like at one point things crashed and burned and
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  Speaker 1: she's trying to put the pieces back together to the puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: and it just seems like it's such a slow crawl
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  Speaker 1: for her to be able to do so, so wishing
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  Speaker 1: her the best. I'll be back here with all the
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  Speaker 1: updates and all the ladies as they come. Just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give you guys an exclusive check in. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: back tomorrow with a full episode of all the things.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, there's always a lot
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, and as I tell you, guys, every
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  Speaker 1: single episode, y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys so much, my low Riders
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  Speaker 1: And I will see you in my next episode,