Sherri Shepherd will get it.
When she was requested, throughout an Instagram Dwell this weekend, about Wendy Williams having mentioned in an interview that she will not be watching Shepherd’s new daytime discuss present, Sherri, when it debuts within the fall, Shepherd mentioned she wasn’t upset by it.
“I did hear Wendy say she is not going to watch me on the brand new present, and that is OK,” Shepherd mentioned. “You understand, I perceive. I am not mad at Wendy. She’s going via lots. I’d say that everyone needs to be praying for Wendy proper now.”
As revealed in February, Sherri will air within the timeslots that beforehand belonged to The Wendy Williams Present in TV markets, and the favored program is ending after Shepherd and others stuffed in for Williams all of final season. Williams had taken what was alleged to be a hiatus from her present in July 2021, amid well being points together with Graves’ illness, however has since disclosed that her monetary property have been frozen. Her former monetary adviser, Lori Schiller, claimed the TV star is “of unsound thoughts” and wanted a guardianship, based on court docket paperwork. Williams, nonetheless, has strenuously denied it. Simply final week, she made a uncommon public look on the Met Gala afterparty.
“I am very involved,” Shepherd mentioned within the new video. “I am actually, actually involved about her, as a result of I do not really feel like there’s anyone over there defending her. And it is actually arduous when there’s no safety round you, and also you simply have folks hanging on. So, uh, yeah. However I am not mad at Wendy as a result of she will not watch my present.”
When somebody requested Shepherd if she thought Williams was simply bitter, Shepherd mentioned no.
“Wendy is just not bitter, no less than not about me,” Shepherd replied. “There’s lots happening in her life proper now.”
Williams had mentioned she does like Shepherd, however she is aware of “what she’s gonna be doing, and that is actually not my factor.”
In her response, Shepherd famous that the 2 had by no means “run in the identical circles,” as a result of Shepherd lives in Los Angeles, whereas Williams is a New Yorker.
“There was a time, at the start of my profession, at The View, I used to carry out at Caroline’s [Comedy Club]. And Wendy had a comedy evening at Caroline’s, and I’d do it. And we have been very pleasant. However generally stuff do not pan out, so far as friendships.”
Shepherd identified that Williams had been very sincere on her present about preferring to not befriend celebrities.
“She would say she actually wasn’t making an attempt to be associates with folks, trigger it could make it arduous to speak about them,” Shepherd mentioned. “So possibly that was one of many the reason why we by no means had a friendship.”
