*Wendy Williams just announced to her live audience that she is suffering Graves’ disease, a disorder that affects the immune system.
Williams said that her doctor ordered her to take off for the next three weeks, but she has opted for a two week break instead, beginning tomorrow, Feb. 22.
“My doctor has prescribed — are you ready? — as of today, three weeks of vacation,” she announced. “What? Who are you? I was pissed.”
The TV personality joked, “I’ll be back in two. I’m not an heiress — who is going to pay my bills? Are you serious? I’m just saying, I come from working class.”
A rep for “The Wendy Williams Show” says they’ll be running reruns of her program during her hiatus after Wednesday’s episode:
Wendy says Graves disease “squeezes the muscles behind the eyeballs,” and that it feels like she has “birds swimming around in my head, like a cartoon.”
Watch Wendy’s announcement below:
The announcement comes after Williams canceled several shows last week because she was experiencing “flu-ish” symptoms, she said in an Instagram post last Wednesday.
The talk show host also fainted during a live broadcast of her show on Halloween, which she attributed to feeling “overheated” in her Statue of Liberty costume. The broadcast quickly cut to commercial, and Williams continued the show when they returned.
On today’s program, Williams had an important message to women to put their health first.
“What I want to say to women, more than men, is stop putting everyone first because if we’re not good, they’re not good,” she said.
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