TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy (2025)

Is TMZ helping celebrities or taking advantage of them? I think this time they’re doing the right thing, as Wendy Williams has been confined to a New York City assisted living facility, living like a prisoner, despite her claiming there is nothing wrong with her mental ability.

Harvey Levin, who has known her for decades, even claims she’s herself again. Yet no one is allowed to visit or call her. She can make calls out, which she does in this, with a long-range camera capturing her as she pushes her face against a window. It’s frankly kind of terrifying.

According to TMZ, “Wendy is permanently disabled as a result of Frontotemporal Dementia … problem is, the condition never gets better. Wendy was in bad shape a few years ago when she was drinking heavily, but she’s sober now and her mental state has radically improved … many say back to normal, yet she’s still under an incredibly restrictive guardianship.”

I think this is the absolute highest level of all Tubi TMZ docs, one that has cameramen on the sidewalk shooting up to a window where a manic Wendy Williams rants on the telephone while TMZ people speak to her on the speakerphone, kind of like how my wife and I talk to my mom but you know, this is a documentary that millions of people can watch on Tubi and not my nightly “how are you?” phone call. This is peak junk TV, the equivalent of when the Enquirer had Elvis’s body in the coffin on their cover. Still, under the guise — and maybe TMZ’s heart is in the correct place here — of saving Wendy, just like the title, except that yes, we can all watch her flip out inside an assisted living place and the art for it has her dressed up, full face of makeup, crying in abject despair. So…this is entertainment?

You can watch this on Tubi.