Talk show host Wendy Williams fainted live on air this week as she began a segment of her Halloween episode. The gossip maven, clad in all green as a very statuesque Statue of Liberty, stumbled from her podium onto the floor in a very dramatic fashion. Viewers and gossip sites speculated that Williams had a stroke, but Williams was back in the studio the very next day.
As the show started, she sat down to address the speculation over the circumstances that led to her fainting. Â
She began by joking with the audience, saying, "First of all, I was trending all day... Fabulous!" But she quickly got serious. She explained that her faint was not a joke, saying "I'm a tall woman and it's a long way down."Williams also explained that she tried desperately not to faint, but it was difficult.
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Williams was very quick to explain that the faint was not caused by a stroke. She went to the hospital and her blood work was fine.
Instead, she said, her was caused by menopause and an imbalance of electrolytes. "I'm a 53-year-old, middle-aged woman going through what middle-aged women go through if you know what I mean," Williams said. "The costume got hot. All of the sudden right before passing out, I felt like I was in the middle of a campfire."As she ended her explanation, Williams also cautioned everyone who thought she was stepping down from her talk show.
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