Wendy Williams Gets Real About Overcoming Cocaine Addiction

 

In a new interview with ET, the daytime queen Wendy Williams opened up about her battle with a cocaine addiction she developed during her days in radio.

While she has been clean for years, WW says everyone she worked with at the height of her coke days knew she was a "functioning addict."

She remembered:

"I report to work on time, and I'd walk in and all my co-workers, including my bosses, would know but since I would have my headphones on and walk in the studio and [they] wouldn't fire me because I was making ratings."

Of course, maintaining such a wild lifestyle took extra work:

"[A] functioning addict has several alarm clocks, you're organized. It's a miracle I was able to stop." 

We're glad she lived to talk about it!

Now, Wendy has partnered with The Hunter Foundation to launch the "Be Here" campaign, designed to prevent other people from making the same mistakes as she did.