Without Williams in her purple chair, the show has been airing with a slew of guest hosts and panelists, including Sherri Shepherd, who is hosting this final week and the final episode.
In March of this year, she was placed under. Williams has spoken about her legal woes, both through a new Instagram account and also in various media interviews, recently telling “Good Morning America” that she wants her money back and also discussing her financial state with rapper Fat Joe, stating she only has $2 to her name, during an Instagram Live conversation last month.
Williams has said in various interviews recently that she plans to return to her show, despite her show not returning on the fall schedule., the co-presidents of Debmar-Mercury, Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus, addressed the situation with Williams for the first time, saying they’d like to work with the host again.
“It doesn’t mean the next day, but we will put it together and figure it out,” Bernstein said. “It’s not like we have a Plan B where we hit a button and it’s back in a week, but we do have the desire to be in business with her, if she can come back and be healthy, and so does Fox.” “Other than her health, she could have continued to keep doing it as long as she wanted. She was still getting a rating and she has a die-hard audience that turned it into a profitable show,” said Marcus. “We were protecting the business, while we waited for her. And at some point, we had to say, ‘We have a business to run and she’s not here.’ It was a hard call.”did not immediately hear back from a publicist for Williams.