22-05-2025
Listen to Wendy Williams' 'gay rappers' bombshell that saw Diddy 'get her FIRED from hit radio show'
As jurors hear testimony about Sean ' Diddy ' Combs sexual exploits with male escorts, a decades-old clip of Wendy Williams talking about gay rappers has resurfaced.
Williams previously claimed that she was fired from popular New York City radio show Hot 97 in 1998 after sharing her belief that Combs was gay.
She supposedly claimed to have a photo of Diddy being intimate with a man.
She also made scandalous remark about the percentage of gay entertainers during a Hot 97 segment addressing the allegations that then-basketball star Eddy Curry had made sexual advances at his male driver.
Williams, during the broadcast, cited her 'inside' experience in the entertainment industry as evidence to support self-proclaimed statistics for the percentage of rappers and pro-athletes who were gay.
She claimed that 'two out of ten' players and 'five out of ten in music' were gay.
The former talk show host has not publicly named Combs as the party responsible for her ousting from Hot 97, but has implied it in interviews.
Williams went on to become a superstar talk show host, but famously continued sharing criticism of Diddy.
The resurfaced clip from Williams' stint on the radio program shows an interaction between the star and listener who called in.
'Do you really think that every player is gay or every other player is?' the caller and self-identified fan asked. 'Are you a little gay obsessed?'
Williams quickly hit back, saying: 'I'm not gay obsessed and every other would be an exaggeration. But I would say two out of ten in sports and five out of ten in music.'
'I don't think that's gay obsessed. I think that's after being in this business for over 20-something years and seeing things from the inside out, and the outside in,' she continued.
She said when she first met her then-husband TV producer Kevin Hunter that he thought it was 'going to be a one-night stand with this gay obsessed person'.
'Big Kev has never been more wrong about both things,' she told the caller.
'First of all, I wasn't a one-night stand. Second of all, I was more dead on than he, as a person who used to listen when I did the Top Eight at 8, was willing to give me credit for.
'So yeah, I think you have to be on the inside more.'
She then probed the caller about her career, which she said was in pharmaceutical sales, and said: 'I am not offended about you questioning, but I think you have to be more on the inside to understand what I'm saying.'
The caller, with a bit of disbelief in her tone, concedes, saying: 'Okay, I get it.'
But Williams interrupts her and says the caller does not have to agree with her analysis.
'You can choose to believe that everything's all hetero and all masculine. And I choose to -' the host said, before the caller cut her off.
'I don't think that, but I just noticed you do a lot of the "how you doing" - and I love it, it's hilarious. But I was just wondering if you really think that and also if you think coffee's gay,' she continued.
Williams replied 'You haven't gotten the memo?', before queuing up a song.
She was fired from Hot 97 in 1998, with Williams suggesting during an interview with Howard Stern years later that Combs was largely responsible for her termination.
'I got exiled from New York by Hot 97,' she told Stern in 2006.
Williams said she sued the station and 'won', noting that the whole incident stemmed from 'gay rappers and exposing'.
'Did you get fired for making fun of puffy?' Williams was directly asked.
She answered: 'Listen, you figure it out. You do the music of what was playing back in... 1998 on the majority of every radio station, 25 times an hour.'
Combs' former security guard also Gene Deal seemed to confirm the claim in 2022.
'[Diddy] got one of the hottest DJs off Hot 97 because she wanted to put up a picture of him getting his pants pulled down,' Deal said, according to Vibe.
Radio host Charlamagne tha God, who Williams was a mentor to, echoed the claim last year on Andrew Schulz's Flagrant podcast.
'Wendy whole thing with Diddy was gay since the 90s,' he said. 'Wendy was throwing that out there, that's why Wendy got fired from Hot 97.'
He doubled down, adding: 'Wendy got fired from Hot 97 by Diddy because that's when Bad Boy was smoking hot. She got fired for putting that out there.'
Combs' trial is underway in New York City as the disgraced mogul faces charges of sex-trafficking and racketeering.
The music producer, 55, has sat by his team of star lawyers as he is accused of leveraging his wealth and power to oversee a criminal enterprise built around fulfilling his sexual fantasies.
Diddy denies all allegations against him. His lawyers argue that all the sexual acts were consensual, and although he could be violent, he never veered into sex trafficking and racketeering.
If convicted, the once powerful music industry icon could face life in prison.
