Wendy Williams heads back to her sober living home in Queens

After the filming of her show on Tuesday, Wendy Williams looked downcast as she made her way back to the sober living residential facility where she is being treated for an alcohol and prescription drug addiction. 

The 54-year-old could be seen holding a salad as she made her way back into the Pure Recovery Network in Long Island City, New York.

Williams wore a puffy leopard-print coat with black Capri pants. The daytime host also sported comfortable white sneakers as she made her way inside.  

DailyMailTV has learned the star plunged into an alcohol- and pill-fueled depression after fracturing her shoulder during a confrontation with her cheating husband Kevin Hunter, 47.

Hours after DailyMailTV contacted Williams seeking a comment for this story, she broke down in tears on her show on Tuesday morning, admitting she had been living at the sober home and was attending meetings around New York City. 

The revelation flies in the face of Williams' public claim her extended break from The Wendy Williams Show was for 'medical reasons'.

She later clarified that she was grappling with complications surrounding her Graves' disease, which effects the thyroid, and a fractured shoulder.

But it's now believed Williams' personal problems run much deeper.

Over the past two weeks since returning to the show, DailyMailTV has observed Williams being picked up from the facility every morning by a driver at 7am and taken to the Manhattan studio.

Once her show is finished in the early afternoon her husband collects her, usually in a brand new green Rolls Royce SUV, and takes her back to the halfway house.

'There are some shady characters coming and going from that place, it's on a residential street above a barbershop,' one observer told DailyMail.com. 

'You see recovering drug addicts standing outside having a smoke, it looks like four or five people are staying there at any one time.

'It's certainly the last place you'd expect to see Wendy Williams.' 

DailyMailTV has learned Wendy's troubles began last December when the star hired a private investigator to spy on her husband who she suspected was still carrying on with his mistress Sharina Hudson.

In 2017, Hudson had been at the center of a DailyMailTV expose revealing her ten-year affair with Williams' husband.

After being told the secret affair was still very much alive, the TV host confronted Hunter demanding to know why he was still seeing the 33-year-old qualified massage therapist.

During the heated clash, it's believed Williams fell and hit her shoulder on the ground, suffering a hairline fracture.

Devastated, Williams quickly plunged into a depression while recovering from the injury and began drinking heavily.

During the time away from hosting her show, Williams' drinking - coupled with powerful pain medication -  proved a potent cocktail.

Williams, who has a history of drug addiction, became hooked.

'Kevin and Wendy are still together but things have been extremely difficult between them,' a source told DailyMailTV.

'Wendy hired a private eye last year to watch her husband because she was suspicious Kevin was still seeing Sharina.

'Her suspicions were well founded and Wendy was furious.' 

The source continued: 'She confronted Kevin and during the row she fell to the ground and broke her shoulder.

'Kevin called the show and said she walked into a wall and he had to take her to ER.

'But after the shoulder injury Wendy started drinking and popping pills again.' 

The source says show execs were expecting Williams to return to work on January 7 but were told by her husband she wasn't ready to come back.

Her return date was then moved to January 14. 

The show then announced that the mother-of-one would be taking a further week off from her hosting duties, setting her return date as January 21.

But in a statement Williams announced an indefinite hiatus from The Wendy Williams Show, citing complications related to her Graves' disease and her fractured shoulder.

In a statement posted to Instagram titled: 'A Note from The Hunter Family,' it stated the star would be spending time in the hospital.

'As Wendy Williams Hunter previously shared, she fractured her shoulder and has been on the mend. Over the past few days, Wendy has

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