Wendy Williams Slams Nicki Minaj For Mocking Suspected Mentally Ill Woman In Instagram Video

Talk show host Wendy Williams slammed rapper Nicki Minaj Tuesday after the rapper mocked a suspected mentally ill woman. The “Black Barbies” star posted the video to her official Instagram account, which led her nearly 70 million followers to debate about Minaj’s actions.

“I don’t know if Nicki was on one or what at the time, but you know, you need to be a lot more sensitive to mental illness,” the host, 52, said on “The Wendy Williams Show.” “And I know we all have our ways, we forget about being sensitive and stuff, that was a direct, buzz the window down, sit, probably a car full of people that are smart enough to tell her, ‘Yo, Nicki, alright, stop making jokes. Nicki, you’re going to post that? Wait, don’t post that. Don’t post it.’ So she’s surrounded by stunods.”

Stunod is Italian slang for the word stonato, which means “out of tune.” Generally, it’s used to call someone an idiot.

Minaj, 33, giggled in the post from Monday, which was filmed in Miami's South Beach. “Miss, what did I do? Can we talk?” she says in the video, which was captioned with a crying face emoji. “Come over here.” By Thursday, the post garnered more than 2.4 million views and generated nearly 18,000 comments.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, a renowned mental health organization, condemned the New York rapper’s actions. “Nobody would make fun of a cancer patient, and mental illness is an illness like any other,” a rep for NAMI said in a statement to TMZ Monday.

The name of the woman has not been released. It’s reportedly well-known among people in the Miami community that the person Minaj filmed is mentally unstable. TMZ argued Minaj might not have known the woman she taunted she was unwell.

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