Who is Ciera Payton? Learn more about the actress playing Wendy Williams on Lifetime

And I didn’t even know that they were doing a movie about Wendy Williams," she recalls.

And I was like, ‘What?

Look at God!'"

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When COVID-19 hit the United States though, it derailed both projects.

Two weeks later, I was on a flight to Vancouver to shootWendy Williams."

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