Joaquin Phoenix, who recently won the Golden Globe for Best Actor based on his performance in Joker, was born with a mild cleft lip. He bears a small, nonsurgical scar as a result.

Cleft lip, cleft palate.” Williams then proceeded to hook her finger in her lip and imitate the common birth defect, which occurs when a baby’s lips or mouth do not form properly .

Wendy Williams has apologized for seemingly making controversial comments and gestures about Joaquin Phoenix's cleft palate during her talk show last week. The 55-year-old talk show host was ...

Williams pulled her top lip up over her teeth to demonstrate the look of a cleft. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both a cleft lip and a cleft palate “are birth ...

Wendy Williams is apologizing for offending people who suffer for cleft lips and cleft palates after she caught a ton of heat over making fun of the scar on the face of Joaquin Phoenix. The talk ...

Wendy Williams referred to actor Joaquin Phoenix’s lip scar as a cleft palate and mimicked the rather common birth defect on the Jan. 7 edition of “The Wendy Williams Show,” and people are ...

Phoenix has never said he had a cleft lip or palate. In a Vanity Fair profile published in October, it was reported that his lip scar was “not a surgically fixed cleft, he says, but a ...

Wendy Williams Apologizes for Mocking Joaquin Phoenix's 'Cleft ... moment while discussing Joaquin Phoenix where she tried to mimic a cleft palate by pulling her lip up with her finger ...

After being slammed for appearing to mock those with cleft lips and palates, Wendy Williams has apologized. Posted 2020-01-16T13:06:18+00:00 - Updated 2020-01-16T13:03:44+00:00 ...

JOAQUIN PHOENIX is the talk of Hollywood this month with several Oscar nominations under his belt, but why has chat show host Wendy Williams been forced to apologise to the star? What is a cleft lip?

(CNN) — After being slammed for appearing to mock those with cleft lips and palates, Wendy Williams has apologized. The daytime talk show host ran afoul of some parents and activists after ...