Friday, January 17, 2025 - Wendy Williams just broke her silence on the conservatorship she's been placed on.
The former talk show host and
her niece, Alex, called into Power 105.1's The Breakfast
Club, hosted by DJ Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Jess
Hilarious, on Thursday, Jan. 16.
During the interview, she spoke about her
court-mandated guardianship, comparing her life to a
"prison" these days.
Williams was first placed under financial
guardianship in 2022 when her financial advisor claimed she wasn't
of "sound mind." Her bank froze her accounts out of fear that
her reported cognitive issues would leave her susceptible to exploitation.
She was later diagnosed
with dementia and aphasia, the latter of which affects a
person's ability to communicate.
In November 2024, her guardian's
attorney filed documents in court claiming Williams was "cognitively
impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated."
“Do I seem that way, God damn it?” Wendy
Williams countered while calling into the radio show, declaring, “I am not
cognitively impaired."
"But I feel like I’m in prison,” she
said, referencing the New York City care facility she's reportedly been living
in since 2023. “I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their
80s and their 70s…There’s something wrong with these people here on this
floor,” she said to emphasize that the people she's been placed with require
medical attention which she feels she does not.
Her niece, Alex compared the facility to a
"luxury prison," describing the small "apartment" with a
singular window in which Williams lives.
While Williams can reportedly call
her family, they cannot contact her directly, and the media personality
claimed she is denied internet access. There is also a high-level security
presence that makes it difficult for family members to visit and impossible for
Williams to go anywhere.
Williams also countered claims in a lawsuit
filed by her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, in an attempt to put a stop
to A&E and Lifetime's docuseries about her. While Morrissey claimed the
project was exploitative, Williams says it was her idea in the first
place.
"Look, this system is broken, this
system that I’m in. This system has falsified a lot,” she emphasized. "Who
I naturally am is who I naturally am."
Listen to Wendy speak below.
Wendy Williams said she isn't incapacitated or impaired, she said she's in JAIL pic.twitter.com/igMXDI3XpV
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