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
— Ichigo Niggasake (@SomaKazima) January 16, 2025
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