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Former radio and TV host Wendy Willams continues to struggle for her freedom. On Monday, the 60-year-old personality was transferred from her assisted living community to a New York hospital for evaluation after she dropped a note that said ‘Help, Wendy.’ The New York Post reports that NYPD officers escorted Williams from the fifth floor of the building where she is currently living, and she was transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Williams has been living under guardianship since May 2022, when her bank, Wells Fargo, discovered unusual activity in her accounts. In 2024, her Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams alarmed viewers when it showed a sometimes hard-to-follow Williams who appeared to have mentally and physically declined since her heyday on The Wendy Williams Show.
Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia and is currently designated as “legally incapacitated.” She has filed legal papers to end the guardianship.
Her guardian, Sabrina Morrisey, who filed a lawsuit against Lifetime for airing the doc despite Williams’ obvious issues, has recently been accused of ‘elder abuse’ after reportedly sending Williams to see her 94-year-old father in Miami with no money.
In February, Williams acknowledged that her son Kevin Hunter, Jr. was “overstepping” on a credit card provided for him through Wells Fargo. He denied misusing the funds.
“My son overstepped his boundaries. He overstepped his boundaries in terms of me. He was inappropriately using my money without telling me anything about it,” Williams told the 2 Angry Men podcast in February. “That’s when my money got stolen.”
Williams has become more vocal recently, doing phone interviews with TMZ, The Breakfast Club, and Don Lemon’s YouTube channel. She says she’s being held at the facility against her will and has limited money and interaction with the outside world, a situation that mirrors Britney Spears’s infamous conservatorship.
After being transported to Lenox Hill Hospital, Williams was given a battery of tests, receiving a perfect 10 in mental acuity, per TMZ. Williams denies she has either of the disorders she was diagnosed with. Her case has drawn comparisons to that of Spears, who was said to have mental health issues when she was placed into a conservatorship overseen by her father in 2008.
Williams has asked to be reevaluated so that she can exercise more control over her life and join her extended family in Miami. She called in to Good Day New York to talk to its longtime host, Rosanna Scotto.
“I passed with flying colors,” Williams told Scotto about the recent testing. “I want [to be] independently tested. That’s what I want, and that’s what I got. Look, it’s not that I’m scared to talk,” she added. “It’s just under these circumstances, there are certain people that I don’t care to talk to or talk about, you know what I’m saying.”
Williams is expected to call into The View on Friday to generate more public support to be released from the guardianship. Going public helped Spears, whose fans also called for her release from the restrictive oversight. She was granted the end of the conservatorship in 2021.
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