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Wendy Williams Lashes Out Against Guardian & Claims She’s ‘Cognitively Impaired’: ‘I Feel Like I’m In Prison’
Talk show host Wendy Williams has spoken out against the reports that she is “cognitively impaired.”
Williams has been under guardianship since The Wendy Williams Show ended in 2022, and Wells Fargo, her bank, announced that she was an “incapacitated person” experiencing “undue influence and financial exploitation.” Last year, it was announced by Williams’ team that she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, which rendered her “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
On Thursday morning, Williams called into the radio show The Breakfast Club to say, “I am not cognitively impaired, you know what I’m saying? But I feel like I’m in prison.”
She rhetorically asked hosts DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious and Charlemagne The God, “Do I seem that way, god damn it? 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.”
Williams’s niece, Alex, also called in to support Williams on the show and said that her family cannot contact Williams and Williams is not allowed access to the internet.
Alex described the New York City care facility Williams is staying at as “a bed, a chair, a TV, a bathroom, and she’s looking out one window at buildings across the street. That’s her life.”
Williams referred to her guardian as “that person that you talk about who is holding me hostage.”
“I am exhausted thinking about, what if I can’t see my dad for his birthday? At 94, the day after that is not promised,” she said. “My life is, like, f—ed up.”
Williams added that she has spent her last three birthdays alone because of the facility’s security standards, declaring, “This is what is called emotional abuse.”
The four-part Lifetime documentary Where is Wendy Williams was embroiled in controversy when Williams’ guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, sued ahead of the docuseries release to try and prevent it from being aired, claiming that Williams was exploited. In return, A&E Lifetime countersued Morrissey, alleging that she was upset that the series featured criticism of her role as a guardian.
Williams said on The Breakfast Club that she and Morrissey watched the documentary together. “She was the one who wanted to do that, you understand what I’m saying?” she said. “What do I think about being abused? Look, this system is broken, this system that I’m in, this system has falsified a lot.”
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Article by Baila Eve Zisman
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