Wendy Williams Rips Legal Guardianship In Conversation With ‘The View’: ‘How Dare They Say I Have An Incapacitation!’

In a pre-recorded interview that aired on Friday, former talk show legend Wendy Williams spoke with the hosts of The View and shared details about her conservatorship battle against her legal guardian Sabrina Morrissey. 

Over the phone, Williams told the women that her visit to the hospital earlier that week had been of her own volition, in contrast to reports that Williams had been taken against her will. Before being taken to the hospital that week, Williams had thrown a note reading “HELP! WENDY!” from her window down to the street and was seen waving desperately.

Williams informed the panel that she had chosen to go to the hospital for an independent psychiatric evaluation and bloodwork for her thyroid condition 

“Where I live, at this memory unit on this floor, I just needed a breath of fresh air,” she said. “I needed to see the doctors, so, that’s why I went to the hospital.”

She continued to tell the hosts, “It was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it…how dare they say I have incapacitation.”

Williams criticized Morrissey and the judge overseeing her case, saying, “I’m a global, international media person, from radio to television. I’ve been doing important things all of my life, and these two people don’t look like me, they don’t dress like me, they don’t talk like me, they don’t act like me, and I venture to say they will never be me. I need them to, you know, get off my neck. I can’t do it with these two people again. I can’t. I’m speaking of the guardian and the judge. I need a new guardian. By the way, it’s because I need a new guardian, and then I’ll get out of a guardian.”

Williams was diagnosed with Graves disease in 2018, and in February 2024 she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia. When it was revealed Williams had been put under a conservatorship with Morrissey in 2022, Morrissey claimed that Williams was “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.”

Williams has continually spoken out against her perceived declining mental acuity, calling her treatment “emotional abuse,” insisting she does not have dementia, and describing her life as “prison.”

Williams’ caretaker Ginalisa Monterroso, who is unaffiliated with her conservatorship, also spoke to The VIew about Williams’ situation, explaining that while the conservatorship was initially voluntary, put in place to protect Williams’ finances. “What ended up happening was Wendy didn’t realize that this person was going to take her whole entire life,” she said.

Williams recently experienced another restriction in her rights, as her niece took her out of the care unit she lives in for dinner – as is supposedly permitted of Williams – and the facility called the police accusing the niece of kidnapping.