Wendy Williams broke down in tears while revealing that she’s “trapped” in her conservatorship on “The Breakfast Club” Thursday morning.
The 60-year-old TV icon called into Charlamagne tha God’s radio show and talked about the court-ordered guardianship that has overseen her health and finances since 2022.
She’s currently in a facility in New York, where she is able to call her loved ones, but they are unable to call her. She also has no access to the internet via a laptop or iPad.
Williams, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia in 2023, insisted that she’s “not cognitively impaired,” adding, “Do I seem that way, God damn it?”
“I have $15,” Williams said, also claiming that her cats “are gone.”
The former talk show host explained that she can’t leave the facility where she’s being held.
“My life is f–ked up,” she said. “I feel like I’m in prison. I’m definitely isolated. I keep the door closed, I watch TV, listen to the radio and look out the window. Sit here as my life goes by.”
“I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s,” Williams explained. “There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor.”
Williams continued, “They won’t allow you to leave or have visitors. So you can’t even leave and take a walk if you wanted to, or take a trip or visit family members.”
“I don’t know if I’m going to be able to see my dad on his 94th birthday,” she continued while sobbing. “The day after that is not promised.”
Williams further claimed that she spent her last three birthdays alone in the facility, which she said has high security. “This is what is called emotional abuse,” she said.
Her niece, Alex Finnie, was on the call and defended Williams’ current mental state.
“Anybody that knows my aunt knows she’s always been a unique personality,” said Finnie. “How she’s talking, that’s her. That’s who she is. Don’t try to twist how she is.”
Williams was also asked about the 2024 Lifetime docuseries “Where Is Wendy Williams?” Her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, filed a lawsuit to try to stop the documentary from coming out. A&E and Lifetime countersued and said Morrissey knew Williams’ struggles would be shown in the doc.
“She was the one who wanted to do that, you understand what I’m saying?” Williams said on the radio show. “What do I think about being abused? Look, this system is broken, this system that I’m in. This system has falsified a lot.”
Last month, Morrissey declared in her lawsuit against Lifetime and A&E that Williams “has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated” as a result of her early onset dementia.
After being out of the spotlight for years, Williams recently resurfaced at her son Kevin Jr.’s college graduation in Miami in December.
That same month, she was seen smiling in the backseat of a car with her nephew, Travis Finnie, in Fort Lauderdale. She said her signature catchphrase, “How you doin’?,” in a video taken by a restaurant owner.
