Wendy Williams has reportedly been deemed to be “alert and oriented” after acing a psychiatric evaluation done after she wasremoved from her assisted living homeby ambulance Monday.
Sources told TMZ that a psychiatrist examined the former “Wendy Williams Show” host at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and declared that her “mental capacity is fully intact.”
The insiders told the outlet that Williams, 60, “scored 10 out of 10” on a “capacity test” and “answered every correctly.”
Page Six has reached out to Williams’ reps but did not receive an immediate response.
Wendy Williams has reportedly aced a psychiatric evaluation completed after she was taken away from her assisted living home by ambulance Monday.Matthew McDermott
The tabloid’s insiders alleged that Williams, 60, “scored 10 out of 10” on a “capacity test” and “answered every correctly.”Matthew McDermott The tabloid was also told that the results of the exam will be forwarded to a judge who is looking into Williams’ case toend her guardianshipafter shedenied her frontotemporal dementia diagnosisin January.
TMZ’s sources added that the former talk show host was not examined to determine if she was misdiagnosed with FTD — a diagnosis she received in early 2024.
The results of the exam will be forwarded to a judge who is looking into Williams’ case to end her guardianship after she has repeatedly denied her frontotemporal dementia diagnosis this year.Matthew McDermott
The results of her alleged exam come after she wrote a note that read “Help! Wendy!!” asking paparazzi to help her leave the assisted living facility.Elder Ordonez/INSTARimages
“Help! Wendy!!” a note Williams wrote and tossed to a photographer from the window of her fifth-story room read, according to The Post.
Police were called to perform a wellness check around 11.15 a.m., after she dropped the note.
The former radio host wore a white T-shirt, black leggings and a long cardigan when leaving the facility.
Williams’ latest evaluation and exit from the facility comes one month after she made moves to formally end her guardianship.
The former radio host (seen here in 2019) has formally requested for a judge to remove her legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, as Williams has denied that she has FTD.Getty Images
On Feb. 12 sources told TMZ that Williams signed an affidavit and requested that a judge remove her legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey.
In the docs, she allegedly claimed that she has “regained capacity” to function without a guardian.
Williams was set to be “re-evaluated by a doctor” on Feb. 18 after repeatedly denying her FTD diagnosis during several phone appearances on “The Breakfast Club.”
Morrissey responded to Williams’ claims that she doesn’t have FTD and requested a new medical exam that would “involve comprehensive neurological and psychological testing by a specialist in the field.”
Williams claims that she has “regained capacity” to function independently and also fired her court-appointed attorney, Linda Redlisky, in January.NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
She has been spotted out in public a few times during her fight to end the guardianship, including attending her son Kevin Hunter Jr.’s graduation from college in December 2024.Kevin Hunter Jr/Instagram
At the end of January, Williams fired her court-appointed attorney, Linda Redlisky, as she continues her attempts to end the guardianship.
Since taking a step back from the spotlight and leaving “The Wendy Williams Show” in 2021, Williams has been spotted out and about a few times.
That’s what happened to me in 2022, when JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, abruptly canceled our newly opened account for the National Committee for Religious Freedom.
I started NCRF after spending decades in public life, including three years in the first Trump administration serving as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, leaves the U.S. Capitol after a meeting with Republican members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on the issue of debanking on Thursday, February 13, 2025.CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
The group proactively defends the constitutional freedom of religion so that all Americans can peaceably live according to their faith. Our advisory board includes Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Christian leaders from a wide variety of mainstream denominations.
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Yet, when I tried to deposit a donation at a local Chase branch, I was informed the bank had closed our account — without giving me any reason why.
The following week, we received an official letter stating that we were no longer Chase customers.
Over the course of the next year, a stream of Chase employees offered up no fewer than four conflicting explanations for why it had canceled our account.
The excuse-making culminated at the company’s 2023 annual shareholder meeting, where CEO Jamie Dimon incorrectly claimed — for the first time — that we had failed to properly fill out our initial paperwork.
Sam Brownback alleges that victims of having their bank accounts canceled were conservative or religious.CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
It was the fifth and final justification for why his bank had canceled our account. What his rationale lacked in creativity it more than made up for in obstinance.
But I’m the son of a Kansas farmer, so I’m no stranger to dealing with stubbornness.
By the time of that annual meeting, NCRF had already launched a national campaign to collect and tell the stories of those who, like us, had been canceled or punished by their banks, payment processors or even insurance companies.
We found that most debanking victims have two things in common: Their finances are in order, and they’re conservative or religious.
We also learned that even before NCRF opened its short-lived Chase account, the bank had already established a disturbing track record of targeting conservatives.
Donald Trump Jr. and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Jr., two others closely associated with the first Trump administration, also faced debanking by Chase.
In both cases, the bank cited vague terms of service, including “possible reputational risk to our company,” only to reverse course after swift public backlash.
Meanwhile, other banks followed Chase’s lead.
Most notably, Bank of America canceled accounts of Christian ministries like Timothy Two Project International and Indigenous Advance Ministries, a charity that serves hurting widows and orphans in Uganda.
Indigenous Advance’s case was uniquely egregious, according to Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal organization that represented the group. In addition to closing the ministry’s account, Bank of America shuttered the account of a local supporting church as well.
Those of us raising the concern in the public square — which came to include then-candidate Donald Trump, whose wife and youngest son were also denied bank accounts — were laughed off by the likes of “Saturday Night Live,” which mocked our experiences as fictional.
But representatives at Chase began to take our concerns seriously.
JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, abruptly canceled our newly opened account for the National Committee for Religious Freedom, writes Brownback.CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
We notched our first victory in late 2023, when Chase’s payment-processing arm WePay quietly dropped a “social risk” policy that included subjective terms like “hate” and “intolerance.” In practice, that allowed bank employees to cancel or punish customers based on their viewpoints.
Now a true sea-change at Chase is on the horizon: In response to conversations with ADF attorneys and shareholders, Chase has agreed to adopt language in its corporate code of conduct to protect customers against any future instances of political and religious debanking.
It’s the first major US bank to make such a course correction.
The new policy specifies that Chase will “not tolerate discrimination” against customers, suppliers, contractors, employees or others affiliated with Chase “based on … religion, religious affiliation, or religious views … [or] political opinions, speech or affiliations.”
For those of us who’ve had the fiscal rug pulled out from under us, Chase’s new commitments mark a crucial milestone in the fight against politicized debanking.
But the battle is far from over:Ending this discriminatory practiceacross the industry remains a long haul, requiring sustained pressure and vigilance.
No one should fear that their bank could punish them for their religious or political views — and we’ll keep fighting until every American is free from that threat.
Sam Brownback, chairman of the National Committee for Religious Freedom, served as US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom from 2018 to 2021.
