Wendy Williams wants out of her guardianship. On Friday, the 60-year-old former host of The Wendy Williams Show called in to The View and said in no
Wendy Williams wants out of her guardianship. On Friday, the 60-year-old former host of The Wendy Williams Show called in to The View and said in no uncertain terms that she wants her conservatorship, run by court-appointed elder-law attorney Sabrina Morrissey, to end: “I don’t want Sabrina—period.”
In 2022, Williams was placed under a court-ordered conservatorship after a bank claimed that she was a “victim of undue influence and financial exploitation.” In 2023 she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia, which was revealed to the public in February of 2024. Under a guardianship run by Morrissey, Williams has been living for almost a year in the memory care unit of a New York City assisted living facility.
On Monday, the New York Post reported that Williams had dropped a note that read “Help! Wendy!!” out of the window of her fifth-story room at the NYC care facility. She was subsequently removed from the assisted living facility and taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where she reportedly passed a psychological evaluation, scoring 10 out of 10 on the capacity test.
On Friday, Williams called in to The View from the care unit with Ginalisa Monterroso, founder and president of the Connect Care Advisory Group, and addressed her living situation and guardianship. View hosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin spoke with Williams and Monterroso over the phone for approximately 20 minutes across two separate segments.
Williams sounded lucid over the phone, beginning the conversation by explaining the circumstances that led to her trip to the hospital. “I went to the hospital. I was having a little agita,” she said. “There’s a hospital where I live…[but] I just needed a breath of fresh air, you know what I’m saying? I needed to see the doctor.” Williams said that she got her blood drawn at the hospital and independently chose to receive a psych evaluation. “How dare they say I have incapacitation,” said an irate Williams. “I do not.” Some of the View hosts affirmed Williams’s claim that she is not psychologically impaired. “You sound okay to me,” said Behar.
Williams made it very clear that she has had enough of the assisted living facility. “I am not permitted to do anything but stay on this floor, the memory unit floor, where these people are 90 and 80 and 70,” she said. “Look, I’m 60. Why am I here…where people don’t remember anything?” She said that at the facility, she mostly stays in her bedroom and doesn’t engage with the other residents. Hostin noted that Williams had helped launch her career by giving Hostin a spot on her radio show, which Williams said she remembered.
“I am a college-educated woman. I’m a global, international person,” Williams said. “I’ve been doing important things all of my life.” She continued, referring to the guardian and the judge in her case: “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.”
She went on to further rail against Morrissey and the judge, making it exceedingly clear that she wants out of her guardianship. “Get off my neck,” she said. “I can’t do it with these two people again. I can’t. And I’m speaking of the guardian and the judge.”
After a commercial break, Monterroso explained why Williams had been put under the guardianship in the first place. She said that Wells Fargo had noticed “unusual activity” in Williams’s bank account, with the bank proceeding to freeze the account and initiate a guardianship. Williams then said that she didn’t mind the guardianship “at all” at first, because it was there to protect her money. However, now she’s had enough.
“I want to terminate the guardianship and move on with my life, if that’s possible at all,” she said.
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