Wendy Williams is talking out towards her authorized guardian who stated final yr that the previous TV host is “cognitively impaired, completely disabled and legally incompetent.”
The daytime discuss character, 60, stated Thursday morning: “I haven’t got any cognitive issues.” They known as Williams and his niece Alex Finnie “The Breakfast Club” radio show.the place they raised issues about Williams’ care below the care of Sabrina Morrissey.
“I really feel like I’m imprisoned,” Williams stated.
Williams was positioned below monetary conservatorship amid a authorized battle with Wells Fargo in 2022. That identical yr, “The Wendy Williams Show” aired its ultimate episode after 13 seasons. The daytime collection was canceled attributable to its host’s bodily, psychological and monetary difficulties.
Since 2022, Williams has obtained remedy at an undisclosed facility – a “luxurious jail” in New York, his niece stated Thursday. Williams and Finnie spoke to “The Breakfast Club” in regards to the alleged tight safety on the facility and accused Morrissey of stopping the previous radio host from seeing and contacting his family members.
Morrissey’s position as Williams’ authorized guardian gained public consideration final yr forward of Lifetime’s four-part documentary “Where Is Wendy Williams?” Before the documentary’s launch in February, information broke that Williams had been recognized with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. That identical week, Morrissey filed a lawsuit towards “Where Is Wendy Williams?” group, together with lifetime mum or dad firm A+E Networks. At the time, Morrissey requested a restraining order “prohibiting publication of (the) documentary,” however a New York choose gave Lifetime the inexperienced gentle to proceed.
On Thursday, Williams dodged questions in regards to the documentary (“I do not need to watch it once more,” “I do not need to speak about it”) and doubled down on her cognitive state. In a September authorized submitting, Morrissey stated Williams “didn’t have the capability to consent to be filmed” for the Lifetime documentary and that her diagnoses of dementia and aphasia had left her “cognitively impaired.”
“How dare he,” Williams stated Thursday. “Do I appear like that to you?”
She added: “For the final three years I’ve been trapped within the system.”
Finnie, who has spoken out publicly towards her aunt’s guardian, inspired “The Breakfast Club” listeners to unfold the phrase about Williams’ expertise and take motion “to verify my aunt is in a spot the place she will be able to dwell her his life with dignity”. He known as on Williams’ guardians to “give her the liberty she deserves.”
Before the brand new yr, Williams attended her son Kevin Hunter Jr.’s commencement. Williams stated she hopes to spend a while with household to have fun her father’s 94th birthday, however stated — apparently holding again tears – which Morrissey could not enable. “My life is like bullshit,” Williams stated.
Roberta Kaplan, an lawyer representing Morrissey within the lawsuit towards A&E, supported the guardian’s September claims about Williams’ cognitive well being. Kaplan stated in an announcement Thursday that “a state courtroom has discovered her to be legally incompetent, that means she is unable to make authorized and monetary selections on her personal.”
Kaplan added: “Unfortunately, attributable to her prognosis, Wendy’s situation will solely worsen with time and he or she would require take care of the remainder of her life. But as anybody who has had a member of the family with dementia is aware of, Wendy has each good days and dangerous days. It’s actually unlucky that there’s a lot voyeuristic consideration proper now, as a result of it solely results in the identical type of exploitation that we noticed within the so-called documentary, as alleged in our grievance.”
Towards the tip of his “Breakfast Club” look, Finnie condemned the “damaged” guardianship system. Last month, Hunter additionally expressed concern for his mom and advised followers that his mom was “sober and desires to go residence.”
“The longer he’s below this conservatorship, the longer they’ll have the keys to his life,” Finnie stated, “to his private life, his monetary life, his emotional life… every part.”
