Wendy Williams wants out. During an appearance on The View Friday, the former talk show host and media personality continued her campaign pushing back against evaluations that have deemed her cognitively impaired and incapacitated, which have kept her in an unwanted guardianship since 2022.
“How dare they say I have incapacitation,” Williams said. “I do not!” The 60-year-old called into The View for her segment, which ran for under 30 minutes. Earlier this week, Williams was transported from her assisted living facility in New York to a hospital via ambulance. “I needed a breath of fresh air,” she said. “I needed to see the doctor, so that’s why I went to the hospital.” At the hospital, Williams said, she voluntarily underwent an independent psych test and submitted bloodwork related to a thyroid condition.
After the visit, Williams went out to dinner with her niece. “We left the hospital by ambulance, and we stayed [at the living facility] for about an hour because we knew were going out to eat, just to celebrate life,” Williams said. When she arrived back at the facility after dining at Tucci, she continued, two staffers were waiting for her downstairs. “I’m not permitted to do anything but stay on this floor, memory unit,” she said, noting that most other residents on the floor are elderly. “I’m 60,” Williams added. “Why am I here!?”
She also expressed feeling misunderstood and restricted by her guardianship, currently helmed by her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, and a guardianship judge. “I’m a college-educated woman, you know. I’m a global, international person from radio to television. I’ve been doing important things all of my life,” she said. “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 get off my neck.”
In speaking out against her court-ordered conservatorship and claims from her own team that she had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, she seemingly hopes to regain a sense of control and autonomy in her own life. “I need a new guardian,” she said. “I need a new guardian, and then I’ll get out of guardianship.”
Williams has echoed similar sentiments throughout the year while calling into shows like The Breakfast Club and Good Day New York. “What do I think about being abused? Listen, look, this system is broken,” she said on The Breakfast Club in January. “This system that I’m in. This system has falsified a lot.”
