It has been a bumpy street for daytime discuss present host Wendy Williams, particularly since her namesake program shut down — though there are some “Wendy Williams Present” moments we are going to always remember. When Williams disappeared from the general public eye round 2022, nervous followers might solely speculate about the place the beloved diva was. However once we lastly came upon what was occurring with Williams, it was nonetheless arduous to consider. Receiving the twin diagnoses of main progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023, Williams was additionally issued right into a conservatorship. Whereas this alone is perhaps trigger to fret concerning the well being and wellness of Williams, the story continues to be twisting out and getting extra lurid because it goes.

When Williams made a serious public reemergence in 2024, her followers took discover of how wholesome she appeared. On the time she launched a press release to The Hollywood Reporter indicating she was having fun with her time away from the general public eye. A part of it learn, “I proceed to want private house and peace to thrive.” However when Williams made a bombshell name into “The Breakfast Membership” in January of 2025, her tune had actually modified. After the relatively exploitative documentary “The place is Wendy Williams?” aired on Lifetime, it acquired the ball in movement for Williams to lastly begin pushing her means out of her conservatorship by highlighting a number of causes we should always all be involved for her.

When calling into “The Breakfast Membership,” Wendy Williams gave her scorching tackle rapper Diddy’s arrest, whereas utilizing the chance to lambast her present dwelling state of affairs. Below her conservatorship and being given the double whammy dementia and aphasia diagnoses, Williams was positioned in a relatively restrictive care facility. Not solely are guests unable to entry her, however based on Williams, her conservator Sabrina Morrissey has solely supplied her with a telephone unable to simply accept incoming calls or have entry to the web. Williams mentioned, “I really feel like I’m in jail.”

Past her present isolation, Williams is sad with the ability she’s housed in because it seems to be an elder care establishment as an alternative of a reliable place to deal with her. Williams, who herself is in her 60s, continued, “I am on this place the place the persons are of their 90s and their 80s and their 70s. There’s one thing improper with these folks right here on this ground.”

Williams’ personal niece, Alex Finnie, admitted to making an attempt to go to her aunt and located it to be overly troublesome to get by way of the stringent safety. “I went to … go to her. And the extent of safety and the extent of questions … of, ‘Who am I? Why am I right here? What is the goal?’ I imply, it was completely simply horrible.” Nevertheless it wasn’t simply Williams and Finnie who seen issues had been off, TMZ additionally made a documentary of their very own for the daytime host.

Within the TubiTV documentary “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams,” TMZ’s personal founder, Harvey Levin, goes to the ability the place Wendy Williams is being housed to additional discover her claims of mistreatment. One of many shocking issues Williams and Britney Spears share is a really strict guardianship that is troublesome and expensive to get out of — although fortunately Spears was finally capable of wiggle out of hers. Nevertheless, what Levin found throughout his interviews with Williams is that her guardianship is probably even denying her essential medical care.

When Levin requested Williams when she final noticed a health care provider, the previous tv host mentioned, “An extended whereas.” Williams claims she hasn’t seen anybody who can assess her psychological state since she arrived on the facility in New York just a few months previous to the interview, nor throughout her time at a separate spot in Connecticut for an entire yr. Nevertheless, Williams has purpose to wish to get a second opinion now that she appears to be regaining a few of her colleges.

“I am not incapacitated,” Williams mentioned in reference to the courtroom filings her conservator Sabrina Morrissey submitted, which claimed Williams was “cognitively impaired and completely incapacitated.” The dearth of entry to medical professionals who can test on Williams is in the end regarding as there’s proof that Williams’ prognosis might have been inaccurate.

In response to Leah Croll, a neurologist in New York Metropolis, there might have been a purpose for Wendy Williams’ erratic habits that led to her monetary loss and by extension, led to her conservatorship (through Individuals). Williams’ historical past of abusing alcohol and different medication might have contributed to her presenting as an individual with aphasia and deep reminiscence loss. Croll even admitted that with the ability to decide if a affected person has dementia or is battling the consequences of alcoholism is not straightforward. Since Williams has been sober for some time and can be exhibiting indicators of psychological readability, this means it is perhaps time for a reassessment. If Williams can entry the care.

It does appear that Sabrina Morrissey, Williams’ guardian, may additionally be eager to do that. On February 5, Morrissey formally utilized for a “new medical analysis” for Williams. That is additionally on the heels of Morrissey pursuing authorized motion towards A&E — the dad or mum firm of Lifetime — for the documentary “The place is Wendy Williams?” In response to Morrissey, the lawsuit is meant to “get well substantial financial damages for the good thing about [Williams],” which looks like signal, however Morrissey is probably making an attempt to stay in management. Within the submitting Morrissey mentions, “The difficulty of whether or not [Williams] has the capability to evaluate what’s in her personal finest pursuits deserves renewed cautious consideration by certified consultants, and shouldn’t be left to careless hypothesis in tabloids, radio, or on the Web.”

Whereas being interviewed by Harvey Levin for “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams,” Wendy Williams acquired trustworthy about how tragic her actual life is. When Levin requested her (through Each day Mail), “Are you allowed to exit?” Williams responded with a heartfelt, “No, no. I’m not allowed to exit.” Williams then detailed how she has repeatedly requested Sabrina Morrissey for her personal telephone again or not less than an iPad. It appears Morrissey has positioned intensive restrictions on Williams, whilst Williams exhibits indicators of restoration. However when Levin requested Williams about how usually she will get to go exterior, it was an enormous revelation.

“Within the final 30 days I went out twice,” Williams answered, acknowledging that each occasions had been for going to the dentist and nothing else. When Williams talked about this, Levin identified that based on the choose who handed Morrissey the guardianship of Williams, Morrissey is “to allow Wendy as a lot independence as is sensible.” At this, each Williams and Levin appeared to acknowledge that the present state of dwelling for Williams is much from unbiased. “This method has failed from prime to backside concerning this guardian and everyone concerned with that,” Williams spouted earlier than persevering with with, “I would like my freedom again. How about that?” With the assistance of her household, Williams simply may get what she desires.

Even after the fallout between Williams and her son, it grew to become obvious her household was able to step up. In response to the Each day Mail, her household is now in search of a brand new lawyer to get her out of her present guardianship. In an official assertion, her household says they need “to deal with the present circumstances surrounding her guardianship and her ongoing journey towards reclaiming her self-determination.” Not solely are they looking for out the Ben Crump Legislation Agency to take over the proceedings, the household can be elevating funds to primarily purchase Williams out of her present place.

Per Each day Mail, a GoFundMe was launched to lift the cash wanted to launch Williams from her guardianship, in addition to get her out of the clutches of lawyer Roberta Kaplan. Kaplan was largely chargeable for claiming that Williams was unfit to take care of herself. Williams herself responded to TMZ saying, “How would she know that? I’ve by no means met Roberta Kaplan and I’ve by no means talked along with her. I am remoted and locked away in a luxurious jail.”

In response to TMZ’s Harvey Levin, after he interviewed her he admitted that “the Wendy Williams that I spoke to at the moment is similar Wendy Williams that I knew 10 years in the past … She was lucid, she was articulate, she was with it, and she or he was opinionated.” It is good to see Williams make a comeback, hopefully she will be able to absolutely discover her means out from beneath her guardianship.