Fans of Wendy Williams plan to take to the streets to show support for the former talk show host as she fights to be released from a court-appointed guardianship.
Flyers have been circulating around social media announcing bicoastal protests on April 1, in New York and Los Angeles at 10 a.m. local time.
The New York rally will take place at Coterie Hudson Yards, located at 505 W. 35th St.
The Los Angeles protest will be held at 6533 Hollywood Blvd., on the Hollywood Walk of Fame near the Capitol Records building.
The flyers urge fans to make their “voices heard for Wendy!”
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A source told People Williams plans to watch the New York rally from the window of her apartment.
A GoFundMe was launched earlier this year to raise $50,000 to help cover the radio legend’s legal services and court filing fees.
Williams, 60, was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023, her care team announced in February 2024.
The diagnosis followed her placement under guardianship in 2022, after Wells Fargo filed a petition in a New York court, citing concerns she was being financially exploited.
Williams recently did a string of interviews to dispute a claim that her guardian Sabrina Morrissey made in court documents last year that Williams was “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
She was interviewed by phone on the Jan. 16 episode of “The Breakfast Club.” She told her former radio co-host Charlamagne Tha God that she is “not impaired” and feels like she is being held “in a prison” at an assisted living facility in NYC.
On Feb. 12, TMZ released a documentary on Williams’ current living situation.
The film titled TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy showed Williams in a window, speaking by phone from her apartment. The media mogul said she is not allowed to go outside, lives under heavy security, and eats in her room because “it’s extremely depressing” to be around 90-year-olds with serious health problems.
TMZ said the only way a production crew could film the doc was to place a camera on the sidewalk, where they recorded Williams at the window on the 5th floor of her building, as she talked on the phone.
“This system is broken,” Williams said. “This system that I’m in, this system has falsified a lot.”
Earlier this month, Williams called in to The View. She said she had recently managed to get out of the facility and to a hospital as a crush of camera crews recorded her leaving.
She was evaluated by an independent physician and given a “capacity test” by a mental health professional, who confirmed she is not “incapacitated.”
“While I was at the hospital, I also got blood drawn for my thyroid, you know? But most importantly, being at the hospital, it was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it. How dare they say I have incapacitations! I do not,” Williams said.
Below are the details on Tuesday’s protests.
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