Wendy Williams returned to daytime television Friday with an appearance on The View.
The former talk show host called in to the ABC program during the March 14 episode, to discuss her guardianship and being taken to a hospital for evaluation earlier this week during a welfare check.
“I went to the hospital. I was having a little angina. Where I live at this memory unit on this floor, I just needed a breath of fresh air. You know what I’m saying? I needed to see the doctors. So that’s why I went to the hospital,” Williams explained.
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She added that she was evaluated 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.
The radio and daytime TV legend was accompanied in the interview by Ginalisa Monterroso, founder and president of Connect Care Advisory Group, which advocates for patients navigating the health care system.
Williams, 60, talked about police being called because her niece Alex Finnie took her out to dinner.
“I thought it was great, at first. Alex and the boyfriend, they flew from Miami to New York. They got me at the hospital. Then, with permission from the guardian, of course, we left the hospital and we stayed here [at the facility] for, I don’t know, about an hour because we knew that we were going out just to celebrate, you know, life,” she said.
“We had a great dinner, and then when we got back here, when we finally got back here, you know, there was paparazzi, so we stopped,” she said. “That’s what I do. I stopped. I posed.”
She added, “Then, these two people who work here [at the care facility], they’re usually gone by like five o’clock… They’re still downstairs waiting for me… I’m like, ‘Oh my God, what is about to happen?’ It is a locked unit, like they have to use keys, the people who work here, to open it and take the elevator downstairs. I’m not permitted to do anything but stay on this floor. The memory unit floor, where the people are 90 and 80 and 70. Look, I’m 60, why am I here?”
Later, Williams criticized the judge in her case and her court-appointed guardian Sabrina Morrissey, whose attorney recently claimed the star is not being kept away from her family and is getting “excellent medical care.”
“These two people, they 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,” she said about the judge and guardian. “I need them to get off my neck!”
When asked what triggered the guardianship, Monterroso said it was caused by “unusual activity” with Williams’ account at Wells Fargo Bank. In 2022, the bank filed a petition with a New York court, citing concerns Williams was being financially exploited, as previously reported.
The TV star chimed in, “I didn’t mind it at that time at all, because it’s about my money and keeping my money safe. You understand what I’m saying? But at this point in my life, I want to terminate the guardianship and move on with my life, if that’s possible at all.”
Williams was also asked if she still uses drugs or alcohol.
“I’ve had my devices and I have to tell you something, I am easily going on with my life, alcohol-free, for the rest of my life,” she said.
The star was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023, according to her guardian.
In November 2024, Morrissey filed court documents alleging Williams was “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”
Williams has been fighting to be released from the guardianship and has turned to the media to help tell her story.
Watch the interview with Wendy Williams below:
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