How she doin’?
Wendy Williams, 60, referred to as into “The View” on Friday to talk with co-hosts Pleasure Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
The previous tv host began off the prerecorded interview by explaining why she went to the hospital on Monday.
“Well, I went to the hospital. I was having a little angina… I went to the hospital where I lived, you know what I’m saying, at this memory unit on this floor. I needed a breath of fresh air. I needed to see the doctors. That’s why I went to the hospital. And then when I was at the hospital I also got my blood drawn for my thyroid,” Williams advised the hosts.
“But most importantly, 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 incapacitation. I do not.”
Williams additionally addressed going to dinner along with her niece Alex Finnie on Wednesday, by which the New York Metropolis assisted dwelling facility the place she resides accused Finnie of kidnapping her aunt.
“Well, I thought it was great at first. Alex and her boyfriend they flew out from Miami to New York. They got me at the hospital. And then with permission from the guardian, of course, we left the hospital,” Williams defined. “We stayed here about an hour because we knew we were going out to eat. Just to celebrate, you know, life. I was off that floor for a moment. So we went to Tucci’s and we had a great dinner. When we finally got back here there was paparazzi so we stopped. That’s what I do. I stopped, I posed. You know what I’m saying?”
When she bought again to the ability, Williams seen two employees members ready for her.
“I’m like ‘oh my God, what is about to happen?’ It is a locked unit. They have to use keys — the people who work here — to take the elevator downstairs. I’m not permitted to do anything but stay on this floor. The memory unit floor where these people are 90 and 80 and 70. Look, I’m 60… Why am I here? Where people don’t remember anything. So I stay in the bedroom the majority of the time.”
Williams revealed, “I never go out to eat with them. I stay in the bedroom. Am I permitted to have my friend Gina come visit me? No.”
Hostin then talked about that Williams’ authorized guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has stated that the previous radio character was declared legally incapacitated by a decide on account of a 2023 dementia analysis and isn’t being stored from her household.
“The View” host added that the assertion notes Williams is receiving glorious medical care.
Earlier than Williams may tackle the claims, Hostin thanked her for “giving me my start” on the air earlier than asking her former mentor how she retains her spirits up when she is unable to do what she loves.
“I am glad you’re talking with me about that,” Williams admitted. “I am a college-educated woman, global international person from radio to television. I’ve been doing important things all of my life 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… They will never be me. I need them to — with my knees — get off my neck. I can’t do it with these two people again. I can’t. And I’m speaking of the guardians and the judge. I need a new guardian.”
Williams was joined on the telephone by Ginalisa Monterroso, the founder and president of Join Care Advisory Group, which goals to assist sufferers and caregivers navigate their advantages.
Monterroso defined that “the guardianship was triggered by Wells Fargo. There was some unusual activity going on in Wendy’s bank account and Wells Fargo froze the account and initiated a guardianship.”
Williams added that on the time, she was OK with having a guardian as a result of it was about defending her cash.
“But at this point in my life,” she acknowledged, “I want to terminate the guardianship and move on with my life, if that’s possible at all.”
Monterroso shared with the hosts that “Wendy didn’t realize this person was going to take her whole entire life,” to which the previous TV character chimed in, “Exactly! Everyone played really nice to me and I was like, ‘OK no problem. Where am I going next? I’m going to Connecticut.’”
“And next thing you know, from New York, I’m in Connecticut and the entire building is memory unit. It was the worst of all — it was worse than where I am in New York. Nothing but grass and trees and memory units. And why am I there?”
Williams claimed they remoted her.
“They took my phone so I have to call them, they can’t call me. And as far as family, that’s all I was calling. There were no friends that I could call because the guardian kept my phone and I’m in this memory unit in Connecticut. And then I moved to New York after a year being in Connecticut. And it’s the same thing. And here’s my life,” she shared.
If the guardianship have been to finish, Williams revealed, “First of all, I’m staying in New York.”
She went on to elucidate, “I don’t want a guardian. Put it this way, I don’t want Sabrina. Period,” including, “It’s been over three years. It’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo.”
Williams additionally took a second to the touch on her relationship with alcohol after previous substance abuse points, calling it “fine and wonderful.”
The New Yorker, who has been to rehab a number of instances, shared, “I am easily going on with my life alcohol free for the rest of my life.”
Nevertheless, Williams confessed she relapsed over the summer time, stating, “I must admit to you, that when I got from Connecticut to New York, it was my birthday, July 18, and yes, I celebrated,” she admitted. “You know what I’m saying?”
Williams spearheaded her speak present, “The Wendy Williams Show,” which aired for 14 seasons from 2008 to 2022 when the guardianship started. Throughout her time on the air, she sat in an iconic purple chair every episode as she ran down the new matters in Hollywood.
Right now, the chair is “in storage.”
“And the guardian, by the way, the last time I wanted to go to storage she told me no, I won’t be going to storage,” Williams shared. “All of my clothing, all of my sneakers, all of my handbags, everything in storage. And yes, the fabulous purple chair is in storage but when it comes out of storage I am keeping it with me for my life. It will definitely be in my new apartment.”
“The View” interview concludes an eventful week for the radio character, who tossed a handwritten word begging for assist out the window of her New York assisted dwelling facility on Monday.
The message learn: “Help! Wendy!!”
On the time, police and regulation enforcement sources advised The Submit that they acquired a name that morning after Williams threw the word from her room. The star was additionally seen waving her arms whereas on the telephone in entrance of her window that very same day.
She was then transported to Lenox Hill Hospital through ambulance and underwent a psychological examination referred to as a “capacity test.”
In accordance with TMZ, she scored a “10 out of 10,” answering all 10 questions used to find out whether or not she was alert and oriented accurately.
“The Wendy Williams Show” alum has been dwelling in a reminiscence care unit on the facility whereas combating to finish her court-ordered guardianship that was put in place in 2022.
She was additionally recognized with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023. Nevertheless, in latest months, Williams has been extra vocal about what’s going on in her life.
After the ordeal on Monday, Williams phoned Rosanna Scotto at “Good Day New York” to speak in regards to the cognitive take a look at.
“I passed with flying colors,” she advised the journalist stay on air. “I want [to be] independently tested. That’s what I want, and that’s what I got.”
“Look, it’s not that I’m scared to talk,” added Williams. “It’s just under these circumstances, there are certain people that I don’t care to talk to or talk about, you know what I’m saying.”
Williams claimed she is pressured to stay on the fifth ground and desires an escort to go away — even when she’s simply going to the health club on the third ground.
Scotto inquired if Williams can be keen to have a “sober companion” and a monetary advisor if she have been allowed to go away the ability.
“As far as a sober companion, I don’t need that,” Williams expressed. “I am not drinking, ever in my life. A financial advisor, I’ve had that. A financial advisor? Of course, of course a financial advisor, somebody to look after my money. Because the money that I have right now is all with my guardian person.”
In January, Williams and her niece, Alex Finnie, initially referred to as into “The Breakfast Club” to handle her aunt’s dwelling facility and psychological state.
“My life is f–ked up,” she shared. “I feel like I’m in prison. I’m definitely isolated. I keep the door closed, I watch TV, listen to the radio and look out the window. Sit here as my life goes by.”
Williams’ members of the family have continued to plead for her launch.
“She is in great shape mentally and physically,” her brother, Tommy Williams, advised Us Weekly on Wednesday. “Let her out.”
