Wendy Williams is fighting back against claims that she is incapacitated after the NYPD were called after a seemingly innocent dinner outing.
The 60-year-old talk show host stepped away from her syndicated talk show amid growing health concerns.
She was ᴀssigned a guardian – Sabrina Morrissey – in 2022, and she was placed in a facility to treat her ongoing health issues.
Williams was diagnosed with aphasia and frototemporal dementia in 2023, with Morrissey filing documents in 2024 that stated she was, ‘cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.’
Now Williams is fighting back against the ᴀssertion that she’s incapacatated, called in to The View in a taped phone interview segment that will air on Friday, via Page Six.
‘I’ve been doing important things all of my life and these two people don’t look like me. They don’t talk like me. They don’t act like me. They will never be me. I need them to get off my neck!’ Williams said in the interview.
Wendy Williams is fighting back against claims that she is incapacitated after the NYPD were called after a seemingly innocent dinner outing
‘I’ve been doing important things all of my life and these two people don’t look like me. They don’t talk like me. They don’t act like me. They will never be me. I need them to get off my neck!’ Williams said in the interview
She was ᴀssigned a guardian – Sabrina Morrissey – in 2022, and she was placed in a facility to treat her ongoing health issues.
She revealed that not only did she pᴀss her psych evaluation, but that it was her choice to get the evaluation in the first place, not Morrissey’s choice.
Williams added she also went to the doctor to get some blood work done for her thyroid condition.
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‘I needed a breath of fresh air. I needed to see the doctor, so that’s why I went to the hospital,’ Williams said.
She added, ‘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 has been making various press rounds of late, calling into The Breakfast Club and Good Day New York.
She also made headlines for a dinner date with her niece Alex Finnie.
‘It was great at first… They got me at the hospital, and then — with permission from the guardian, of course — 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 of the outing.
She was seen posing for paparazzi after the dinner, adding of the encounter, ‘We went to Tucci, great dinner! There were paparazzi, so we stopped. That’s what I do.’
She revealed that not only did she pᴀss her psych evaluation, but that it was her choice to get the evaluation in the first place, not Morrissey’s choice
‘I stopped, posed, and these two people that work here… they’re downstairs waiting for me. I’m not permitted to do anything, but stay on this floor, memory unit,’ she said.
An insider added of Williams’ appearance on The View, ‘She’s a longtime friend of the show and everyone is wishing the best for her’
‘I stopped, posed, and these two people that work here… they’re downstairs waiting for me. I’m not permitted to do anything, but stay on this floor, memory unit,’ she said.
She added that ‘memory unit’ is typically reserved for much older patients in their 80s or 90s, as she added, ‘I’m 60! Why am I here?’
The View’s Sunny Hostin – who Williams gave her media start to when she was younger – asked if she would return to broadcasting, though it seems unlikely under this guardianship.
An insider added of Williams’ appearance on The View, ‘She’s a longtime friend of the show and everyone is wishing the best for her.’
