Wendy Williams is getting a new legal team to take on her guardian in an effort to secure her freedom from her conservatorship.

Sabrina Morrissey was ᴀssigned to Wendy when Wells Fargo suggested a guardian be put in place after the bank noticed some suspicious charges on her accounts.

The bank froze her accounts and sent a letter to the courts suggesting she be put in a conservatorship to protect her from ‘undue influence and financial exploitation.’ Morrissey was then appointed by the court, Page Six reported.

Wendy, 60, has been in guardianship that she says she does not need for three years and isn’t happy that Morrissey has considerable power with judges and conservatorships in New York City. 

Willams currently lives on lockdown at The Coterie ᴀssisted living facility at Hudson Yards. 

Sources close to Williams she is not allowed to have any electronics, so she cannot call anyone, get emails or do anything to get in touch with someone on the outside. 

Wendy Williams is getting a new legal team to take on her guardian in an effort to secure her freedom from her conservatorship. Seen March 15, 2025

‘They say she’s incapacitated. That usually means someone who is a vegetable or unaware of their surroundings and unable to communicate,’ said Ginalisa Monterroso, the CEO and founder of Connect Care Advisory Group. 

Monterroso began working with Williams in December with the encouragement of their mutual friend, Charlamagne Tha God.

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‘That’s not Wendy. Even just look at her operate her scooter. Can an incapacitated person do that?

‘I would not be advocating publicly on behalf of Wendy if I felt she had any cognitive issues or that she belonged in a memory unit,’ Monterroso said.

She also shared the grim reality that if Wendy doesn’t get a new legal term, she will spend the rest of her life sitting in her room alone all day with nothing to do. 

‘She’s just stuck in what she calls a luxury prison … There’s been no plan put in place for her, no paperwork, no hearings. There was no strategy or help lined up for her at all,’ Monterroso added.

Monterroso has spent 25 years in the elder care field and speaks to Williams nearly every day.

She also sent a letter on Wendy’s behalf to Adult Protective Services in New York. 

Sabrina Morrissey was ᴀssigned to Wendy when Wells Fargo suggested a guardian be put in place after the bank noticed some suspicious charges on her accounts. Seen in 2020

The bank froze her accounts and sent a letter to the courts suggesting she be put in a conservatorship to protect her from ‘undue influence and financial exploitation.’ Seen in 2018

Wendy, 60, has been locked into guardianship that she says she does not need for three years and isn’t happy that Morrissey has considerable power with judges and conservatorships in New York City

Willams currently lives on lockdown at The Coterie ᴀssisted living facility at Hudson Yards. Seen here on March 15, 2025

In order to move forward with Wendy’s case, she will have to get a neurological exam. 

Monterroso believes that Wendy’s cognitive issues came from alcohol, which can be reversable, at least in part.

‘A doctor in Florida first examined her in 2019 and his diagnosis was alcohol-related dementia,” Monterroso told the outlet noting that there may be other issues. 

‘She’s also had serious thyroid issues since her 30s and there’s such a thing as thyroid-related dementia. She also has Graves disease which is why her eyes sometimes bulge,’ Monterroso explained.

‘Whatever it is, a guardianship is supposed to be for someone who doesn’t know to put on a coat in winter or doesn’t remember to pay bills or wanders out and doesn’t know where they are,’ she continued.

‘That’s not Wendy. So then why put an alcoholic in a memory care unit and throw away the key?”

Monterroso said Williams does not want to drink again and intends to fight for her sobriety if she is able to get out of her guardianship.

Diane Dimond, author of We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong, told The Post that she feels Wendy has a good chance of winning her case if she gets the right legal team in place. 

Sources close to Williams she is not allowed to have any electronics, so she cannot call anyone, get emails or do anything to get in touch with someone on the outside. Seen here in 2019

‘Wendy Williams clearly doesn’t have aphasia,’ Dimond told the outlet. ‘If she gets a good litigation team in place she stands a very good chance of following in Britney Spears’ footsteps and getting out from under this guardianship.

‘You want litigators, not elder care lawyers. That’s what I tell everyone. You go in on a civil rights issue. There’s a growing problem of people winding up in these situations but thankfully there’s sometimes a way out.’

Last week, Williams, while dining out with friends for lunch, told Page Six: ‘I am fabulous. I’m better than good, but have been accused of being otherwise.’ 

‘I am very much alive. I deserve freedom, darling.’

When the reporter commented on her fit form, Williams responded, ‘I got the liposuction and breast implants when I was 31. I’m 60 now and my body’s holding up well!’

However, she was a bit shy about answering more questions about her plans to regain control of her life, referring them to her advocate Ginalisa Monterroso, who told the outlet, ‘Don’t believe everything you read.’ 

The Wendy Williams Show star won a big court battle last week, convincing the judge overseeing her guardianship to allow her to leave the memory-care floor of the ᴀssisted living facility where she has been living in the Big Apple, for another area of the facility.

‘She will be in like a private condo now. She will have much more freedom to come and go as she pleases, she’ll be able to have visitors, and she’ll be free to leave when she wants,’ an insider told The Sun.

‘Her team will also begin settlement talks for the guardianship,’ the source alleged.