Wendy Williams responded tellingly to questions about her latest court hearing Monday, amid her guardianship battle.

The 60-year-old presenter has been waging a public war against the guardianship, which she claims is so restrictive she feels ‘like I am in prison.’

In a dramatic new development last Wednesday, Coterie – the center where she lives – filed a report with the NYPD claiming that Williams’ niece Alex Finnie evaded staff by taking the TV star out of the building to eat out at an Italian restaurant.

‘Clearly, they are lying to me when they say I can go out and do what I want to do,’ Williams defiantly told an interviewer during the excursion.

This Monday, Williams attended a hearing in connection to her guardianship, then stepped out that night to dine at the luxurious Pendry H๏τel with Finnie.

When she emerged onto the sidewalk, Williams was asked about the court date but replied with silence, in footage obtained by DailyMail.com. 

Wendy Williams was spotted using a mobility scooter in New York on Monday, hours after a court hearing amid her guardianship battle

Williams, who suffers from both Graves’ disease and lymphedema, used a mobility scooter Monday as she has on other recent occasions. 

Her decision to keep mum about her hearing comes after it was claimed the judge handling her case has become exasperated with Williams’ propensity to discuss the guardianship issue with the media, via TMZ.

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Judge Lisa Sokoloff allegedly sent an email to Williams’ lawyer saying: ‘I have always contended that [Williams] will be given the independence she can handle. I question how well she has handled the independence she has been given.’

In another email to Williams’ counsel, the judge is said to have written: ‘Tell your client that if she wants a jury she should refrain from trying to poison the jury pool.’

Last Wednesday, when Coterie called the police on Williams’ dinner outing with her niece Alex Finnie last Wednesday, Finnie and Williams seized on the incident as an example of how excessively confining the guardianship had allegedly become.

In an interview she gave alongside her aunt that evening, Alex said: ‘I’m wondering how exactly that correlates with the statements that the guardian [Sabrina Morrissey] has made [Wednesday] that Wendy is able to come and go as she pleases and that there are no family visits that are blocked.’

Wendy has repeatedly claimed she can only leave the fifth floor memory unit with permission aka an attendant unlocking the elevator, which is reportedly what happened Wednesday night.

Morrissey, 60, an elder law attorney, was originally appointed by a Manhattan judge in 2022 after Williams’ ex-manager Bernie Young reportedly raised concerns that she was of ‘unsound mind,’ which also led to Wells Fargo freezing her bank accounts.

This Monday, Williams attended a hearing in connection to her guardianship, then stepped out that night to dine at the luxurious Pendry H๏τel with her niece Alex Finnie

When she emerged onto the sidewalk, Williams was asked about the court date but responded with silence, in footage obtained by DailyMail.com

That same judge declared the former talk show host legally incapacitated last August – a year after she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, but she sounded a lot like her old self in recent interviews as well as the Tubi documentary Saving Wendy.

‘She is in great shape mentally and physically,’ Wendy’s younger brother Tommy Williams told Us Weekly on Wednesday. ‘Let her out.’

The Paradise Boat Tours staffer was relieved after Williams went to Lenox Hill Hospital on Monday to have an independent psychiatrist conduct a cognitive test on her, which she pᴀssed with ‘flying colors.’

‘Now she has some direction and understanding of her functional abilities and cognizant abilities,’ Tommy said.

‘It’s a win for Wendy, a big one. And she did it herself. It also shows she is fluid with her thoughts and actions.’

Williams added: ‘It’s a wait and see. We want to root Wendy on. We watch and listen and cheer her on. And we are praying.’

The New Jersey native and her caregiver – Connect Care Advisory Group founder Ginalia Monterrosa – are scheduled to speak with the ladies of ABC’s The View via phone call this Friday.

The 60-year-old elder law attorney was originally appointed by a Manhattan judge in 2022 after Williams’ ex-manager Bernie Young reportedly raised concerns that she was of ‘unsound mind,’ which also led to Wells Fargo freezing her bank accounts 

The former talk show host’s younger brother Tommy Williams (R, posted December 20) told Us Weekly on Wednesday: ‘She is in great shape mentally and physically. Let her out’

The Paradise Boat Tours staffer was relieved after Wendy went to Lenox Hill Hospital on Monday (pictured) to have an independent psychiatrist conduct a cognitive test on her, which she pᴀssed with ‘flying colors’ 

Tommy said: ‘Now she has some direction and understanding of her functional abilities and cognizant abilities. It’s a win for Wendy, a big one. And she did it herself. It also shows she is fluid with her thoughts and actions’ (pictured in 2022)

Williams and her caregiver – Connect Care Advisory Group founder Ginalia Monterrosa – are scheduled to speak with the ladies of ABC’s The View via phone call this Friday

‘She is letting the public know it is unfair, it is unjust. She doesn’t need to be in a guardianship. She is not incapacitated. She will continue to voice her opinion,’ Monterrosa told Us.

‘We’d love for her to be in an unrestrictive environment — even at another facility — where she has freedom to come in and out, see her friends, people can call her, she can have an iPad, she can use a two-way phone — not just [a] one way [phone].

‘[She has] the freedom to go to the store and supermarket, to go to the gym, to have a life and the things we take for granted.’