The former ‘Wendy Williams Show’ host has been under guardianship since 2022 and was diagnosed with dementia last year. Wendy Williams called into The Breakfast Club radio show on Thursday morning to speak out against her guardianship, saying “I feel like I’m in prison.”.
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The former daytime TV host, 60, has been under guardianship since 2022. Last year, her care team announced she had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. “Do I seem that way, god damn it?” she asked hosts DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Jess Hilarious on Thursday.
“I am not cognitively impaired, you know what I’m saying? But I feel like I’m in prison,” she said of the care facility where she has been living. “I am definitely isolated. To talk to these people who live here, that is not my cup of tea... I’m in this place where the people are in their Nineties and their Eighties and their Seventies… There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor.”.
“I keep the door closed,” Williams added of her daily life at the facility. “I watch TV. I listen to the radio. I watch the window. I sit here, and my life goes by.”. Williams was the subject of a Lifetime docuseries that aired last year, which featured numerous scenes of the ex-host unsteady, belligerent, confused, and also drunk.
“She was the one who wanted to do that, you understand what I’m saying?” Williams said of her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, adding: “What do I think about being abused? Look, this system is broken, this system that I’m in. This system has falsified a lot.”.
