Wendy Williams First Interview … She’s Being Held Captive!

Wendy Williams called into The Breakfast Club Thursday, Jan. 16, and was adamant that her mental condition had not deteriorated at all and said she felt trapped in the care facility where she’s been living: “I am not cognitively impaired, you know what I’m saying? But I feel like I’m in prison.”

A few minutes later, when host Charlamagne the God mentioned the reports that Williams was cognitively impaired and incapacitated, Williams fired back, “Do I seem that way, God dammit?” She added: “Who I naturally am, is who I naturally am, you know what I’m saying?”

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Williams has been under a court-ordered guardianship since 2022. In February of that year, it was announced that Williams would be unable to return to her long-running talk show amid reports of her deteriorating health (The Wendy Williams Show officially ended a few months later). In September, she checked into a “wellness facility” with the aim of making a “major comeback.” But nothing ever materialized, and in early 2024, Williams’ care team revealed the dementia and aphasia diagnosis.

That news came right before the premiere of the two-part Lifetime documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams? which explored the past few years of Williams’ life, leading up to the start of her guardianship. Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, eventually sued Lifetime and the makers of the documentary, claiming the series was made “without a valid contract” and that Williams was “highly vulnerable and clearly incapable of consenting to being filmed, much less humiliated and exploited.”

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