Former TV star Wendy Williams, who was diagnosed with dementia and stays at a New York assisted living facility, was taken away by an ambulance Monday after the cops were called following Williams’ plea for help from the window of her room. According to reports, she tossed a handwritten note out of the window begging for help. “Help! Wendy!” the note said. After the police arrived, Williams walked to the ambulance on her own as a handful of police escorted her out of her room.
Wendy Williams has been fighting her court-ordered guardianship and is under a conservatory similar to the one Britney Spears lived under. “I am not allowed to go out. I can call you, but you can’t call me,” she said during a recent interview with TMZ.
“This system has failed from top to bottom regarding this guardianship and everybody involved with that. The system failed. I want my freedom back.”
Williams says she had a falling out with her son, who allegedly exploited her for financial gain.
“My son, he overstepped his boundaries in terms of me. He overstepped his boundaries and he was inappropriately using my money without telling me crap about it.”
What happened to Wendy Williams?
The Wendy Williams Show first premiers in 2008 and it ran until 2022 when the show was canceled owing to Williams’ physical and mental health struggles. In an interview last month, Wendy Williams said she lives on a floor that is called the “memory unit” as the people who live there don’t remember anything. She, however, said she does not have dementia.
Earlier this year, Williams fitted her court-appointed attorney and said she regained the capacity to function on her own without her legal guardian Sabrina Morrissey. In November, Sabrina claimed in the court that Williams was permanently incapacitated by the early onset of dementia.
