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Former talk show host Wendy Williams, whose legal troubles and health battles were documented in a controversial TV documentary and is now confined to an assisted living facility, spoke out strongly reiterated her displeasure with her situation, saying on Charlamagne Tha God‘s Breakfast Club podcast today, insisting “the system is broken.”
“I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said. “I’m in this place with people who are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s. These people, there’s something wrong with these people here on this floor. I am clearly not.” Williams described herself as in her 60s and beautiful.
Listen to the podcast below.
“Listen,” Williams said, “this system is broken, this system that I am in. This system has falsified a lot. For the last three years, I have been caught up in the system.”
Williams was joined in the phone conversation with her niece Alex Finnie, who described Williams’ living condition as “what some people would call a luxury prison. It’s small, she has a bed, a chair, a TV, a bathroom, and she’s looking out one window at buildings across the street.”
Throughout the half-hour-plus interview, Williams insisted she is not impaired. “Do I seem that way, goddamnit? Who I naturally am is who I naturally am.”
Williams’ niece described her aunt’s reality “since 2023: She’s sitting in that room that she’s sitting in, she’s there every day, all hours of the day, every week, every month, she’s not getting proper sunlight. I went to New York in October to visit her. And the level of security and the level of questions that there were in terms of, ‘Who am I? Why am I here? What’s the purpose?’ I mean, it was absolutely just horrible.”
Both Williams and Finnie said that Williams is allowed to make phone calls but outsiders are not allowed to call in to her. “I can call you but you can’t call me,” Williams said. “I don’t even know what kind of phone I have. I can’t sit on the phone and look at things and scroll through things. I can’t do that. I do not have a laptop. I do not have an iPad.”
Williams has been in the undisclosed New York facility since April 2023 after being placed under the care of court-appointed caregiver Sabrina Morrissey, who claimed the former talk host was of unsound mind. Williams’ bank, Wells Fargo, petitioned to have Williams placed under temporary financial guardianship.
Williams and the guardianship situation were the subjects of the 2024 two-night Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? The doc-series chronicled Williams’ sometimes startling mental state. Morrissey attempted, unsuccessfully, to prevent Lifetime from airing the series.
Williams has been diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder Graves’ disease. “I’ve had two pills all of my life,” she said on today’s podcast. “There are seven pills, I have no idea what this pill is doing? I haven’t been to a pill person in a matter of a long time [to ask] ‘Excuse me doctor, can you tell me what this pill is for?'”
When she asked to go see her doctor for her thyroid, Williams — who has Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone — was allegedly told “the pill that you have for [your] thyroid is perfect.”
“I told you not to take them pills,” Charlamagne interjected.
At one point, Williams said, “This is my life, people. Tis my life. This is my goddamn life.”
Listen to the podcast below.
