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Wendy Williams called in to “The Breakfast Club” Thursday morning in a plea for freedom.
The 60-year-old and her niece Alex Finnie told listeners that she is “trapped” in a facility in New York with elderly patients without access to her phone or laptop while under a guardianship.
Williams called her current situation “emotional abuse” in the bombshell interview.
The former talk show host compared the New York facility she is in to a “prison.” Lifetime She called the experience “emotional abuse.” thewendyexperiencepodcast/Instagram“I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison,” she said. “I am definitely isolated. To talk to these people who live here, that is not my cup of tea.
“I keep the door closed,” the former “Wendy Williams Show” host continued of her day-to-day activities. “I watch TV. I listen to the radio. I watch the window. I sit here, and my life goes by.”
Williams claimed her cats have been taken and are “gone” despite her “wanting them with” her.
“I am not cognitively impaired,” Williams insisted. Lifetime The Daytime Emmy nominee opened up about feeling “isolated.” WireImageWant more celebrity and pop culture news?
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The former shock jock shared her hopes to celebrate her dad’s 94th birthday in Miami next month — and to ultimately live there with her family.
She ended the interview with her infamous catchphrase, “How you doin’?”
Host Charlamagne Tha God urged his listeners to spread the word on social media, calling the Q&A the “fuse to light” and “explode” the situation.
Talking to the elderly patients at her facility is not Williams’ “cup of tea.” thwwendyexperience/Instagram She spends her day watching TV, listening to the radio and looking out the window with her “door closed.” Getty Images for SpotifyWilliams’ rep has yet to respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The Daytime Emmy nominee has been out of the spotlight for years, last hosting her Fox talk show in 2021 before it wrapped the following year without her.
Williams, who has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, according to her team, was placed under court-ordered guardianship in 2022.
Her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, called Williams “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated” as recently as October 2024.
“I sit here, and my life goes by,” Williams said. thewendyexperiencepodcast/Instagram She has been under court-ordered guardianship since 2022. LifetimeWilliams made a rare public appearance last month to attend her son Kevin Hunter Jr.’s graduation in Florida.
She was later caught on camera getting into a heated confrontation with her caretakers while leaving a celebratory dinner for the 24-year-old.
Hunter Jr. subsequently wrote via Instagram in December 2024 that his mom is “sober” and wants to “come home” since “isolation is killing her faster than anything else.”
