Wendy Williams just broke her silence on the conservatorship she’s been placed on.
The former talk show host and her niece, Alex, called into Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, hosted by DJ Envy, Charlamagne that God and Jess Hilarious, on Thursday, Jan. 16.
During the interview, she spoke about her court-mandated guardianship, comparing her life to a “prison” these days.
Williams was first placed under financial guardianship in 2022 when her financial advisor claimed she wasn’t of “sound mind.” Her bank froze her accounts out of fear that her reported cognitive issues would leave her susceptible to exploitation.
She was later diagnosed with dementia and aphasia, the latter of which affects a person’s ability to communicate.
In November 2024, her guardian’s attorney filed documents in court claiming Williams was “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and incapacitated.”
“Do I seem that way, God damn it?” Wendy Williams countered while calling into the radio show, declaring, “I am not cognitively impaired.”
“But I feel like I’m in prison,” she said, referencing the New York City care facility she’s reportedly been living in since 2023. “I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s…There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor,” she said to emphasize that the people she’s been placed with require medical attention which she feels she does not.
Her niece, Alex compared the facility to a “luxury prison,” describing the small “apartment” with a singular window in which Williams lives.
While Williams can reportedly call her family, they cannot contact her directly, and the media personality claimed she is denied internet access. There is also a high-level security presence that makes it difficult for family members to visit and impossible for Williams to go anywhere.
Williams also countered claims in a lawsuit filed by her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, in an attempt to put a stop to A&E and Lifetime’s docuseries about her. While Morrissey claimed the project was exploitative, Williams says it was her idea in the first place.
“Look, this system is broken, this system that I’m in. This system has falsified a lot,” she emphasized. “Who I naturally am is who I naturally am.”