Wendy Williams was unexpectedly hospitalized following a plea for help. Authorities conducted a welfare check at Williams’ assisted living facility on Monday, March 10, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed.
She was then escorted out of the building, and EMS transported her by ambulance to a local hospital for evaluation.
The 60-year-old former talk show host reportedly dropped a note out of her window earlier that morning, which allegedly read: “Help! Wendy!!”
Williams has been under legal guardianship overseeing her finances and health since May 2022. In recent months, she has been engaged in a legal battle to end her conservatorship with her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, who claims Williams is “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and legally incapacitated.”
In a January interview on The Breakfast Club, Williams refuted these claims, stating, “I am not cognitively impaired, but I feel like I am in prison. 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.”
Wendy Williams (Photo: Getty Images)
She also described the facility as a “prison,” alleging that the elevators are locked, visitors are restricted, and she is unable to leave as she pleases. Additionally, she claimed she is unaware of what medications the facility administers to her.
In the February TubiTV documentary TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams, Williams disclosed that she could not recall the last time she was seen by a medical professional following her 2023 dementia diagnosis.
“It has been a long while,” she said, adding that she “couldn’t” even estimate a timeframe.
“I was in Connecticut for a year and I didn’t go see anybody. I’ve been in here for six or seven months and I haven’t seen anybody,” she claimed.
That same month, Williams shared an update during an appearance on NewsNation’s Banfield.
“Well, I don’t have the freedom to do virtually anything,” she explained. “As far as where I am, I’m on the fifth floor. They call it ‘the memory unit,’ so it’s for people who don’t remember anything.”
She continued, “I’ve met the people who live here, and I’ve been here for almost a year now. This is very suffocating.”
