As with most stories regarding celebrityconservatorships,Wendy Williamss is long, complex, and often quite dark.
March 10, 2025:Williams drops a note out of the window of her fifth-floor room reading Help!
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For the second time she denies that she has dementia.
Uh, how dare you?
Thats what Ive been accused of, believe it or not.
Look, I dont belong here at all.
I am not cognitively impaired, she says,perThe New York Times.
But I feel like I am in prison.
Williams also criticizes the New Yorkbased care facility where she has been living.
Look, I have breakfast, lunch, and dinner right here on the bed, she says.
Williamss niece, Alex Finnie, also phones into the show to request better treatment for her aunt.
Lifetime says it received consent, input, and cooperation from Williams.
This docuseries feels invasive at best and predatory at worst, wrote Aramide Tinubu forVariety.
The former talk show hosts team confirmed the news with a press release.
August 2022:The Hollywood Reporterpublishesa bombshell account of the last days ofThe Wendy Williams Show.
May 2022:Williams is placed under a financial guardianship,perThe Hollywood Reporter.
October 18, 2021:The 13th season ofThe Wendy Williams Showpremieres without Williams present.
I see my brothers and sisters caught up in their addiction and looking for help, she said.
They dont know Im Wendy.
They dont care Im Wendy.
Theres no autographs, theres no nothing.
2018:Williams takes her first extended hiatus fromThe Wendy Williams Showfor a period of three weeks.
At the time,Williams explained that her absence was due to Graves disease.
We take care of everybody but ourselves and its really unfortunate, she toldGood Morning America.
Im not doing that anymore.
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