Wendy Williams has denied that she has dementia arsenic she revealed if she would ever enactment with the network Lifetime again aft an explosive lawsuit and conservatorship.
The 60-year-old erstwhile speech amusement big - whose conflict with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia was revealed in May 2023 - was the taxable of a troubling documentary from the web called Where Is Wendy Williams? airing past year.
The prima - who was seen drinking successful furniture and acting erratically successful the documentary - surprisingly revealed that she would enactment with the A&E subsidiary again contempt her conservators suing them past twelvemonth aft her documentary dropped.
Speaking connected The Breakfast Club podcast connected Wednesday - she besides branded claims she had dementia 'ridiculous' and besides revealed that she did not hold with the suit her impermanent guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, had filed against A&E successful November.
Wendy explained that she stands to triumph $20million successful the suit but she hated the four-part docuseries but that would not halt her from moving with the web again.
She said: 'I don't privation that benignant of money, you know, I've worked with Lifetime respective times. You cognize what I'm saying? Enough that I would emotion to bash thing with Lifetime again.
Wendy Williams she would enactment with the web Lifetime again aft an explosive lawsuit, conservatorship battle, and dementia combat successful a caller interrogation with The Breakfast Club
'They are bully radical to maine and I americium bully radical to them.'
Wendy besides deed backmost astatine her guardian's assertion she is 'permanently incapacitated' and said she was disgusted by the claim, adding: 'I don’t privation immoderate of their humor money.'
She said the full woody to bash the Where Is Wendy Williams? docuseries was made connected her behalf.
'I lone watched [the docuseries] erstwhile and I volition ne'er ticker again successful life' she said.
'It was disgusting and by the mode I watched it with my guardianship person. Yes, we watched that together. That was the archetypal clip this guardianship idiosyncratic was similar "oh my gosh" and she was penning worldly down. I was looking similar "Oh my god" bash you cognize what I'm saying? What happened with this?'
This comes weeks aft her household members spoke retired aft she claimed she had ne'er adjacent met her guardianship attorney.
The speech amusement host, who has been surviving nether a guardianship and was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia successful May 2023, precocious blasted lawyer Roberta Kaplan for saying she would necessitate attraction for the remainder of her beingness contempt allegedly having ne'er met her.
In an exclusive connection to DailyMail.com, Williams' household accidental they are looking for a caller lawyer to correspond her arsenic she battles to extremity her guardianship.
'The household of Wendy Williams wishes to code the existent circumstances surrounding her guardianship and her ongoing travel toward reclaiming her self-determination,' the connection begins. 'As we navigate this challenging time, we judge it is important to advocator for Wendy’s rights and autonomy.
Wendy explained that she stands to triumph $20million successful the suit but she hated the four-part docuseries - titled Where Is Wendy Williams? - but that would not halt her from moving with the web again. She said: 'I don't privation that benignant of money, you know, I've worked with Lifetime respective times. You cognize what I'm saying? Enough that I would emotion to bash thing with Lifetime again. 'They are bully radical to maine and I americium bully radical to them'
Wendy besides claimed that she does not person frontotemporal dementia arsenic it has been claimed and that she is not incapacitated
'We are reaching retired to esteemed Ben Crump Law Firm to measure the guardianship statement presently successful spot for Wendy successful New York City,' Williams' household members announced.
'Our superior extremity is to guarantee that Wendy’s champion interests are being served and that she has the accidental to regain power implicit her beingness and decisions.
'Wendy is an bonzer idiosyncratic who has inspired countless radical done her enactment and idiosyncratic journey,' they continued. 'It is our steadfast content that she deserves the accidental to unrecorded with dignity and marque her ain choices, escaped from undue influence.
'We are hoping that — done the ineligible strategy — we tin shed airy connected this concern and enactment toward a solution that honors Wendy’s dependable and wishes,' her household said. 'We inquire for privateness and knowing arsenic we navigate this analyzable process, and we convey Wendy’s fans and supporters for their unwavering emotion and encouragement during this clip to “#FREEWENDY.”
'Wendy has ever been a fighter, and we are committed to ensuring that she has the resources and practice she deserves. Together, we volition enactment diligently to assistance Wendy reclaim her self-determination,' the connection concluded.
In a caller chat with TMZ, Williams — whose household has started a GoFundMe to assistance escaped her from her guardianship — took peculiar umbrage with her guardianship lawyer Kaplan's caller claims that she has 'good days and atrocious days.'
Wendy claimed that the lawyer has nary concern commenting connected her intelligence authorities arsenic she has ne'er adjacent met the lawyer.
She told the publication: 'How would she cognize that? I’ve ne'er met Roberta Kaplan and I person ne'er talked with her. I’m isolated and locked distant successful a luxury prison. So overmuch for the Me Too movement.'
This comes weeks aft her household said successful an exclusive connection to DailyMail.com connected Saturday that they are looking for an lawyer to assistance her 'regain power implicit her beingness and decisions'
Meanwhile, TMZ Executive Producer Harvey Levin revealed connected the tract that helium had a 90-minute speech with Williams connected Friday and made the shocking assertion that she did not amusement a hint of disablement contempt her aphasia and frontotemporal dementia diagnoses.
The 74-year-old tv property said: 'I tin archer you that the Wendy Williams that I spoke to contiguous is the aforesaid Wendy Williams that I knew 10 years ago. There is nary difference.
'She was lucid, she was articulate, she was with it, and she was opinionated.'
He went connected to explicate that helium is not going to get into the specifics of their lengthy speech arsenic it was disconnected the grounds but she wanted him to springiness his idiosyncratic valuation of what helium heard.
Williams' household said she 'deserves the accidental to unrecorded with dignity and marque her ain choices, escaped from undue influence'; seen successful 2019 successful NYC
Wendy Williams has deed backmost astatine a guardianship attorney's claims and insisted that she had ne'er adjacent met the lawyer aft guardianship lawyer Roberta Kaplan's caller claims that she has 'good days and atrocious days'; Wendy is pictured June 2021 connected Late Night with Seth Meyers
This comes conscionable a time aft Kaplan defended the determination to person her successful a guardianship aft the erstwhile speech amusement big plead for her freedom.
After Williams called into The Breakfast Club vigor amusement and insisted she is not 'cognitively impaired,' her lawyer the guardianship lawyer stated otherwise, per TMZ.
She explained that Williams is dealing with frontal lobe dementia and emphasized that it is simply a neurological illness with nary cure.
Her lawyer — who said she is lone representing Williams successful her suit against A&E for producing the documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams? — besides explained that a authorities tribunal declared Williams is incapable to marque ineligible and fiscal decisions connected her own.
Her lawyer said she volition necessitate attraction for the remainder of her beingness owed to the degenerative quality of the disease.
Kaplan besides said that Williams has atrocious days and she besides has bully days erstwhile she has a batch of clarify, similar erstwhile she called into The Breakfast Club connected Thursday morning.
On the greeting vigor show, Williams told co-host Charlamagne tha God astir however she felt similar she was imprisoned owed to her arguable guardianship and said her beingness is 'f***ed up.'
She besides slammed her ineligible guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, during the telephone and claimed she has been isolated from her family.
Kaplan had defended the determination to person her successful a guardianship aft the erstwhile speech amusement big plead for her freedom; pictured December 2019 successful New York City
After Williams, 60, called into The Breakfast Club vigor amusement and insisted she is not 'cognitively impaired,' her lawyer Roberta Kaplan stated otherwise, per TMZ connected Thursday
Her lawyer — who said she is lone representing Williams successful her suit against A&E for producing the documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams? — explained that a authorities tribunal declared Williams is incapable to marque ineligible and fiscal decisions connected her own; pictured November 2019 successful Atherton, California
Williams' fans were outraged aft Wendy claimed Morrissey had taken her aged phone and replaced it with a caller 1 that tin lone marque calls, but not person them, making it intolerable for friends oregon household to telephone her directly.
Due to the guardianship tribunal order, Morrissey is prohibited from commenting connected the story.
Williams besides alleged that the accordant interactions she has anymore are erstwhile her 'nursemaids' springiness her her medication.
Previously, Williams' niece Alex besides claimed that she is not impaired and asked fans to assistance amplify the #FreeWendy movement.
During the show, the erstwhile daze jock sobbed arsenic she described her existent concern arsenic 'emotional abuse.'
'I americium not cognitively impaired, but I consciousness similar I americium successful prison,' she told the vigor amusement hosts. 'I americium decidedly isolated.'
She added: 'To speech to these radical who unrecorded here, that is not my cupful of tea. I support the doorway closed.'
Kaplan besides said that Williams has atrocious days and she besides has bully days erstwhile she has a batch of clarify, similar erstwhile she called into The Breakfast Club connected Thursday morning; pictured August 2018 successful Atlanta
On the greeting vigor show, Williams told co-host Charlamagne tha God astir however she felt similar she was imprisoned owed to her arguable guardianship and said her beingness is 'f***ed up.' She besides slammed her ineligible guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, during the telephone and claimed she has been isolated from her family; pictured successful 2018
During the show, the erstwhile daze jock sobbed arsenic she described her existent concern arsenic 'emotional abuse.' 'I americium not cognitively impaired, but I consciousness similar I americium successful prison,' she told the vigor amusement hosts. 'I americium decidedly isolated'; pictured October 2019 successful New York City
The tv property described the stark quality of her regular beingness aft being enactment nether the guardianship.
'I ticker TV. I perceive to the radio. I ticker the window. I beryllium here, and my beingness goes by.'
She said that she nary longer has the institution of her favored cats, claiming that they are 'gone' and had been taken distant adjacent though she 'wanted them with her.'
The TV prima revealed that she yet hopes to determination to Florida truthful she tin unrecorded determination with her family.
For present the prima is conscionable focused connected being capable to question retired to Miami adjacent period successful bid to observe her beloved dad's birthday.
In an Instagram station earlier the interrogation took place, Charlamagne penned a caption astir conservatorships and guardianships, which helium insisted are 'designed to sphere dignity' and 'not control.'
'Conservatorships and guardianships should beryllium to empower, support and enactment individuals — not to confine them successful invisible prisons,' the speech amusement big wrote.
'Tomorrow greeting connected @breakfastclubam #WendyWilliams volition punctual america that these systems indispensable beryllium transparent, compassionate, and designed to sphere dignity, not control. Let's discuss.'