Wendy Williams says 'I feel like I'm in prison' as she breaks silence on conservatorship

Talkshow big Wendy Williams said she 'feels similar she's successful prison' arsenic she slammed her guardianship - which she was been nether since 2022

Wendy Williams said she feels similar 'she's successful prison' arsenic she deed retired astatine her conservatorship - which she has been under since 2022.

In the past year, Wendy's family has shared their interest implicit their inability to interaction the speech amusement host. Her relatives claimed she was enactment nether guardianship without their cognition and were not considered to beryllium imaginable caregivers for the chat amusement star. New York lawyer, Sabrina Morrissey, presently acts arsenic her ineligible guardian.

It came arsenic her attraction squad said she was diagnosed with dementia and aphasia. There had been claims that the 60-year-old is "incapacitated", which her household refuted. Wendy precocious echoed her family's interest during an quality connected The Breakfast Club connected Thursday. She said: "Do I look that way, deity damn it?" astir her diagnoses.

She added: "I americium not cognitively impaired, you cognize what I’m saying? But I consciousness similar I’m successful prison." Wendy has been surviving astatine a New York attraction facility. "I’m successful this spot wherever the radical are successful their 90s and their 80s and their 70s … There’s thing incorrect with these radical present connected this floor," Wendy added.

Her niece, Alex, besides appeared connected the programme and said the installation was making it hard to interaction Wendy. Alex explained: "They won't let you to permission oregon person visitors. So you can't adjacent permission and instrumentality a locomotion if you wanted to, oregon instrumentality a travel oregon sojourn household members."

Wendy went connected to telephone the strategy "broken" arsenic she claimed to acquisition "emotional abuse" from the guardianship. Alex added: "That's been the world since 2023. She's sitting successful that country that she's sitting in, she's determination each day, each hours of the day, each week, each month, she's not getting due sunlight. I went to New York successful October to sojourn her.

"And the level of information and the level of questions that determination were successful presumption of, 'Who americium I? Why americium I here? What's the purpose?' I mean, it was perfectly conscionable horrible." Wendy is said to person faced assorted wellness issues implicit the years. It includes her having announced backmost successful 2018 that she had been diagnosed with the autoimmune information Graves' illness and associated hyperthyroidism.

More recently, it was reported successful February past twelvemonth that she was diagnosed with superior progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Aphasia is said to notation to a idiosyncratic experiencing trouble with their connection oregon speech, typically arsenic a effect of harm to the near broadside of the brain. Whilst FTD is described arsenic a benignant of dementia that causes problems with behaviour and language.

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