Wendy Williams condemns guardianship during The View interview: “Get off my neck”

Williams claims she’s been isolated and that she does not have the memory problems that she is purported to have.

Wendy Williams condemns guardianship during The View interview: “Get off my neck”
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Wendy Williams called into The View this morning and offered an update on her controversial guardianship and the “incapacitation” she says she’s claimed to have. “I don’t have it,” she said at the top of the interview. “How dare they say I have incapacitation. I do not.” Panelist Joy Behar agreed that Williams sounded “all right,” and Williams went on to describe her conditions in the memory care unit that she’s been living in for the past year. She told the hosts that most of the other residents were considerably older than her with worse memory issues, and claimed that she had not been allowed to have friends visit her in the facility. 

Panelist Sonny Hostin then read a statement from Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey and asked Williams how she was coping without being able to perform her work as a broadcaster and host. Williams didn’t exactly answer the specific question, and instead used the moment to take aim at Morrissey and her lawyer. “These two people don’t look like me, they don’t dress like me, they don’t talk like me, they don’t act like me, and I venture to say they will never be me,” she said, leaving all five hosts apparently unsure how to respond. “I need them to… get off my neck! I can’t do it with these two people again. I’m speaking of the guardian and the judge. I need a new guardian, and then I’ll get out of guardian [sic].” 

Williams’ guardianship began in 2022, and was triggered by Wells Fargo after the bank noticed irregular activity on her account. “I didn’t mind it at that time at all, because it’s about my money and keeping my money safe,” Williams said today. “But at this point in my life, I want to terminate this guardianship and move on with my life, if that’s possible at all.” Williams’ advocate Ginalisa Monterroso also spoke on the former talk show host’s behalf, saying that what initially was a voluntary guardianship turned into “this person is going to take her whole entire life.” Williams added, “Everybody played really nice to me, and I was like, okay, no problem.” However, she said she was then brought to a memory care unit in Connecticut, which she describes as worse than the one she’s in now in New York. “It was horrible,” she said. “Nothing but grass and trees and memory units.” She claims that the guardian kept her phone from her so she couldn’t contact her friends. 

Williams has spoken out about the guardianship previously, comparing the experience to “prison” during an appearance on The Breakfast Club earlier this year. Now, she is being explicit about what she wants to be changed. “I don’t want Sabrina, period. But also I don’t want guardian,” she said. “It’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo.” You can check out the whole two-segment interview below. 

 
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