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Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Health
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Wendy Williams Removed from Assisted Living Facility by NYPD, Taken to Hospital in Ambulance
Wendy Williams was unexpectedly taken to the hospital amid her pleas for help. Authorities responded to Williams' assisted living facility for a welfare check on Monday, March 10, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE. She was then escorted out of the building, and EMS transported her in an ambulance to a local hospital 'for evaluation.' According to reporting from The New York Post, the 60-year-old former talk show host dropped a note out of her window earlier that morning. It allegedly read: 'Help! Wendy!!' Related: Wendy Williams Says She's 'Not Incapacitated' from Dementia as Her Guardian Requests a 'New Medical Evaluation': Docs Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Williams has been living under a legal guardianship that oversees both her finances and health since May 2022. In recent months, she has been in an ongoing legal battle to end her conservatorship with her court-appointed guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, who claims Williams is "cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.' "I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison," Williams said on The Breakfast Club in January. "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." She added that elevators in the facility — which she called a "prison" — are locked and visitors are restricted, and she is unable to come and go as she pleases. She also alleged that she is unaware of what medications the facility is administering to her. Hours after her appearance on the radio show, Morrissey requested a 'new medical evaluation," per a court filing obtained by PEOPLE. She also revealed in a TubiTV documentary called TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams, which was released in February, that she couldn't remember the last time she was seen by a medical professional after her 2023 dementia diagnosis. '[It has been] a long while,' Williams said, insisting that she 'couldn't' even estimate a general time frame. '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. Related: Wendy Williams Arrives in Miami for Dad's Birthday After Claiming She May Not Be Allowed to Visit in Emotional Interview That same month, Williams offered an update on her status during a segment on NewsNation's Banfield. 'Well, I don't have the freedom to do virtually anything," she said. "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." "I've met the people who live here and I've been here for almost a year now, and this is very suffocating," she continued. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
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Wendy Williams Claims She Hasn't Seen A Doctor In Almost 2 Years
Wendy Williams has made claims about the lack of medical care she has received under a conservatorship. In a newly released TubiTV documentary TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams, the coveted talk show host spoke candidly about not seeing a doctor in nearly two years. Speaking with TMZ's Harvey Levin, Williams reflected on her 2023 dementia diagnosis and said it's been a 'long while' since she had last been evaluated. 'I was in Connecticut for a year and I didn't go see anybody,' she claimed. 'I've been in here for six or seven months and I haven't seen anybody.' Her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has stated in court filings that Williams is 'cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.' Williams, however, insists she feels 'fantastic' and denies being incapacitated. Levin also spoke with Neurologist Leah Croll, who suggested that alcoholism can contribute to her diagnosis, as alcohol-induced brain damage can resemble frontotemporal dementia. When asked if sobriety could possibly cause a reverse diagnosis, Croll noted that abstaining from alcohol could warrant a reevaluation. Morrissey requested a 'new medical evaluation' on Feb. 5, after Williams denied her condition on The Breakfast Club, stating, 'I don't have frontotemporal dementia… it's disgusting.' She added, 'I'm not incapacitated. I am not a baby.' Morrissey also addressed Williams' remarks about a lawsuit against A&E, which she had filed over the Where Is Wendy Williams? docuseries. Williams' public statements suggested that she opposed the legal action, prompting Morrissey to seek an updated medical assessment to confirm her decision-making ability. 'The issue of whether Williams has the capacity to assess what is in her own best interests deserves renewed careful consideration by qualified experts,' the filing stated. More from Wendy Williams Believes Her Son Took Advantage Of Her Financially, Triggered Her Guardianship Wendy Williams Denies She's "Incapacitated," Calls A&E Lawsuit "Blood Money" Wendy Williams Fires Court-Appointed Lawyer While Fighting To End Guardianship
