OY! More drama for Wendy Williams

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Wendy Williams was taken away from her New York assisted living facility by ambulance Monday after cops were called in for a wellness check when the ex-talk show queen tossed a handwritten note out the window begging for help.

“Help! Wendy!!” the note said.

The call came in at about 11:15 a.m. soon after the 60-year-old — who has been diagnosed with dementia — tossed the note from the window of her fifth-story room. 

Soon after, Williams silently walked out of the facility — escorted by a handful of cops — and was helped into the waiting ambulance. 

Williams planned to make an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Friday — her first daytime appearance since taking a leave of absence from her “The Wendy Williams Show” four years ago.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the appearance was going to be filmed in person or just over the phone.

Williams, who has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia, has been embroiled in a high-profile battle to end the guardianship she’s been under since 2022.

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Wendy Williams says she passed her competency tests with "flying colors."

One day after being rushed to a New York hospital, the former daytime television host spoke with Rosanna Scotto on a live segment of "Good Day New York" on Tuesday to discuss the outcome of her competency tests.

Williams said she is currently in the hospital and passed her tests with "flying colors."

"Everybody knows factually that Wendy is not incapacitated," Ginalisa Monterrosa, a caretaker for Williams, told Scotto.

During an appearance on "The Breakfast Club" that same morning, Williams further explained why she pleaded to go to a medical facility and get evaluated by an independent doctor.

"The police showed up. I'm exhausted. I wanted to go to the hospital to talk to the doctor," Williams, who has been under a court-appointed guardianship since May 2022, told the hosts.

Monterroso said that they have been laser-focused on trying to get "some kind of motion" into the TV personality's guardianship case.

"We were pretty stuck at one point waiting for the lawyers to break through and get some type of trial," Monterroso said while on "The Breakfast Club." "I did two things. I wrote a letter to the Adult Protective Services and explained to them Wendy's situation. She was isolated and needed an investigation."

"Yesterday morning, during our morning calls, I told Wendy, 'We will be calling the police and telling them that you're isolated.' I pleaded with the police as if Wendy was my child. ‘Please you need to get her off this floor. She is confined.’"

Williams said during her chat with law enforcement, she told them "I am not incapacitated as I've been accused [of]."

"This floor that I live on is the memory unit," Williams explained. "The people who live there don't remember anything, unlike me. Why am I here? What is going on? It's a cry for help."

When officers visited Williams at the current facility she is residing in, Monterrosa said the TV host began to feel "a little bit of anxiety."

Monterrosa explained that she advised Williams to ask police officers to take her to a hospital and ask for an independent doctor to conduct a medical evaluation. Monterrosa said the facility was giving them a "hard time," but they were eventually able to get Williams to a local hospital.

"When I got to the hospital, I got checked in," Williams said. "They checked me for the heart palpitations, they did all kinds of scans."

Moterrosa explained that both Williams' guardian and attorney were both present at the hospital, but shared a "difference in opinion" about how to proceed with the evaluations.

After the doctor cleared her evaluations through the hospital's legal department, Williams took two competency evaluations, said Monterrosa.

"She passed both tests," she said.

"On Monday, the NYPD responded to a welfare check at 505 West 35 Street," the New York Police Department said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.

"EMS responded and transported a 60-year-old female to an area hospital for evaluation."

According to the New York Post, Williams had thrown a handwritten note that read "Help! Wendy!!" out the window.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Williams and Monterrosa for further comment.

Earlier this year, Williams denied she was cognitively impaired and admitted during an interview with "The Breakfast Club" that her guardianship felt like a "prison."

"I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison," Williams said 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."

"Where I am… you have to get keys to unlock the door to press the elevator to go downstairs, first of all. Second of all, these people here, everybody here is like nursemaids, so to speak," she said. Williams admitted she isn't privy to what medication she's given. "Excuse me, doctor, can you tell me what this pill is for?"

In February 2024, Williams' team announced she had been diagnosed with both progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

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Wow! @samhexum got to bump the thread that he just posted! Usually he has to wait a bit. Poor Wendy. Sam will be bumping this thread for years to come.

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Wendy Williams was spotted leaving a New York City hotspot after she was hospitalized and subjected to a psychiatric evaluation.

The TV personality appeared in good spirits as she smiled wide for the outing at Max Tucci’s Tucci restaurant in NoHo on Wednesday night.

She kept it casual, wearing a green and orange bomber jacket, black top, tights under jean shorts and black fur boots.

 

“She had a super time, she kept writing in her journal, she looked great,” an insider told Page Six. “Tomorrow she is going on ‘The View.’ Guests inside the restaurant respected her. She was with her niece and a young man.”

Williams’ outing reportedly got her into trouble, as the assisted living home she lives in allegedly filed a police report after her niece Alex Finnie violated the law by taking her to eat, according to TMZ.

Per the outlet, Finnie was spending time with her famous aunt at the facility when she “evaded staff” by leaving for dinner with Williams.

After a psych evaluation, Williams, 60, was ruled to be “alert and oriented” and received a “10 out of 10” score on a “capacity test,” according to TMZ.

The outlet reported that the results would be used in the court case seeking to end the former talk show host’s guardianship, which she has been in since 2022.

Williams is also waiting to be retested for frontotemporal dementia after denying she suffered from the condition earlier this year. She was diagnosed with the disease in 2023.

Williams called in to “Good Day New York” on Tuesday and admitted her no. 1 priority was ending her guardianship.

The media personality — who declared she passed her psych test with “flying colors” — explained that she currently resides in the memory unit of the NYC assisted living facility, which is for people who “don’t remember anything.”

“In order to go to the gym, which is on the third floor, I have to be permitted,” she said. “In terms of how much it costs, it has to be approved by my guardian person. My money is, like, in the air.”

Williams, who previously referred to the facility as a “prison,” shared she looks forward to continuing to live in NYC and working after her guardianship ends.

Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, clapped back at claims that Williams was living in a “prison” via a statement from her lawyers sent to TMZ on Wednesday.

The attorney referred to the allegation as “untrue” and “inaccurate,” saying Williams can call and visit family when she wants.

Morrissey, however, is also reportedly being investigated by Adult Protective Services for elder abuse after allegedly sending the TV mogul to visit family in Florida without money in February, per the US Sun.

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[BuffaloKyle]

1 minute ago, samhexum said:

Williams’ outing reportedly got her into trouble, as the assisted living home she lives in allegedly filed a police report after her niece Alex Finnie violated the law by taking her to eat, according to TMZ.

Oy indeed! You would think NYC police would have better things to do.

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Phone interview on THE VIEW today.

She sounded good. Not perfect, but certainly not incompetent or mentally unaware.

 

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On 3/12/2025 at 9:51 PM, BuffaloKyle said:

Oy indeed! You would think NYC police would have better things to do.

The police would have better things to do than investigate what appeared to be a kidnapping ?

The healthcare facility is responsible for her and her well-being, period (same with other patients of that facility). She was an admitted patient of the facility, she was not discharged to her niece that day, and the facility took their responsibility seriously, as they would with any other patient. 

If anything happened to her during her 'time out' of the facility, they would legally be held accountable. Her niece was in violation of the law by removing her without the proper authorization / permission of the facility, putting the facility at risk (as well as the patient), so they rightfully involved the police. It's called kidnapping. Her legal guardian can sue the facility for allowing this kidnapping to happen, and not keeping WW safe and secure on their premises.

My dad was on a memory care unit of an ALF the last year of his life. I would be livid (as would be my sister) if we found out that a friend or relative removed him from the facility (no matter their intention)  without proper permission or authorization from the facility itself and our knowledge, and they had no idea of his whereabouts for those hours away from the property. Without a second thought, I'd take legal action against the facility for putting him at risk. 

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A new documentary is delving into Wendy Williams’ alcoholism.

An hour-long special, called TRAPPED: What Is Happening to Wendy Williams?, premiered on Monday, May 19, on the ID Channel, taking a deeper look into her life under a guardianship. The former talk show host, 60, currently resides in a secured floor of a New York City assisted living facility, but investigative journalist Diane Dimond claimed that wasn’t always the case.

“Wendy was on the third floor in this care unit, where she has access to the hallways, to the elevators,” Dimond alleged. “And on her birthday, she decided to get in the elevator and see where she could go. Well, it went all the way up to the rooftop bar, and it being her birthday, she ordered a drink, and then another one, and another. Who knows how many, but she will admit to you that she got drunk, she had a relapse.”

“Her treatment is to be sent to a much more restrictive ward,” she claimed. “And that was the fifth floor, the memory care unit, where she has a room with a bathroom and a television, and she is locked into that floor 24/7 unless the guardian gives her permission to go out once in a while.”

Representatives for Williams did not immediately return PEOPLE's request for comment.

Williams, who was placed in a guardianship in 2022 and diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) the following year, has addressed these claims before. During a March interview on The View, she admitted that she “celebrated” in July 2024 when she turned 60, but insisted that she is now sober.

"[My] relationship [with substances] is fine and is wonderful,” she said. “I've had my vices and I have to tell you something: I am easily going on with my life, alcohol-free."

Several doctors have weighed in on the possibility of Williams having alcohol-induced dementia, rather than FTD.

“Alcohol is one of the main causes of cognitive decline and dementia,” brain disorder specialist Daniel Amen said in TRAPPED. “In fact, I believe that alcoholic dementia is the second most common cause.”

Since Williams began speaking out about her conservatorship and health issues at the beginning of 2025, her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has requested that she receive “a new medical evaluation that will involve comprehensive neurological and psychological testing by a specialist in the field.”

“The issue of whether [Williams] has the capacity to assess what is in her own best interests deserves renewed careful consideration by qualified experts, and should not be left to careless speculation in tabloids, radio, or on the Internet,” the Feb. 5 filing stated.

Then, in March, Williams was taken to the hospital following a welfare check requested by her health care advocate, Ginalisa Monterroso. When the pair later called into Good Day New York, Williams announced that she "passed" the exams at the hospital "with flying colors.”

Morrissey, however, told PEOPLE that Williams never scheduled her new medical evaluation.

“Medical testing, including an MRI brain scan and neuropsychological assessment, had been scheduled for Ms. Williams,” Morrissey told PEOPLE. “The Court directed that the testing be completed in March. Ms. Williams has declined to participate in the testing to date and therefore, the testing was not completed.”

In response, Williams told PEOPLE that she was not aware of the guardian’s claim that she had opted out of recent testing.

“I don’t know anything about that,” she said with a laugh, adding: “Bulls---. I am open to what I am open to and I can’t talk about it right now.”

Trapped: What Is Happening to Wendy Williams? is available to stream on Max.