Guardianship Judge to Wendy Williams on Career: "It's Done"

by Jillian Bowe

Lord in the morning! The judge in Wendy Williams' conservatorship wants all the smoke with her and she gave it to her in court. On Thursday, Williams was in court for a hearing and Judge Lisa Sokoloff ripped into the former talk show host and her family TMZ is reporting. The site claims Sokoloff lit into Williams' niece WPLG Local 10 Miami news anchor Alex Finnie and accused her of leaking info about Williams and the case to the media and threatened to impose sanction on her in the future.

Sokoloff then ripped into Williams' family and said they were no good. Girl what? Sokoloff went on to discuss Williams' career and said, while she had a great one, she won't have it again and told her that her career was over and said:

It's done.

Sokoloff who has no experience in the entertainment industry, left many, including Williams baffled by her comments and hurt by what she said.

Last month, Sokoloff sent out an email to Williams' attorney chastising her for speaking to the press. She threatened to put more restrictions on her including moving Williams to another facility with more limitations than the one in which she currently resides.

The site claims Williams' personal attorney Joe Tacopina, will take on the guardianship case if it heads to a jury trial. Tacopina is the lawyer who helped rapper A.$.A.P. Rocky, Rihanna's boyfriend and the father of her children, beat his attempted murder charges

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A health care advocate tells PEOPLE that Williams wanted the court to protect her financially. Now she's protesting her guardianship with #FreeWendy movement

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Wendy Williams speaks onstage during her celebration of 10 years of 'The Wendy Williams Show'. Photo:

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•  Wendy Williams’ health care advocate Ginalisa Monterroso tells PEOPLE that the former talk show originally wanted to be in a guardianship despite her desire to end it now

• Monterroso claims Williams “passed” the mental capacity exams during her hospital visit on March 10, adding, “She was alert and oriented, and we were satisfied with that”
• Williams will hold a protest against her guardianship in New York and Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 1

Wendy Williams recently amped up her demands to be free of a restrictive guardianship that she alleges controls every aspect of her life. But her desire to end it wasn't always this way. Three years ago, Williams allegedly agreed with the courts to be overseen by her court-appointed legal guardian Sabrina Morrissey.

Since May 2022, the former TV host, 60, has been living under a legal guardianship that oversees both her finances and health. Williams is currently living in a luxury high-rise assisted-living facility in New York to address her cognitive issues and dementia diagnosis in 2023. Morrissey is the only person who currently has unfettered access to her. Williams' family told PEOPLE last year that she can call them, but they cannot call her themselves.

However, Williams’ health care advocate, Ginalisa Monterroso, exclusively tells PEOPLE that Williams initially wanted to be placed in a guardianship with the courts. She claims her client didn't know all her rights would be taken away — including having no access to the Internet or a cell phone.

In early 2022, Williams' 24-year-old son Kevin Hunter Jr. and her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, were the subjects of public scrutiny when court filings showed that Wells Fargo froze her accounts after her financial adviser at the time, Lori Schiller, alleged that she was of “unsound mind." In a letter to the court on Feb. 4, 2022 — and obtained by PEOPLE — Williams claimed Wells Fargo had "denied [her] any access, whether online or otherwise, to her financial accounts, assets, and statements" for more than two weeks. 

Hunter Jr. was Williams' power of attorney and reportedly took a large sum of money from her account, ultimately raising flags at the bank. The bank successfully petitioned a New York court to have Williams first placed under temporary financial guardianship that turned into a full guardianship under the state laws of New York.

The court documents stated at the time that Wells Fargo had "several million dollars" of Williams' funds in its possession. The bank, in its filings to the court, said it froze the funds because "Wells Fargo has strong reason to believe that [Williams] is the victim of undue influence and financial exploitation." It did not specify who or what is exploiting or unduly influencing Williams.

Monterroso now claims that Williams thought that because Wells Fargo flagged the account — and that it went through the courts — they would protect her financially. "She wanted to make sure nobody's in her money and she would be fine," adds Monterroso. "She kind of felt like, 'Hey, I have the court. They're going to sign me a money person. I'm going to be good.' In no way did she think that our whole life was going to be taken away from her."

A month after the guardian was appointed, Williams was caught on camera passed out at a Louis Vuitton store, drunk. She entered a wellness facility starting in September 2022 and has been living at another facility in New York for the past few years.

"A lot of people would be like, 'Well, I would question [the guardianship] more. But when everything is happening so quickly and the bank is saying, 'Somebody's trying to take your money and there's something going on, you're just trying to kind of save yourself," says Monterroso. "Why would you not trust the courts, right? Why would the courts become your enemy?"

But under Williams' guardianship, she can no longer decide where to live, how to spend her money or have a bank account. She can't vote, marry or decide the doctors she'd like to use or what friends can visit her at the facility. She has to get special permission from Morrissey and sometimes even Judge Lisa A. Sokoloff, who is overseeing her affairs, to travel out of state. "You have no rights," says Monterroso. "Somebody in prison has more rights than a person put under a guardianship."

As far as Williams' family petitioning to be her guardian in the interim, Monterosso says that her client "really didn't want her family to be involved. She didn't want to kind of burden them with anything," she adds.

"How did she go from this aunt or sister that we love and is healthy one minute to this person who’s in and out of the hospital?” Williams' sister Wanda Finnie asked in PEOPLE's February 2024 cover story. “How is that system better than the system the family could put in place? I don't know. I do know that this system is broken. I hope that at some point, Wendy becomes strong enough where she can speak on her own behalf."

But now Williams has a voice. "Wendy feels as if she has a voice and change to get out, so she doesn't have to try to get an alternate plan," Monterosso continues. "She's able to get counsel, everybody's looking at the case — and there's movement. People are listening to her now, so she's confident that she's going to continue to fight."

On Thursday, Jan. 16, Williams was in tears as she begged to get her out of her guardianship and return to life outside the walls of the wellness facility in New York City in which she's been ordered to live. Appearing on The Breakfast Club for a rare interview, she spoke out about her situation to host Charlamagne Tha God.

"I am not cognitively impaired but I feel like I am in prison," Williams said. "I’m in this place with people who are in their nineties and their eighties and their seventies... These people, there's something wrong with these people here on this floor. I am clearly not."

Two months later, Williams pressed a handwritten note to the window of her luxury high-rise assisted-living facility that read “Help! Wendy!” This resulted in police and medical personnel intervening and sending her in an ambulance for evaluation on March 10. She was then escorted out of the building, and EMS transported her in an ambulance to a local hospital “for evaluation,” a spokesperson for the New York Police Department told PEOPLE at the time.

Monterroso claims that the note was "more of a joke" but that she and Williams planned the call with 9-1-1 the day before to attract media attention and get another evaluation for her client. After filing a complaint with Adult Protective Services earlier this month, Monterroso says Williams is "excited" for a jury to determine if her guardianship should be terminated following additional mental competency testing.

"I wanted to make awareness to the public that this is very serious and it is a crime to keep somebody isolated," Monterroso continues. "And so I just said [to Wendy] 'We're going to call the police. “It was just more of a strategic move to just kind of get more evidence because this case has been stuck,” she explains. 

She adds the decision to transport via ambulance was made because they could “at least do a short mini-assessment” at the hospital and “have some documentation from somebody else outside of this guardianship that can attest” to Williams not being incapacitated. Monterroso further claims Williams “passed” the mental capacity exams at the hospital, adding, “She was alert and oriented, and we were satisfied with that.”

After the brief hospitalization, Williams went out to dinner with her niece Alex Finnie and headed back to her unit wearing a pink fuzzy Versace robe and waving to onlookers. Although Williams has in no way given up her fight for more freedom, the police were called after she was reported missing at her facility. (A police report was filed but Monterroso claims it was a "misunderstanding").

Investigative journalist Diane Dimond — who released a book about the guardianship system, We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong, in September 2024 — told PEOPLE last year an estimated 2 million people are presently living under the court's control.

"A guardian can be a family member, it could be your best friend, it could be a perfectly trustworthy commoner, so to speak," Dimond said. "After investigating this for eight or nine years now, judges are overlooking family members, they're overlooking friends and they're going immediately to these professional, for-profit appointees, and they're complete strangers to these wards of the court. So within that, the ward of the court loses all their civil rights. They have no more rights to decide anything about their personal life or their financial life."

Recently, Williams called into The View, saying she wanted Morrissey to “get off my neck."

"Wendy has expressed her frustration and desire for freedom on multiple occasions, stating publicly: 'I feel like I’m in prison,' " a source close to Wendy tells PEOPLE. "No one should feel imprisoned in their own life — especially not someone who has proven time and again that she is capable, intelligent, and deserving of dignity. This movement is about dignity. It’s about voice. And it’s about justice."

Bicoastal rallies for Williams will be held at Coterie Hudson Yards in New York and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles at Williams' star on Tuesday, April 1 beginning at 10:00 a.m. local. A GoFundMe has also been launched to raise $50,000 to support Williams' legal fight.

The same source says Williams will be cheering supporters from inside the window of her New York facility until 2 p.m. ET.

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By Alexandra Del Rosario

How’s Wendy Williams doing? Not as bad as her guardian alleges, or at least that’s what she asserted as she called in to “The View” last week.

The boisterous former talk show and radio host returned to the daytime space Friday in a different capacity. Williams, who made a living by dishing on the latest celebrity gossip, was on the other side this time. She called in to “The View” to dismiss narratives about her mental condition and shed more light on the guardianship that allegedly landed her in the memory unit of a New York care facility and away from public view.

“I’ve been doing important things all of my life, and 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,” Williams said of her guardian and the judge allegedly keeping the guardianship in place. “I need them to ... get off my neck. I can’t do it with these two people again. I can’t.”

She added: “I need a new guardian and then I’ll get out of [guardianship].”

“The View” was the latest to hear from Williams after she was hospitalized last week. New York police confirmed to The Times that officers on March 10 responded to a welfare check at the 500 block of West 35 Street. That’s the address for the assisted living facility where Williams reportedly dropped a handwritten note pleading for help out a window.

Police confirmed to The Times that “EMS responded and transported a 60-year-old female to an area hospital for evaluation.” TMZ published video of Williams, 60, arm in arm with an officer as police escorted her to an ambulance. A day later, Williams called multiple TV and radio shows about her latest headlines. She touted the positive results of her mental evaluations to “Good Day New York” host and friend Rosanna Scotto and joked off claims that she is incapacitated in her latest call into “The Breakfast Club.” Her interview with “The View” on Friday was no different.

“I sound like me. I’m finally out. I’m finally able to speak,” Williams told the hosts.

She added: “I wish I was allowed to actually put on nice clothing and come see you in person, but I cannot.”

In the recent streak of revelations from Williams, several stand out. Here’s a refresher of the twists and turns that led to them, from financial concerns to the appointment of the guardian allegedly overseeing her restrictive care.

Williams presented several throughlines in her conversations with the press this week, including assertions that challenged narratives about her allegedly diminished mental capacity.

In the past, the former radio shock jock was open with the public about her physical health. On-air during the “Wendy Williams Show,” the host informed fans how her Graves’ disease and lymphedema diagnosis affected her appearance and physicality. But in 2024, years after her series ran its course, a major reveal about her mental capacity came down without so much as a word from Williams. 

Representatives announced in a news release that Williams was diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the same affliction that led action star Bruce Willis to retire from Hollywood. Later in 2024, Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey claimed in legal filings that the former TV host had become “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated” by her dementia. Williams, who spoke out against those claims in January, said this week she has test results to prove otherwise.

She recalled her recent hospital visit to “The Breakfast Club,” telling its co-hosts that she did various tests to evaluate her competency. Williams explained that she was asked simple things including her date of birth and the identity of the current United States president.

“Oh please, he’s a friend of mine who was on the show and also beyond,” Williams told the “Breakfast Club” regarding the latter. She seemingly referred to President Trump, who appeared on her talk show multiple times.

Williams told “Good Day New York” anchor and friend Scotto that she passed her tests “with flying colors.”

Additionally, Williams alleged she is confined in the memory unit of her luxury living facility, where monthly care rates begin at $13,200. She asserted that other people living on the same floor are much older than her and, unlike herself, have issues with their memory. Williams also told “Good Day New York” she is “not allowed to go outside” and that she only has access to a landline since her guardian “has been having my phone for years now.”

Throughout her recent interviews, Williams seemed careful not to identify her guardian by name, instead calling her “the guardian” and “my guardian person.” On Friday, Williams confidently asserted on “The View”: “I don’t want a guardian. I don’t want Sabrina period.”

Elsewhere on Williams’ recent press streak, caregiver and healthcare advocacy executive Ginalisa Monterroso accused the star’s guardian of playing “Jedi mind games” with the narratives about the host’s condition.

“She really just wanted the world to believe that Wendy was incapacitated,” Monterroso said Tuesday on “The Breakfast Club.”

Monterroso added: “Her big mistake was she didn’t realize who Wendy Williams was. She has a platform like ‘Breakfast Club’ and she’s very well connected, and there are people who will back her up.”

How did the guardian come into the picture?

Sabrina Morrissey is an attorney with New York-based firm Morrissey & Morrissey, LLP, which specializes in estate planning, administration and litigation and, yes, guardianship. Morrissey is “passionate about representing elderly clients and protecting them from fraud and abuse,” according to her online profile.

In the months before the lackluster end of “The Wendy Williams Show” in 2022, Wells Fargo requested, and eventually established, a guardianship over the host citing fears of financial abuse. Morrissey was assigned to Williams’ case but wasn’t too familiar with the purveyor of petty, according to a report by Vanity Fair.

Williams told “The View” she was initially open to the guardianship with the impression that it would help her protect her finances. Williams alleged in a February interview with TMZ that her adult son “overstepped his boundaries” and “was inappropriately using my money without telling me crap about it.” He had previously denied those allegations in 2023.

New York courts sealed legal documents pertaining to Williams’ guardianship proceedings, but Morrissey’s role became public knowledge in February 2024 amid the premiere of the Lifetime docuseries “Where Is Wendy Williams?” The series explores her life under guardianship which has largely cut her off from her family. The four-part docuseries also gave an inside look at Williams’ struggles with sobriety.

Williams’ FTD and aphasia diagnoses were not the only clouds looming over the release of “Where is Wendy Williams?” Days before the premiere, Morrissey sued Lifetime parent company A+E Networks and production company Entertainment One (also known as eOne) and filed a temporary restraining order to keep the docuseries from hitting airwaves. A judge denied her request and decided the project could air as intended.

Morrissey has alleged, among several other accusations, that the Lifetime project (on which Williams served as an executive producer) “exploits [Williams’] medical condition to portray her in a humiliating, degrading manner and in a false light,” according to legal documents. In a February 2024 interview with The Times, “Where Is Wendy Williams?” executive producer Mark Ford said, “We never would have brought this story to air if we didn’t think it would have a positive ending for Wendy, her family and the world at large.”

As litigation over the docuseries continued, Morrissey made more claims about Williams’ health, including that she was “permanently incapacitated” and could not consent to being filmed. Those allegations were “meritless,” the series’ team said in a November countersuit against Morrissey. The producing team also claimed it was unaware of Williams’ dementia diagnosis “until near completion of the documentary.” 

The Times has learned “Where Is Wendy Williams?” is unavailable to stream due to litigation. Proceedings in this case are currently on hold pending another neurological evaluation of Williams.

Morrissey did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for comment on Williams’ recent allegations.

The #FreeWendy Movement

Williams has publicly decried the alleged terms of her guardianship for months now — and she isn’t alone.

Williams’ niece Alex Finnie has been a staunch and vocal advocate for the host’s release. Finnie, who also appeared in the Lifetime documentary, has in recent years openly criticized her aunt’s guardianship. “The longer she’s under this guardianship, the longer they have the keys to her life,” Finnie told “The Breakfast Club” in January, “her personal, her financial, emotional ... everything.”

Finnie also touts the #FreeWendy tag on social media, a nod to the growing movement calling for Williams’ release from her guardianship. As part of the #FreeWendy movement, supporters created GoFundMe and Change.org petition pages and took to social media to amplify Williams’ claims about her guardianship. In videos shared to the Change.org petition (which says it has verified more than 25,000 signatories), supporters co-signed claims about Williams’ independence and allegations about her isolation. Morrissey denied several claims in Vanity Fair about her allegedly restrictive guardianship over Williams. She said, “Nobody’s saying that Wendy can’t leave a building” and that it was Williams who decided not to split her twin cats and go petless in her facility, which the talk show host mentioned on “The Breakfast Club” in January.

Some supporters also took to social media to contemplate whether race plays into Williams’ guardianship. “Two white women have taken conservatorship over a self-made Black woman’s empire,” one X (formerly Twitter) user remarked in February 2024. The post shared photos of Morrissey and the New York judge overseeing the guardianship.

Williams’ public revelations last week have only further galvanized the #FreeWendy force, as some supporters laud her “flawless” interview with “The View” and observe that she “sounds absolutely fine.”

What’s next for Williams?

Williams made it clear to “The View” on Friday: “At this point in my life, I wanna terminate the guardianship and move on with my life if that’s possible at all.”

Monterroso, amid Williams’ hospitalization, told “Good Day New York” that she reached out to New York Police Department and Adult Protective Services requesting an investigation into the host’s guardianship. Despite this, Williams said she’s concerned the judge and Morrissey might come down harder on her for speaking out amid pending legal proceedings.

“It makes me very, very nervous,” she told TMZ on Wednesday before admitting, “I don’t know what could be tighter than where I am.”

Shortly after that interview, the strict restrictions of Williams’ New York living facility — and Morrissey’s claims that Williams can come and go as she pleases — came into question again. The facility reportedly filed a police report accusing Finnie of allegedly evading staff to take her aunt out of the building for dinner, according to TMZ. Williams and Finnie denied the “unbelievable” allegations. A day after the alleged incident, paparazzi spotted Williams out and about on a motorized scooter.

While on “The View,” Williams announced she will continue living her life alcohol-free and looked forward to a new chapter free of an allegedly oppressive guardianship. “It’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo,” she said.

And when it does, the “fabulous purple chair” from which she dished on celebrities on “The Wendy Williams Show” will be there with her too.

“It’s in storage, but when it comes out of storage I’m keeping it with me for my life. It will definitely be in my new apartment.”

A legal representative for Williams did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for additional comment.

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By Emily Trainham 

Wendy Williams appeared on "The View" this morning to defend herself against claims that she is mentally incapacitated.

The former talk show host, who has been under a court-appointed guardianship since 2022, spoke to the show via phone about why she made the decision to undergo a competency test this week, which she'd previously said she'd passed with "flying colors."

"I needed a breath of fresh air. I needed to see the doctor, so that’s why I went to the hospital," she told the hosts of "The View" about the independent evaluation.

She added, "It was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation, which I don’t have it. How dare they say I have incapacitation. I do not."

Williams, who has been living in the memory care unit of an assisted living facility for nearly a year, was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday. In the facility, she claimed that she's not allowed to have visitors, and that she typically stays in her bedroom. She said she's not permitted to leave her floor of the facility.

Host Sunny Hostin shared that the show had received a statement from the care facility's legal team that she hadn't been kept from her family and has received excellent medical care, which Williams continued to deny.

The former "Wendy Williams Show" host also complained about her guardian and the judge involved in her case, saying, "I need them . . . to get off my neck. I can't do it with these two people again."

"I don’t want a guardian . . . It’s been over three years, it’s time for my money and my life to get back to status quo," she insisted.

Williams, along with her caregiver, Ginalisa Monterroso, explained that the guardianship was first put into place in 2022 after her bank froze her account after noticing some unusual spending. She agreed to being appointed a guardian, because she believed the arrangement could help her get her finances under control, but soon afterward, she says the guardian took control of her life.

"At this point in my life, I want to terminate the guardianship and move on with my life, if that's possible at all," she said. 

Earlier this week, Williams was taken to a hospital after a 911 call was made to her assisted care facility in New York.

"On Monday, March 10, 2025 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.

One day after being rushed to a New York hospital, she spoke with Rosanna Scotto on a live segment of "Good Day New York" to discuss the outcome of her competency tests, which she says she'd requested herself.

Williams said she passed her tests with "flying colors."

"Everybody knows factually that Wendy is not incapacitated," Monterrosa, who was also present during that interview, told Scotto.

During an appearance on "The Breakfast Club" that same morning, Williams further explained why she had pleaded to go to a medical facility and be 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 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 that 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."

Earlier this year, Williams denied that 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 that 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 that she had been diagnosed with both progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

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Just when Wendy Williams was supposed to be getting ready for her return to daytime television later this week (more on that later), she’s instead having to deal with a trip to the hospital. But don’t be alarmed...it’s not for the reason you might think.

As we previously told you, thanks to her persistent outcries and subsequent action by her court-appointed guardian Sabrina Morrissey, Williams was set to undergo another medical evaluation to determine whether or not she she has frontotemporal dementia. That diagnosis is the one the very things that caused her to be remanded to an assisted living facility in New York City for the last three years that she previously described as a “prison.”  

Now, on Monday (March 10), it appears as if she’s finally had her tests as police were spotted outside of her facility were seen escorting her from her facility to Lenox Hill Hospital for the evaluations. In videos captured by TMZ, Williams was mostly quiet as she dodged questions about how she was feeling and her upcoming interview on “The View” on Friday. ABC announced the news that she’d be coming onto the show as a guest via telephone over the weekend.

This sighting also comes just after two local agencies were reported to be looking into Williams’ guardianship. The first agency was Adult Protective Services who reportedly had an interview with Williams and her niece Alex Finnie, according to TMZ. The New York Police Department also pulled up on Williams prior to them escorting her to her appointment to do a welfare check on her and her condition.

Per ABC News, two officers and a sergeant showed up to the facility in response to a 911 call of a woman in distress. However, when they arrived, Williams was reportedly calm and was able to walk with the officers and out of the building.

If the results of Williams’ second evaluation prove that she isn’t suffering from dementia—this could call the legal validity of the guardianship into question as Morrissey was only taking over things due to Williams’ alleged failing mental state. Moreover, if those results are brought in front of the judge and the guardianship is finally called off, this could be the start of a long-awaited comeback for Williams.

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The NYPD and Adult Protective Services are investigating Wendy Williams’ guardianship after performing a wellness check at her adult care facility in Manhattan on Monday that ended with her hospitalization.

Police responded to the assisted living facility around 11:16 a.m. They determined that Williams did not need any help but remained at the scene as EMTs arrived and Williams threw notes out a window to the assembled press.

The city’s Adult Protective Services is also looking into the circumstances of Williams’ stay at the facility, where she is reportedly in a memory unit and barred from leaving, according to TMZ.

She was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital for an independent cognitive examination around 2 p.m., the gossip site reported.

Williams’ guardian claimed last November that the former talk show host was “permanently incapacitated” due to her dementia diagnosis. She was diagnosed with primary aggressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia about a year after being placed under a legal guardianship and put in a care facility in 2022.

In a January interview on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, Williams said she is “not cognitively impaired, no, but I feel like I am in prison.”

Last month, Williams made a legal filing to have the guardianship ended and has vowed to go to a jury trial if necessary. She has previously complained she is not suffering from any health issues and that her diagnosis was made in bad faith.

ABC reported on Sunday that Williams will give a phone interview on “The View” later this week.

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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 made an appearance on "The Breakfast Club" to explain 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 during Tuesday's episode.

Williams' caretaker, Ginalisa 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.

Speaking with Rosanna Scotto on a live segment of "Good Day New York" on Tuesday, Williams said she is currently in the hospital and passed her tests with "flying colors."

"Everybody knows factually that Wendy is not incapacitated," Monterrosa told Scotto.

"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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Talk show host Wendy Williams has been under a court-appointed guardianship since May 2022

By Tracy Wright 

Wendy Williams was taken to the hospital after officials responded to a 911 call at her assisted living facility in New York, Fox News Digital confirmed.

"On Monday, March 10, 2025 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.

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."

Williams has been under a court-appointed order since May 2022.

"I’m in this place where the people are in their 90s and their 80s and their 70s," she said on the radio program. "There’s something wrong with these people here on this floor." 

Williams said she was under extreme supervision at the care facility and could make outgoing calls, but people were not allowed to call her.

"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, the former talk show host's team announced she'd been diagnosed with both progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

"Over the past few years, questions have been raised at times about Wendy's ability to process information and many have speculated about Wendy's condition, particularly when she began to lose words, act erratically at times, and have difficulty understanding financial transactions," the statement said.

"In 2023, after undergoing a battery of medical tests, Wendy was officially diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Aphasia, a condition affecting language and communication abilities, and frontotemporal dementia, a progressive disorder impacting behavior and cognitive functions, have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy's life."

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Wendy Williams Removed from Assisted Living Facility by NYPD, Taken to Hospital in Ambulance

The New York Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that Williams was transported to the hospital after they conducted a wellness check on Monday, March 10

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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!!”

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.

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.

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