Wendy Williams begs medical guardian to 'get off my neck' as she insists she's not mentally incapacitated

Wendy Williams' team has said she was diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023

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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Madison County Man Faces Charges of Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults

MADISON COUNTY – A Jackson businessman has been indicted and arrested, following a joint investigation by special agents with the TBI Medicaid Fraud Control Division, the U.S. Marshals Service, and investigators with the Jackson Police Department.

In July 2024, following a referral from Adult Protect Services, authorities began investigating allegations of financial exploitation of vulnerable adults who were in the care of a Jackson homecare facility.  During the course of the investigation, agents developed information that the owner of the company, Antonio Juan White, was responsible for taking unauthorized life insurance policies out on dozens of persons in his care, listing himself as the beneficiary.

On March 3, 2025, the Madison County Grand Jury returned indictments charging Antonio White (DOB 06/29/1979) with 35 counts of Financial Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult. White was arrested in Jackson on March 4^th and booked into the Madison County Jail.

The charges and allegations referenced in this release are merely accusations of criminal conduct and not evidence. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and convicted through due process of law.

NOTE: The TBI’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $10,782,912 for federal Fiscal Year 2024-2025. The remaining 25 percent, totaling $3,594,302 for Fiscal Year 2024-2025, is funded by the State of Tennessee.

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Missouri couple charged with financial exploitation of elderly veteran, accused of selling home

 A Missouri couple has been charged with financial exploitation of an elderly veteran, accused of withdrawing funds and selling his home without his knowledge, according to court documents.

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Betrayed by Ho$pice and Healthcare: Stories from the Deathbed

by Marsha Joiner

Imagine your Mom is fixing her hair and putting on lipstick on Sunday and two days later, she is in a drug induced coma. Hospice says it is the dying process, but she wasn't dying when the toxic drugs were started with no knowledge or consent. You are denied taking her to a hospital for help and she dies.

Or what if your Dad spilt coffee on himself and is taken to hospice respite facility for a shower and is dead in two days?

Or your husband goes to the hospital for dehydration and is given a diuretic and dies from dehydration and a drug overdose, arriving home in a coma with a bloody mouth, and his gold tooth was ripped out?

These are just a tip of the iceberg of the true stories in this book. We will all die one day but it should be when it is your time and not when someone else decides your life is of no value. Everyone should have the right to write their last chapter.

This book is an eye opener exposing the truth of hospice and sheds light that healthcare philosophy changed from meeting patient's needs to meeting society's needs. What you read in this book may save your life. It is a must read before family members blindly trust what the medical and hospice industry say. They are a multibillion-dollar industry and it's all about money. The government saves money, the medical facilities and staff make money, and your loved one pays the highest price with their life.

This book will answer questions you never thought to ask. For example, did you know a drug overdose has the same symptoms of someone dying, because now they are dying? You will see the dark reality of what happens behind closed doors of an organization that is to 'do no harm' and is supposed to provide compassionate care. There is a wealth of information and research put in one place for you to see the real dangers. Is it worth the risk not to find out before it's too late? I wish I had known what I know now and saved my own Mother. Knowledge is power.

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Hospice worker accused of exploiting patient, steals $7K

by Skyler Shepard

On March 7, deputies arrested the 57-year-old woman, who now faces exploitation of an elderly person, fraudulent use of personal information, grand theft, fraudulent use of a credit card, and uttering a forged instrument. (HCSO)

TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) — A hospice worker is accused of financially exploiting a hospice patient under her care.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) said deputies responded to a delayed fraud report on March 4 on Clubhouse Circle, where the victim, receiving hospice care, reported being defrauded by a home health assistant.

The sheriff's office said the fraudulent activity reportedly began on January 28. The suspect, identified as Shawn Livingston, allegedly persuaded the victim to use Zelle for service payments and manipulated the transactions to transfer money to her accounts, pay her creditors, and make payments to Carnival Cruises, stealing more than $7,000.

"The actions of this individual are unacceptable and despicable. Preying on a hospice patient, someone who relies on others for care and support, is a heartless and disgraceful betrayal," said Sheriff Chad Chronister.

On March 7, deputies arrested the 57-year-old woman, who now faces exploitation of an elderly person, fraudulent use of personal information, grand theft, fraudulent use of a credit card, and uttering a forged instrument.

"We are committed to protecting our most vulnerable residents," said Sheriff Chronister. "Let this serve as a clear message: this kind of abuse has no place in our community, and we will do everything possible to bring those responsible to justice."

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Wendy Williams Hospitalized Amid Battle Over Guardianship, But It's Not What You Think

The daytime talk show host has been embroiled in this fight for years, but she just might be getting closer to freedom.

By Shanelle Genai 

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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Wendy Williams hospitalized amid guardianship investigation

By David Matthews

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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San Diego’s CARE Court Is Serving Those Formerly in Conservatorships

CARE Court supporters pitched it as a solution for people with serious untreated psychotic disorders. San Diego’s program is also serving people exiting involuntary treatment.

 

by Lisa Halverstadt

Judge Kimberlee Lagotta, who led San Diego Superior Court's CARE Court implementation, and county Behavioral Health Services Director Luke Bergmann during the CARE Act program press conference at the County Administration building in downtown on Sept. 27, 2023. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler

San Diego County’s rollout of CARE Court hasn’t been what many expected – not even the author of the legislation that created the program. 

Proponents touted CARE Court as a way to get thousands of people with untreated psychotic disorders into treatment through court-ordered plans. San Diego County officials, however, have held back from forcing people into treatment and instead made the program voluntary. Not only that, but officials have also tapped into another group for CARE Court participation: people already in the strictest level of forced treatment. 

Twenty-one percent of the 105 voluntary care agreements reached since the county’s program kicked off October 2023 were with people leaving conservatorships, according to county data.  

Conservatorships are considered a step up from CARE Court because they institute involuntary treatment and take away individuals’ decision-making power on their living arrangements and other matters. 

The county and state officials said the law allows for CARE Court to serve as a step-down option.  

They say it’s a tool to help people exiting conservatorships transition from forced care with the benefit of more support and oversight that can help them maintain stability. 

But others, including the author of CARE Court legislation, said they didn’t expect the new court system to be used this way.  

“That wasn’t part of the plan,” said state Sen. Tom Umberg of Santa Ana. 

County officials decided CARE Court was a useful tool to help people already in conservatorships avoid another round of involuntary treatment and that this matched the legislation’s overarching goal to minimize conservatorships. 

Amber Irvine, program manager of San Diego’s CARE Court program, said CARE Court can help people at a high risk of decompensating avoid returning to a conservatorship. 

“(Some patients) need to have this safety net of intensive treatments to step down to and having that court oversight piece to hold providers accountable for delivering those services,” Irvine said. 

Ann Carroll, a spokesperson for the state Department of Health Care Services, also described the conservatorship step-downs into CARE Court as an “appropriate application of the law” that prioritizes connecting patients with services in the least restrictive settings. 

Carroll and county officials separately noted a 2024 law authored by Umberg that they said clarified this. SB 42 allowed health care facilities to refer patients held on involuntary evaluation holds to CARE Court if they believe the person qualifies for this program rather than a conservatorship.  

Yet Umberg said he didn’t imagine counties would use CARE Court to aid conservatees preparing to exit those court-ordered arrangements. 

Umberg’s office also noted the California Department of Health and Human Services pushed for the legislative changes Carroll mentioned, though he agreed to them. An Umberg spokesperson said the senator may consider amending state law if he determines that most CARE enrollees are recent conservatees.  

For now, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Only a fraction of CARE enrollees in San Diego County are former conservatees. 

Still, the practice is catching stakeholders off guard. 

Attorney Samuel Jain of Disability Rights California, whose organization was one of the most prominent opponents of the CARE Act legislation, acknowledged he supported efforts to reintegrate San Diegans who had been conserved into their communities but didn’t expect that counties would do that with CARE Court. 

“It sounds like fitting a square peg into a round hole,” Jain said. “CARE Court wasn’t actually designed for this.” 

Officials with the San Diego Police Department, which has filed CARE petitions, fear the county’s approach could limit treatment access for others. 

“The CARE Act was not meant to just reduce conservatorships, it was meant to offer a lifeline for care to patients falling through the cracks in California’s mental health system,” read a statement sent by the department. 

Irvine said the county’s decision isn’t keeping anyone from accessing treatment in the program. 

“We do not have bandwidth issues,” Irvine said. 

Irvine argued that the county’s approach will minimize potential workload issues in the future because reaching care agreements with people stepping down from conservatorships can ensure they don’t experience gaps in treatment that could later require county outreach and support.  

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Wendy Williams says she passed competency test with ‘flying colors’ after being rushed to hospital

The talk show host, who has been under a court-appointed guardianship since 2022, was rushed to a New York hospital on March 10 after pleading for help

By Christina Dugan Ramirez 

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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