Wendy Williams wants to set the record straight.
The former talk show host—who has been in a court-ordered guardianship under conservator Sabrina Morrissey since 2022—was removed from her assisted living facility and escorted to the hospital March 10, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to E! News.
One day later, the 60-year-old called into Good Day New York, along with her caretaker Gina Monterrosa, from the hospital to deny claims that she is cognitively impaired once and for all.
“I passed with flying colors,” Wendy said, alleging that she received mental competency tests while at the hospital. She then told Gina to “elaborate on everything, and I’ll just cosign.”
Confirming that Wendy “had those tests,” Gina noted, “She’s been deemed she is not incapacitated.”
As for why Wendy—whose care team shared her diagnoses of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia last February—said she chose to flag down help rather than wait to be tested at her facility? When host Rosanna Scotto asked if it was due to her distrust of court-ordered testing, Wendy replied, “Absolutely.”
“I want [to be] independently tested,” she explained, “and that is what I want, and that is what I got.”
And with the alleged test results as proof, Gina expressed hope that they would help free Wendy from her conservatorship.
“These independent results,” she said, “this is from a hospital, a very well-known hospital. It’s independent. It’s factual. I would be very disappointed, and I would be very concerned, if the judge has an issue with those tests.”
Because ultimately, Wendy said that “getting out of guardianship” is her “number one most important thing.”
Indeed, her morning show appearance comes two months after she detailed the alleged abuse she has faced amid her conservatorship, going as far as calling her New York City facility a “luxury prison.”
“I am not cognitively impaired,” she insisted while calling into The Breakfast Club to speak with former cohost Charlamagne, plus DJ Envy and guest host Loren LaRosa in February. “But I feel like I’m in prison.”
And her niece Alex Finnie was there to vouch for just how “trapped” her aunt felt, alleging that she was “being denied her freedoms.”
“She is being held, and she is being punished,” Alex said in the joint interview, “for whatever reason that other people are coming up with as to why she has to be kept in this position.”
Along with saying that the facility prevents Wendy from roaming freely, the two went on to allege that the facility prevented her friends and family from visiting her, along with restricting her phone so that she cannot receive calls or access the internet.
And ultimately, they said it was all due to her guardian’s claim that Wendy “has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitate,” as stated in a November legal filing.
“It’s almost as if she doesn’t want my aunt to show that she’s healthy and independent,” Alex said of Sabrina. “Because as we know about these guardianships and as my aunt has said, the system’s broken. The longer she’s under this guardianship, the longer they have the keys to her life.”
A lawyer repping Sabrina has since, in a March 11 letter to TMZ, labelled the claims being covered in the media “untrue, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading.”
E! News has reached out to Sabrina Morrissey and the NYPD for comment and has not heard back.
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