Wendy Williams Was transported urgently to the hospital to undergo a cognitive assessment, a few days after provoking desperate concerns of fans’ help.
In the midst of her battle of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, William remained in an assisted life center, which she often compared to a “prison”.
Wendy Williams is trying to end her tutelage, of which she has been for more than two years, and would like to obtain the services of the lawyer Joe Tacopina.
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Wendy Williams undergoes a test to determine her mental capacities
Williams was unexpectedly rushed outside his assisted life center on Monday to undergo a cognitive assessment at Lenox Hill hospital.
The former talk show animator received a diagnosis of dementia and frontotemporal aphasia in 2023 before her care team announced that she had received a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2024 “after having undergone a battery of medical tests”.
According to the Daily mailShe was brought to an ambulance and will take a medical examination to determine if she is sufficient to put an end to her tutelage.
Around 11:15 am that morning, she apparently aroused worries after dropping a note to the paparazzi from her fifth floor room, who would have read “Help! Wendy !!”
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His family believes that “this is the beginning of the end of this nightmare”
A family source shared that this decision is considered a relief for the former host of “Wendy Williams Show” because it considers medical intervention as a rescue effort.
“The family has been waiting for many years for many years,” said a source at the News Outlet. “This is the beginning of the end of this nightmare. Wendy is so grateful to her family and friends who fought so difficult to put an end to all of this. Those who are responsible will be responsible.”
Another source told Tmz That a “caregiver not associated with the supervision” ordered Williams’ trip and test in the midst of concerns about his confined lifestyle.
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Wendy Williams’ fight to end the guardianship
The day talk show host is trying to end her tutelage commanded by the court for several years and would have thought that she has the man for the post in the legal magician Joe Tacopina.
Tacopina confirmed that Williams had contacted her during her appearance as a guest on the 2 angry men Podcast with Harvey and Mark Geragos.
He expressed his disdain for his life arrangement, declaring in particular that the murderers have more freedom than the personality of legendary television.
While the show continued, Harvey received an SMS from someone from the Williams camp asking him to take a look at a Vanity Article in which Williams goalkeeper Sabrina Morrissey spoke.
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The report apparently bored her when he read one of the quotes from Morrissey who said: “No one says that Wendy can not leave a building,” noting how she was able to go twice to Florida: once for her son’s university degree and a second time for her father’s birthday.
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The former animator of talk show claims that she lives in a “prison”
In a recent telephone conversation with the co-album of “Nightline” Byron Pitts, Williams spoke of her state of life at the New York care center where she was staying, comparing it to a “prison”.
“How are I going? I’m still in prison, so to speak,” she told Pitts, by ABC News. “As I said, because it is a fact, it is the unity of memory. This is what this floor is called, the unity of memory. And it is true that these people who live here do not remember anything.”
She added: “Listen, I don’t belong to it at all. It’s ridiculous.” Elsewhere during their conversation, Williams also criticized reports of his sick health with dementia.
“Frontotemporal dementia? Uh, how do you dare. And I don’t tell you, because I was accused of having this,” said Williams. “And how do you prove it, keeping me locked up here so you can’t … I can’t see, look. I can’t go out.”
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Wendy Williams disputes the claims of her legal tutor
Williams has lived under legal supervision that has supervised his finances and health since 2022.
She continuously challenged her goalkeeper appointed by the court, Morrissey, says that this suggests that she is “with cognitive clumsiness, permanently disabled and legally incapable”.
“I have no cognitive clumsiness, but I feel like I am in prison,” Williams said in breakfast in January. “I am in this place with people who are in the 90s and 80s and their 70s … These people, there is something that is not going with these people here on this floor. I am not clear.”
She also explained that the elevators of the establishment are locked, visitors are limited and that it is unable to come and come as it appeals, while adding that it did not know the drugs that installation administers.
