Wendy Williams talks about her life in a treatment facility.
In her first interview since the Lifetime bombshell documentary premiered in February 2024 — days after her team revealed she had been diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) — the former TV host opened up about her treatment of the controversial diagnosis. A source with the information confirmed to PEOPLE that Wendy is in a luxury nursing facility with 24-hour medical care.
Williams, 60, called in Breakfast Club to chat with DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God and guest host Loren LoRosa from her treatment facility.
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During the interview, Williams said she was not happy about being forced to take the medication – 7 pills a day – without being told why.
“Where I am, okay, you have to take the keys to unlock the door to press the elevator to go down. Second, these people here, they are all like babysitters so to speak. They come and give you pills and then you leave,” Williams said. “I took two pills all my life. There are seven pills, I have no idea what this pill does. I haven’t been with a person taking pills for a long time. To the point where, ‘Excuse me doctor, can you tell me what this pill is for?’ “Williams continued: “For the last three years, I’ve been caught up in the system. Three years have passed. I’m caught up in this system.”
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The former radio and television presenter was placed under court custody in 2022. The deal was set up after Wells Fargo froze her accounts because her financial advisor at the time claimed she was “of unsound mind,” PEOPLE previously reported. New York attorney Sabrina Morrissey was then appointed Williams’ legal guardian.
However, Williams’ family has since spoken out against Morrissey, questioning the guardianship and her enforcement of the legal order. Williams’ sister, Wanda Finnie, told PEOPLE last year that “everything was cut off” between the former TV personality and her family after the guardianship began in April 2022.
As recently as last summer, Williams’ family told PEOPLE that “they are unable to discuss her current condition and location due to the ongoing litigation and the fact that they have been largely denied contact.”
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Williams’ interview with the Breakfast Club was the first time she spoke openly about her dementia diagnosis, which her care team announced two days before the Lifetime documentary aired. Last November, PEOPLE reported that Morrissey alleged in a court filing that Williams became “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incompetent” as her alleged early-onset dementia progressed.
“Look, this system is broken, this system that I’m in,” Williams said during an interview Thursday with the Breakfast Club. “This system has faked a lot.”
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Williams’ niece, Alex Finnie, joined her aunt in the call and spoke out against the guardianship.
“This is reality. These were our lives. But specifically her life,” Williams’ niece said. “She can call us, but we can’t call her. It’s a reality from 2023. That room she’s sitting in, she’s there every day, at all hours of the day, every week, every month. It doesn’t get enough sunlight. I went to New York in October to visit her, and the level of security and the level of questioning that there was in terms of who I was, why I was here, what the purpose was, it was absolutely horrific.”
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