The 2024 Lifetime documentary, “The place is Wendy Williams?” gave followers a glimpse inside Wendy Williams’ life residing beneath the care of a court-appointed guardian since she stepped away from her purple chair in 2022. However since that two-part collection aired, it’s been some time since we’ve heard from the straight-talking speak present host herself. That modified this morning when she sat for a revealing interview with journalist Don Lemon.
However earlier than we get to all of the tea, we obtained an opportunity to talk solely with Don Lemon after his interview to get his tackle how he thinks Williams is doing today.
When requested if he believed Williams’ situation was as dangerous as her guardian desires us to imagine, Lemon mentioned he believes that’s one thing her followers can determine.
“The query now, is does ‘Free Wendy’ turn out to be the brand new trending factor like ‘Free Britney?’ I believe solely the general public can reply that. The opposite query is does Wendy appear lucid? Does she appear incapacitated? We don’t know. And we don’t know if this guardian is defending her in opposition to one thing. Nobody is aware of. So I believe there must be transparency round this course of. There must be extra transparency round it as a result of you may truly maintain somebody hostage. I’m not saying the guardian is doing that as a result of I haven’t spoken to them.”
Lemon mentioned that from his standpoint, Williams appeared to be lucid throughout their chat, including that he believes she deserves to be residing with people who find themselves appearing in her finest curiosity.
“Does Wendy sound like the identical Wendy once I was on her present? Truthfully, no. Does Wendy sound just like the Wendy who visited me and stayed with me throughout COVID? No. However to me, does Wendy sound lucid? Sure. And that’s from a layman’s standpoint. Can she be answerable for her funds? I don’t know. However I believe a course of will be labored out that’s truthful to all events, and somebody wants to determine how to do this as a result of Wendy, whether or not she’s incapacitated or not, deserves to stay her life with a point of autonomy and happiness round her household.”
Now, on to Don Lemon’s unique interview with Wendy.
Lemon instructed viewers he first obtained to know Williams as a frequent visitor on her present and commenced filling in for her for a time when her well being points compelled her to step away from work. However the pair obtained nearer as Williams frolicked at Lemon’s residence throughout the COVID pandemic. It was then that she began sharing a number of the points she was having together with her now ex-husband Kevin Hunter.
“That’s how she began sharing with me about how she felt,” Lemon mentioned on his January 16 present. “She actually didn’t have lots of people to speak to, in order that’s why I kind of befriended Wendy.”
Wendy Williams: “I Really feel Like I’m in Jail”
Lemon’s interview obtained off to a scary begin when Williams didn’t name at their agreed begin time of seven:30 am – one thing that triggered her niece, Alex Finnie, who additionally referred to as in to Lemon’s present, to fret that somebody had taken her telephone away.
When Williams and Lemon lastly linked, she shared that even her telephone shouldn’t be her personal today.
“My telephone is with the guardian individual. The telephone that we’re speaking on is a telephone the place I can name you, however you may’t name me. I’ve by no means heard of a telephone like this in my life,” she defined.
Williams went on to say that within the three years that she’s been beneath the watch of her guardian, she’s been largely remoted from family and friends, even consuming meals alone in mattress whereas watching tv.
“My life is ridiculous. I’ve been with this guardian individual for 3 years,” Williams mentioned. “I really feel remoted. I really feel like I’m in jail. I can’t exit. All I can do is look out the window and anytime I am going out, I’m going with the individual the guardian has assigned to me.”
And whereas most individuals imagine she’s residing in an expensive New York residence, she confirmed that she’s residing with individuals of their 70s, 80s and 90s.
“This isn’t an residence. I don’t even know what you name this place. That is an previous age residence,” she mentioned.
What Is Wendy Scared About?
When Lemon requested Williams to verify her guardian’s assertion that she was incapacitated and has dementia, she responded “Hell f*ing no!” however mentioned she couldn’t go into far more element for concern she’d be separated from her household without end.
“I don’t understand how a lot I can speak with out being punished, and I received’t have the ability to see my dad and I received’t have the ability to do something and I’ll be caught on this jail for the remainder of my life.”
Niece Alex Finnie chimed in confirming lots of the particulars about Williams situation that she shared in her January 16 interview with Charlamagne Tha God on “The Breakfast Membership,” including that rather a lot nonetheless can’t be shared for concern of authorized retaliation.
“My aunt desires to speak. She desires to get her messaging on the market, nevertheless it has turn out to be extraordinarily troublesome as a result of she must be so cautious with what she says as a result of there may be this fear, there may be this concern that A, she’s going to say the flawed factor and B, there may be some kind of retaliation because of that,” Finnie instructed Lemon.
Wendy Desires to Get Again To Work
Williams ended the interview by saying she thinks the perfect place for her to stay and work proper now could be in Florida together with her household. However provides that she desires to work on her personal phrases.
“I don’t wish to work 5 days per week. I wish to choose and select what sort of work I wish to do as a result of that’s the sort of individual I’m now,” she mentioned.
Lemon’s interview has shortly gone viral, receiving over 110,000 views as Williams’ followers depart messages of assist on his YouTube channel.
“Wendy sounds superb. She must be together with her household. Set her free!!!!” wrote somebody within the feedback.