A brand new documentary takes a dive into the lifetime of Wendy Williams because the decline of her well being. The discuss present host is presently being held in a well being facility. Up to now, she’s says it’s been a “suffocating” expertise.
In Tubi’s newest documentary, “TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy Williams,” the discuss present hosts spoke with the outlet about life behind the partitions of a long-term care facility. Williams mentioned she’s been “remoted” there for the previous yr.
“The place I’m is that this place the place the individuals are older. You understand what I’m saying? They’re of their 90s [and] 80s. They name this the reminiscence unit. I’m a part of the reminiscence unit. A reminiscence unit, in different phrases, what? Someone who doesn’t keep in mind crap,” Williams mentioned within the documentary.
Williams additionally mentioned she typically eats lunch and dinner in her room versus consuming with the opposite residents as a result of it’s so “goddamn miserable,” including that residing there’s “suffocating.” She additional informed TMZ within the documentary that she had little to no entry to expertise aside from the room telephone and a tv.
She mentioned she’s been asking for an iPad however to no avail and in addition can’t have her cellphone to name associates or household. They will’t even come to go to her, she mentioned.
To TMZ’s query of how a lot recent air she’s gotten up to now 30 days, Williams responded that she’d solely gone outdoors twice and for dental care. Elevating additional alarm about her residing circumstances, TMZ captured a video of Williams standing within the window of the power room together with her hand pressed towards glass, apparently crying whereas speaking on a telephone.
Her new residing association comes after court-appointed guardian Sabrina Morrissey was tasked to spearhead her private and monetary affairs again in 2022. Morrissey beforehand said Williams had a proper analysis of frontotemporal dementia and first progressive aphasia by docs at Weill Cornell Medical Heart, per PEOPLE. Court docket filings label Williams as “legally incapacitated” which led to Morrissey’s appointment to supervise her affairs.
Although Williams denied the analysis, she holds little energy over her personal life now. She informed TMZ within the documentary that Morrissey prefers she keep below the intense restrictions as a substitute of be capable to reside a standard life.
“All I do know is that she doesn’t need me to do this, and that’s a truth. And I would like my life again,” Williams mentioned within the documentary.
As of now, Morrissey requested the court docket to order Williams to a different medical analysis to evaluate whether or not she truly has the dementia analysis that landed her within the facility, citing Williams’ feedback to the “The Breakfast Membership” the place she denied claims of dementia.
If issues go in her favor, Williams is likely to be dwelling free from her guardianship.